Joint Crisis Committee

Irish War of Independence

In the smoking shadow of the 1916 Easter Rising and amidst the grinding exhaustion of the Great War, the century-long struggle for Irish self-determination has reached an absolute boiling point. The traditional political consensus has completely fractured, giving way to an era of militant Republicanism, unyielding Ulster Unionist resistance, and a British imperial administration desperate to maintain domestic stability while fighting a total war on the European continent. Operating within the high-stakes, reactive environment of this era represents one side of a deeply polarized and volatile desperation. Every decision made must navigate the treacherous currents of secret intelligence, paramilitary mobilization, and high-stakes legislative maneuvering. With the calling of the Irish Convention, a fragile window for negotiation has opened, but the margins for error are non-existent. A single misstep will collapse the possibility of constitutional compromise and plunge the island into an all-out war for independence.