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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 ...
The Battle of Dublin was a week of street battles in Dublin from 28 June to 5 July 1922 that marked the beginning of the Irish Civil War.Six months after the Anglo-Irish Treaty ended the recent Irish War of Independence, it was fought between the forces of the new Provisional Government and a section of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) that opposed the Treaty.
This clash came to be known as the War of Independence or the Anglo-Irish War. It reinforced the fears of Ulster Unionists that they could never expect safeguards from an all-Ireland Sinn Féin government in Dublin. The No. 2 Third Tipperary Brigade Flying Column during the War of Independence.
Irish Republican Army (1919–1922) (1 C, 16 P) M. ... Pages in category "Irish War of Independence" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
The Irish War of Independence ended on 11 July 1921 – when a truce was agreed by both sides. The conflict had reached a stalemate. In mid-October 1921, despite the truce, 35 men escaped from Kilworth Camp, Co. Cork, where they had been imprisoned. A number of these men were from Co. Wexford. Europe in 1922- showing the newly formed Irish Free ...
Irish War of Independence: Part of the Irish revolutionary period 1922–23 Irish Civil War: Part of the Irish revolutionary period 1942–44 Northern Campaign: Irish republican campaign against the state of Northern Ireland 1956–62 Border Campaign: Irish republican campaign against the state of Northern Ireland 1968–98 The Troubles
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]