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The Irish War of Independence (Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse), [2] also known as the 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 Auxiliaries and Ulster Special ...
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 ...
Part of the First War of Scottish Independence: 1333–38 Burke Civil War: A conflict among the House of Burke: 1534 Kildare Rebellion: 1569–73 First Desmond Rebellion: Part of the Tudor conquest of Ireland: 1579–83 Second Desmond Rebellion: Part of the Tudor conquest of Ireland 1594–1603 Nine Years' War: Part of the Tudor conquest of ...
Battles of the Irish Civil War (4 P) Battles of the Irish Confederate Wars (1 C, 20 P) M. Military actions and engagements during the Irish War of Independence ...
The Crossbarry ambush, also known as the Battle of Crossbarry, occurred on 19 March 1921 and was one of the largest engagements of the Irish War of Independence.It took place near the small village of Crossbarry in County Cork, about 20 km south-west of Cork city.
This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Ireland and its predecessor states, since the Irish War of Independence.Since the 1930s, the state has had a policy of neutrality and has only been involved in conflicts as part of United Nations peacekeeping missions.
The Clonfin Ambush was an ambush carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 2 February 1921, during the Irish War of Independence.It took place in the townland of Clonfin (or Cloonfin) between Ballinalee and Granard in County Longford.
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann [2]) was an Irish republican revolutionary paramilitary organisation. The ancestor of many groups also known as the Irish Republican Army, and distinguished from them as the "Old IRA", it was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916. [3]