Cumann na mBan

Cumann na mBan , abbreviated C na mB, is an <a href="/facts/Irish_republican/r260ddGy">Irish republican</a> women's paramilitary organisation formed in <a href="/facts/Dublin/Fv8ezm8a">Dublin</a> on 2 April 1914, merging with and dissolving <a href="/facts/Inghinidhe_na_h%C3%89ireann/IyAtbmfS">Inghinidhe na hÉireann</a>, and in 1916, it became an auxiliary of the <a href="/facts/Irish_Volunteers/CKEo6Qjx">Irish Volunteers</a>. Although it was otherwise an independent organisation, its executive was subordinate to that of the Irish Volunteers, and later, the Irish Republican Army.
Cumann na mBan was active in the <a href="/facts/Irish_War_of_Independence/mSVqcAEp">War of Independence</a> and took the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War. Cumann na mBan was declared an illegal organisation by the government of the <a href="/facts/Irish_Free_State/rjjaevUC">Irish Free State</a> in 1923. This was reversed when <a href="/facts/Fianna_F%C3%A1il/xte7pcVX">Fianna Fáil</a> came to power in 1932.
During the splits in the republican movement of the later part of the 20th century, <a href="/facts/Fianna_%C3%89ireann/f6P36pab">Fianna Éireann</a> and Cumann na mBan supported <a href="/facts/Provisional_Sinn_F%C3%A9in/u8zAndFX">Provisional Sinn Féin</a> in 1969 and <a href="/facts/Republican_Sinn_F%C3%A9in/EBKjy37w">Republican Sinn Féin</a> in 1986.

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