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The burning of Cork (Irish: Dó Chorcaí) [1][2] by British forces took place on the night of 11–12 December 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. It followed an Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol in the city, which wounded twelve Auxiliaries, one fatally. In retaliation, the Auxiliaries, Black and Tans and ...
The destruction of country houses in Ireland was a phenomenon of the Irish revolutionary period (1919–1923), which saw at least 275 country houses deliberately burned down, blown up, or otherwise destroyed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). [1] The vast majority of the houses, known in Ireland as big houses, belonged to the Anglo-Irish upper ...
Unknown. The siege of Cork took place during the Williamite war in Ireland in the year of 1690, shortly after the Battle of the Boyne when James II attempted to retake the English throne from King William III. In a combined land and sea operation, Williamite commander Marlborough, took the city and captured 5,000 Jacobites.
2006. Cork began as a monastic settlement, founded by St Finbar in the sixth century. [9] However the ancestor of the modern city was founded between 915 and 922, [10] when Viking settlers established a trading community. [11] The Viking leader Ottir Iarla is particularly associated with raiding and conquests in the province of Munster.
The Burning of Cork city on 11 December 1920 was carried out by K Company of the Auxiliary Division, in reprisal for an IRA ambush at Dillon's Cross. [49] The shooting dead by Crown forces of 13 civilians at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday , in retaliation for the killing of British intelligence officers was carried out by a mixed force of military ...
The Irish War of Independence (Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse) [4] or 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 Constabulary (USC).
Cork was overtaken by Belfast as Ireland's second-largest city in the nineteenth century. In the War of Independence, the centre of Cork was burnt down by the British Black and Tans, [20] in an event known as the "Burning of Cork" [20] and saw fierce fighting between Irish guerrillas and UK
Kilmichael ambush. The Kilmichael ambush (Irish: Luíochán Chill Mhichíl) was an ambush near the village of Kilmichael in County Cork on 28 November 1920 carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence.