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CENTENARY TIMELINE FOR THE COUNTY OF (1920 – 1923)

– WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AND CIVIL WAR

Guidance Note: This document provides hundreds of key dates with regard to the involvement of in the War of Independence and Civil War. These include the majority of the key occurrences of 1920 – 1923 including all major events from the County of Cork (including some other locations that involved people from County Cork), as well as key developments on the national level (or elsewhere in the country) during this timeframe (blue). All key ambushes, attacks and executions are included as well as events that saw the loss of life of Cork people, whether in Cork County or further afield. A number of notable events pertaining to Cork City (note: not all) are also included (green) and a details/link section is provided to indicate the source material.

While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information contained within this document, given the volume of material and variations in the historical record, there will undoubtedly be errors, omissions and other such issues. It is the intention of Cork County Council’s Commemorations Committee that this will remain a ‘live document’ and all suggested additional dates/amendments/etc. are most welcome, with this document being continually updated as appropriate.

Cork County Council’s Commemorations Committee recognises and wishes to pay tribute to the excellent research already undertaken by some excellent scholars regarding this time period and looks forward to further correspondence from community groups and other interested persons.

It is the purpose of this document to provide such dates that will assist local community groups in the organising of their local centenary events.

All correspondence can be sent to [email protected]. Document Last Updated on 04/02/2021

THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AND CIVIL WAR IN THE COUNTY OF CORK 1920-1923

TITLE BEGIN DETAIL DETAILS/LINK Carrigtwohill: RIC https://en.wikipedia.org/ barracks captured IRA volunteers under of the 1st Cork Brigade captured wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris by IRA - (reported 02/01/1920 Carrigtwohill RIC barracks. This is reported as the first officially- h_War_of_Independence as the first to sanctioned attack on an RIC barracks, which was undertaken by the + officially- 03/01/1920 and IRA Active Service Units on the night of 02 http://www.corkpastandp sanctioned attack January and the early hours of 03 January. resent.ie/history/timeline on an RIC barracks) -1918-1923/1920.html On 9 February the Castlemartyr RIC Barracks was raided by a party of lead by Captain Diarmuid Hurley. The attack was unplanned and only a small party of 10-14 volunteers were Castlemartyr: RIC http://www.corkpastandp involved. The Castlemartyr Barracks was garrisoned by eight RIC barracks captured 09/02/1920 resent.ie/history/timeline personnel including two sergeants. According to sources, two of by IRA -1918-1923/1920.html the garrison (Sergeant O’Brien and Constable Collins) were held up on the main Midleton road after returning from policing a fair in the town. Allihies: RIC https://en.wikipedia.org/ An IRA unit led by Seán Hales attacked Allihies RIC barracks killing barracks captured wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris 12/02/1920 an RIC officer (Constable Michael Neenan). Afterwards, the RIC by IRA - One h_War_of_Independence abandoned several small barracks in the area.

Fatality and Barry Keane William Newman died when the IRA attempted to capture arms at Cobh: Arms Queenstown (Cobh). Five soldiers were held up outside Capture - One 03/03/1920 Barry Keane Docks and Private Newman was shot when he tried to Fatality escape. 11/03/1920 RIC Constable Timothy Scully (aged 64) was shot dead when his https://en.wikipedia.org/ Glanmire: Ambush to patrol was ambushed returning to barracks in Glanmire. In reprisal, wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris - One Fatality 12/03/1920 RIC officers attacked homes in Cork City. h_War_of_Independence RIC Constable Joseph Murtagh (aged 45) was shot dead in an IRA https://en.wikipedia.org/ Cork City: Fatal 19/03/1920 ambush in Cork city while he was returning from a colleague's wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Shooting

