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The Rineen ambush was an ambush carried out by the Mid Clare Brigade of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 22 September 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. The attack took place at Drummin Hill in the townland of Drummin, near the hamlet of Rineen (or Rinneen), County Clare .
RIC and British Army trucks outside Limerick This is a timeline of the Irish War of Independence (or the Anglo-Irish War) of 1919–21. The Irish War of Independence was a guerrilla conflict and most of the fighting was conducted on a small scale by the standards of conventional warfare. Although there were some large-scale encounters between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the state ...
This is a timeline of Irish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Ireland. To read about the background to these events, see History of Ireland . See also the list of Lords and Kings of Ireland , alongside Irish heads of state , and the list of years in Ireland .
[4] [8] It was the first major reprisal of its kind, and caused more of British society to question the government's policy in Ireland. [13] Two days after the sacking, British forces carried out another reprisal for the Rineen ambush in County Clare, burning many houses in the surrounding villages and killing five civilians. [14]
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Republic of Ireland history timelines (2 C, 4 P) M. Irish military history timelines (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Irish history timelines" ... Timeline of the Troubles
Timeline of the Troubles in the Republic of Ireland; Timeline of the Troubles in Dublin; U. Timeline of U2 This page was last edited on 29 September 2024, at 13: ...
2009 reenactment of a Provisional IRA unit in Galbally, County Tyrone. Chronologies of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions detail activities by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.