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The burning of Cork (Irish: Dó Chorcaí) [1] [2] by British forces took place during the Irish War of Independence on the night of 11–12 December 1920. It followed an Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol in the city, which wounded twelve Auxiliaries, one fatally.
Historical copies of The Cork Examiner, dating back to 1841, are available to search and view in digitised form at the Irish Newspaper Archives website and British Newspaper Archive. [4] During the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War, the Cork Examiner (along with other nationalist newspapers) was subject to censorship and suppression ...
1920 – The Burning of Cork, Ireland, a fire set on December 11 by the British Auxiliaries in revenge after an ambush by the IRA destroyed much of the old city centre of Cork. 1921 – Tulsa Race Riot resulted in the destruction of 35 city blocks and 1,256 residences by arson. 1922 - The Fire of Manisa, Manisa, Greek Zone of Smyrna
Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-3002-6074-8. James S. Donnelly, Big House Burnings in County Cork during the Irish Revolution, 1920–21 Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Éire-Ireland (47: 3 & 4 Fall/Win 12); accessed ...
10 December – Martial law was declared in Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary. [3] 11 December – The Burning of Cork: British forces set fire to some 5 acres (20,000 m 2) of the centre of Cork City, including the City Hall, in reprisal attacks after a British auxiliary was killed in a guerrilla ambush. 23 December [3]
In 1940, 19 RNLI lifeboats were used to evacuate troops from Dunkirk.
11 December – Irish War of Independence: the Burning of Cork: British forces set fire to 5 acres (20,000 m 2) of the centre of the city of Cork, including the City Hall, in reprisal attacks after a British auxiliary is killed in a guerilla ambush.
[28] On 10 December, martial law was declared in response to the ambush in the counties of Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary. The next day, angered British forces burned sections of the city centre of Cork, preventing the city's fire brigade from putting out the fires for a period of time. Two IRA volunteers were shot dead while asleep, their ...