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Irish War of Independence, (1919–21), conflict that pitted Irish nationalists (republicans), who were pursuing independence from the United Kingdom for Ireland, against British security forces and Irish loyalists (unionists), who sought to preserve Ireland’s union with Great Britain.
The Irish War of Independence (Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse) [2] or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the ...
In the opening months of the war, violence was only sporadic and casualties were few. However, the conflict began to intensify towards the end of 1919, when the IRA launched a series of attacks on RIC barracks across southern Ireland.
Far from Estonia’s c.11,750 or Latvia’s c.13,246 dead in their independence wars, unlike Finland’s more than 36,000 casualties in less than four months of civil war, just over 2,300 died in the guerrilla war of independence fought by a poorly equipped IRA against police, British soldiers and auxiliary forces (1919–21), and c.1,500 in ...
This ongoing project seeks to identify all of the conflict-reated fatalities in County Cork during the War of Independence, the Truce period and the Civil War.
A detailed look at the Irish War of Independence, its causes, key figures, battles, and its impact on Ireland’s path to independence. Quick Read. The Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) was a struggle between Irish republicans and British forces over Irish sovereignty.
The trauma of death for civilians and protagonists alike in Cork left its deepest mark during the War of Independence, which accounted for 65 percent of conflict-related fatalities in the county during the Irish Revolution—the bulk of all fatalities.
The Irish War of Independence was a guerrilla conflict between the British state and its forces in Ireland and Irish republican guerrillas in the Irish Volunteers or Irish Republican Army. The war is usually said to have run between 1919 and 1921, but violence both preceded these dates and continued afterwards.
This is a timeline of the Irish War of Independence (or the Anglo-Irish War [1]) 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.
The Irish War of Independence was a guerrilla war, fought not on battlefields but in cities, towns and among civilian populations. Its fighting caused more than 2000 deaths, as well as extensive destruction and damage to infrastructure and private property.