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The Irish authorities first detained the IRA's leaders below the Offences In opposition to the State Act and later launched internment for all IRA activists. Countess Markievicz, who was second-in-command of the Irish Citizen Army in the course of the Easter Rising. The British monarch continued to reign theoretically as "King of Eire", and was used as an "organ" in international and diplomatic relations, with the President of Eire relegated to symbolic functions inside the state however by no means outside it. It remained a dominion of the British Commonwealth and members of its parliament had to swear an oath of loyalty to the British monarch. The IRA was perceived by some members of Dáil Éireann to have a mandate to wage struggle on the British Dublin Castle administration. The Irish Republican Police (IRP) was based between April and June 1920, underneath the authority of Dáil Éireann and the former IRA Chief of Workers Cathal Brugha to substitute the RIC and to enforce the ruling of the Dáil Courts, set up underneath the Irish Republic.