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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 .
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 .
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 ...
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Downing Street Declaration – Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and British prime minister John Major signed a joint declaration by which they agreed on both the right of the people of the island of Ireland to self-determination, and that Northern Ireland would be transferred to the Republic of Ireland from the United Kingdom only if a majority ...
Timelines of post-Troubles paramilitary actions in Northern Ireland (7 P) Pages in category "Timelines of the Troubles (Northern Ireland)" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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[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]