funeral. h_War_of_Independence Lord Mayor of Cork, from Mourneabbey, Tomás MacCurtain, was shot dead in his family home in front of his family on the morning of his thirty sixth birthday. He was then the Brigade Commander of the IRA No. 1 Cork Brigade and had become a clear target to British reprisals due to the public nature of his position as well as his well known republican connections. The night before his murder, Mr Tomás MacCurtain, was working late at Cork City Hall with the town clerk, Con Harrington. Tadhg Barry came in to warn him that there would be reprisal set against him by the British if another RIC member was shot in Cork. As Mr MacCurtain made his way home he was approached and warned that a RIC Constable Murtagh had been shot on Popes Quay late on March 19th. At approximately Assassination of 1.00 am in the early hours of Saturday morning, 20 March, Tomás http://www.corkpastandp Tomás MacCurtain 20/03/1920 MacCurtain and his wife, Mrs Elizabeth MacCurtain, were woken resent.ie/history/timeline (ref Cork City and from their sleep by loud knocking on the front door of the shop. -1918-1923/1920.html Mourneabbey) Tomas MacCurtain was shot twice in his room. An inquest was completed on 17 April which had witnesses including 64 police, 31 civilians and 2 military personnel. The verdict given was that Mr Tomás MacCurtain was wilfully murdered, and that the murder was organised and carried out by the Royal Irish Constabulary, officially directed by the British government. It returned a verdict of wilful murder against , Prime Minister of England; Lord French, Lord Lieutenant of ; Ian Macpherson, late chief secretary of Ireland; acting Inspector General Smith, of the Royal Irish Constabulary; Divisional Inspector Clayton, of the Royal Irish Constabulary; District Inspector Swanzy, and some unknown members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. https://en.wikipedia.org/ Blacks and Tans Black and Tans arrive - they are primarily ex-soldiers recruited to 25/03/1920 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Arrive in Ireland reinforce the RIC h_War_of_Independence Better Government https://en.wikipedia.org/ Better Government of Ireland Bill was passed by 348 votes to 94 in of Ireland Bill 29/03/1920 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Westminster Passed h_War_of_Independence Durrus - Unsuccessful 31/03/1920 Unsuccessful IRA attack on RIC barracks at Durrus, West Cork Martin Millerick Attack on Barracks RIC Barracks and 03/04/1920 Income Tax Offices IRA burn over 300 abandoned RIC barracks in rural areas + over 100 to Martin Millerick burned across income tax offices across Ireland 04/04/1920 Ireland by IRA IRA prisoners in https://en.wikipedia.org/ IRA prisoners began a hunger strike in , demanding Mountjoy began a 05/04/1920 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris prisoner of war status hunger strike h_War_of_Independence IRA shot dead a DMP sergeant [Michael McCarthy] in . https://en.wikipedia.org/ Clonakilty - Fatal 22/04/1920 He was shot on the 22nd April and declared dead on April 24. He wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Incident - One to was a member of the Metropolitan Police who was home on h_War_of_Independence Fatality 24/02/1920

leave at the time. and Barry Keane https://en.wikipedia.org/ IRA ambushed and killed two RIC officers (Sgt Cornelius Crean, wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris : aged 48, and Constable Patrick McGoldrick, aged 59). They had left h_War_of_Independence Ambush - Two 25/04/1920 the RIC barracks at Innishannon and were ambushed as they and Fatalities reached Ballinspittle. http://www.theirishrevol ution.ie https://en.wikipedia.org/ : Barracks The IRA 1st Cork Brigade, led by Mick Leahy, captured Cloyne 08/05/1920 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris captured by IRA Barracks h_War_of_Independence Three RIC constables, Sergt. John Flynn, Constables William Brick and Edward Dunne, who were stationed at Timoleague, were Timoleague - ambushed and shot dead at Ahawadda, just outside Timoleague on Ahawadda Ambush 10/05/1920 May 10th. 1920. A fourth constable, Arthur Grimsdale survived. This Barry Keane - Three Fatalities caused great outrage at the time, with the parish priest of Timoleague Fr. O’Hea and the Bishop of Ross, Most Rev. Dr. Kelly foremost in leading condemnation of the ambush. Sergeant Denis Garvey and Constable Daniel Harrington were shot Cork City - Two 12/05/1920 dead while Constable Doyle was wounded on the Lower Road Cork Barry Keane shot dead near the railway station. 14/05/1920 Every member of the Dáil (not already in prison) received a note https://en.wikipedia.org/ Eye for an Eye, to through the post that said "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Tooth for a Tooth 15/05/1920 Therefore a life for a life" h_War_of_Independence - RIC https://en.wikipedia.org/ Barracks destroyed 01/06/1920 RIC Barracks in Blarney destroyed by IRA wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris by IRA h_War_of_Independence Carrigadrohid - RIC https://en.wikipedia.org/ Barracks destroyed 01/06/1920 RIC Barracks in Carrigadrohid destroyed by IRA wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris by IRA h_War_of_Independence British Courts of British courts of assize failed across the south and west, and trials 01/06/1920 https://en.wikipedia.org/ Assize Fail across by jury could not be held because potential jurors refused to to wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris the South and participate. The collapse of the court system demoralized the RIC 31/07/1920 h_War_of_Independence West and many officers left the force. Local Government Elections 1920 02/06/1920 Local Government Elections of County Cork 1920 (County Cork) Bantry (Ardnagashel) - Constable Thomas King shot and killed outside Bantry by members Martin Millerick and Barry 12/06/1920 Shooting - One of the IRA. Keane Fatality Bantry - Clonee MM: Clonee wood ambush. RIC officer killed (Constable James Martin Millerick and Barry Wood Ambush - 12/06/1920 Brett) and one wounded. Keane One Fatality - Private Edward Statton was accidentally shot at Ballincollig Shooting - One 13/06/1920 Barracks before he went on patrol. He was 17 and a member of the Barry Keane Fatality Seventeenth Lancers. (accidental) Following the Elections of 1920 some 91% of Municipal and County Cork County Councils recognized the Irish Government and declared they no Cork County Council Council pledges 19/06/1920 longer gave allegiance to the English Government. Cork County Centenary of the First Dáil allegiance to Dáil Council adopted such a resolution on the 19th of June, 1920, with Booklet - January 2019 Éireann Dómhnall Ó Ceallacháin as Cathaorlach. - Brigadier- General Cuthbert Heritage Centenary Sites Lucas Kidnapped - On 26 June Liam Lynch and other volunteers of Cork No. 2 Brigade of Rebel County Cork (p. the Highest captured Brigadier-General Cuthbert Lucas in Fermoy, the highest 78) and Ranking Officer to 26/06/1920 ranking officer to be taken during the conflict. Although he escaped https://en.wikipedia.org/ be taken during his captor’s custody after a few weeks, the detention of such a wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris the War of significant officer by the IRA was a major issue for the British h_War_of_Independence Independence in Ireland Cobh - Change of Elected Members change the name of the town from Queenstown Queenstown to 02/07/1920 to Cobh Cobh Cornelius Crowley was shot dead in his bed and many prominent Bantry - Shooting - 03/07/1920 Sinn Fein members were attacked in Bantry. A Shop and a number Barry Keane One Fatality of houses were also burned. British Colonel Gerald Smyth was assassinated by the IRA in a Cork City country club. Smyth had told RIC officers to shoot civilians who disobeyed orders.. On 17 July 1920 the recently appointed Munster Divisional Police Commissioner, Lt. Col. Gerard Bryce Ferguson Smyth, was shot by the IRA in a Cork City County Club. Lt Col. Gerard Bryce Ferguson Smyth was a decorated war hero of the https://en.wikipedia.org/ First World War. In June 1920 Colonel Smyth was sent to Ireland at wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Cork City British the height of the War of Independence and was seconded to the h_War_of_Independence Colonel Gerald 17/07/1920 RIC. The reason behind the deliberate targeting of Lt. Col Smyth + Smyth assassinated appears to have been for the shoot to kill policy he attempted to http://www.corkpastandp by IRA encourage in the RIC. On the 17th a dozen members of the No.1 resent.ie/history/timeline Brigade entered the County Club. One of the men walked up to -1918-1923/1920.html Smyth and allegedly said: 'Your orders were to shoot on sight. You are in sight now so make ready', after which he was shot a number of times. On the following day General Strickland, Commander of British forces in the area, ordered a curfew and armoured cars and military police and soldiers patrolled the streets of Cork. It is understood that three people were shot in Cork City on July Cork City - Three 19/07/1920 19th 1920: James Bourke; William McGrath, and John O'Brien, Barry Keane Fatalities aged 18. reports that Captain James Airy of the Manchester Regiment was ambushed along with his patrol quarter of a mile from Ballyvourney and that he had died from his wounds. Private Ernest F. Barlow was also wounded and died. BMH 1543 stated ‘On the third morning, on the 17th July, our expected lorry came along. It was fun of soldiers armed with rifle. As it came into the ambush position a private car taking a patient to hospital also drove into the ambush position. The private car had been signaled to stop but the driver ignored the signal. The private car was going towards . We waited until the private car got past the lorry before we opened fire. In the first volley the driver of the lorry Baile Bhuirne was wounded in the cheek. The lorry for the moment went out of Ambush - Two 20/07/1920 control and mounted the fence on the side of the road. After Barry Keane Fatalaties travelling a couple of hundred yards with its two left wheels on the fence, the driver managed to get it back on the road after which it disappeared from our view around a bend…In this encounter a Captain Eyrie was shot dead …to our surprise, no reprisals were carried out in the village. Instead, reprisals were carried out in Fermoy a night or two after the attack…We learned later that Captain Eyrie, who was stationed in Fermoy, had only came to Macroom the morning 10. he was killed and had only cone for the' drive to Ballyvourney. A short time previous he had criminally assaulted a young girl in Fermoy as she was returning from school and apparently the authorities were of the opinion that he had been killed by members of the Fermoy I.R.A. for the offence’. Daniel McGrath, aged 18 years, one of a social gathering at - Coracunna Cross, Mitchelstown, County Cork, which dispersed in Shootings - Two 21/07/1920 terror on a shot being fired from a military lorry. McGrath was shot Barry Keane Fatalities dead when running for cover. Thomas Mc Donnell shot in similar circumstances. Ardgroom - Coastguards Philip William Snewin (Snowden) and Charles Brown Shooting - Two 25/07/1920 were both shot dead in a gunfight at Ballycrovane Coastguard Barry Keane Fatalities Station which had been raided for arms by the I.R.A. https://en.wikipedia.org/ Bandon - An RIC Intelligence Officer D/Sgt William Mulherin (aged 38) is wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Assassination of 25/07/1920 assassinated by the IRA outside St. Patrick's R.C. Church in Bandon. h_War_of_Independence Intelligence Officer

