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The conflict also involved civil disobedience, notably the refusal of Irish railwaymen to transport British forces or military supplies. In mid-1920, republicans won control of most county councils, and British authority collapsed in most of the south and west, forcing the British government to introduce emergency powers. About 300 people had ...
This is a chronological list of armed conflicts involving Ireland and the United Kingdom.Both sides have fought a total of 15 armed conflicts against each other, with 1 of them being an Irish victory, 12 of them being a British victory, 1 having another result and 1 being an internal conflict (civil war).
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 ...
31 March – In the second reading debate in the Parliament of the United Kingdom on the Government of Ireland Bill, Unionist leader Sir Edward Carson opposed the division of Ireland, seeing it as a betrayal of Unionists in the south and west. [4] 2 April – Canadian-born lawyer Sir Hamar Greenwood was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland.
The history of rail transport in Ireland began only a decade later than that of Great Britain.By its peak in 1920, Ireland had 3,500 route miles (5,630 km). The current status is less than half that amount, with a large unserviced area around the border area between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Boughey, Joseph. "From Transport's Golden Ages to an Age of Tourism: LTC Rolt, Waterway Revival and Railway Preservation in Britain, 1944–54." Journal of Transport History 34.1 (2013): 22-38. Boyes, Grahame, and Matthew Searle. "A Bibliography of the History of Inland Waterways, Railways and Road Transport in the British Isles, 2007."
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The Troubles of the 1920s was a period of conflict in what is now Northern Ireland from June 1920 until June 1922, during and after the Irish War of Independence and the partition of Ireland. It was mainly a communal conflict between Protestant unionists , who wanted to remain part of the United Kingdom , and Catholic Irish nationalists , who ...