The organisation was established as the Irish Amateur Fencing Federation (IAFF) in 1936, and remained under that title until 2008 when it was reconstituted as the Irish Fencing Federation; the current trading name was adopted in March 2016.
Fencing has been included in the Olympic Games since their modern-day inception in 1896 and the sport formally came to Ireland ten years later in 1906, when the Irish Fencing Club was founded in Dublin.