and Barry Keane Cork City - One Cornelius Doherty Shot outside St. Francis Church in the city centre 26/07/1920 Barry Keane Fatality by a passing army or police lorry https://en.wikipedia.org/ Clonakilty - wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Shooting - One 27/07/1920 AN RIC Constable (James Murray) is shot on Rossa St. in Clonakilty. h_War_of_Independence Fatality

and Barry Keane Major Percival took Corporal Thomas Maddox with him on an https://en.wikipedia.org/ Bandon -Shooting intelligence raid on the home of Sean Buckley, IRA intelligence wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris at Raid - One 27/07/1920 officer who lived a few doors from the barracks in Bandon. The IRA h_War_of_Independence Fatality had sentries posted and Maddox was shot as the two men

and Barry Keane approached the back yard. The Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary (ADRIC), generally known as the Auxiliaries or Auxies, was a paramilitary https://en.m.wikipedia.or Auxiliaries arrive in 27/07/1920 unit of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) during the Irish War of g › wiki › Ireland

Independence. It was set up in July 1920 and made up of former Auxiliary_Division British Army officers, most of whom came from Great Britain. Dunmanway - John M. Kingston was shot while trespassing in a wood near Shooting - One 30/07/1920 Barry Keane Dunmanway Fatality Cork City (Military Barracks) - Private Herbert Charles Jerrum was accidentally shot by a sentry at Shooting - One 04/08/1920 Barry Keane Cork Military Barracks. Fatality (accidental) Kildorrery Ambush: The IRA's East Flying Column, joined forces with a Cork column under Numbering twenty-five https://en.wikipedia.org/ Kildorrery - men to ambush a six-man Black and Tans and two-men RIC foot wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Ambush - One 07/08/1920 patrol near Kildorrery, County Cork. All the Black and Tans/RIC men h_War_of_Independence Fatality

were wounded, one fatally (Ernest Watkins). Six revolvers and 250 and Barry Keane rounds of ammunition were seized. Terence McSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, was arrested. McSwiney began a hunger strike in protest and was joined by ten other prisoners. IRA officers Liam Lynch and Seán Hegarty were also arrested, but mistakenly released by the British. Cork Past and Present: On 20 March 1920, Terence MacSwiney was unanimously elected Lord Mayor of Cork by the city's Corporation, composed of representatives of Sinn Féin, the Redmond, O’Brien and Unionist parties. In the local elections in 1920 Sinn Fein secured 30 of the fifty six seats with the collapse in support for the Irish Parliamentary Party which supported constitutional https://en.wikipedia.org/ nationalism. Terence MacSwiney was a well known republican and wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris was the Commander of the No.1 Brigade of the Cork IRA following h_War_of_Independence Terence McSwiney 12/08/1920 the death of Tomás MacCurtain. Due to the escalation of and Arrested nationalist activity throughout Cork the British authorities sought http://www.corkpastandp to make an example. On Thursday 12 August 1920, the British resent.ie/history/timeline Military surrounded Cork City Hall and arrested the Lord Mayor, -1918-1923/1920.html Terence MacSwiney, and ten other prominent Sinn Féiners who were adjudicating in courts or acting as Officers of the Courts. The Lord Mayor was taken to Victoria Barracks before being moved to Cork County Gaol. The Lord Mayor, Terence MacSwiney, stated that his arrest and the arrest of the other Council members was illegal and that he would take part in a hunger strike, which he began on the day of his arrest, until he was freed or would die in protest. Over 50 other political prisoners were also on hunger strike during this time in the County Gaol. Clonbannin The newspaper reports that a soldier was shot dead in Clonbannin (Boherbue) - 14/08/1920 Co. Cork.. The Irish Times of the 19 August identified him as Private Barry Keane Shooting - One Albert Edward Nunn from Chesterfield fatality ‘John O'Connell, Derrygallon, County Cork, shot dead by military Barry Keane and Kanturk - Two and police from whom he endeavoured to escape when they came 16/08/1920 http://theirishrevolution.i Fatalities to arrest him at his own house.’ #2 Patrick Clancy, Derrygallon, e County Cork, bayoneted and killed while in custody of military. James Herlihy, and some other civilians, was known to be in touch with the British military and to have supplied to them the names of prominent local I.R.A. men. These spies had been supplied with Cork City - revolvers (by the British) for their protection in case of attack by Pouladuff - Spy 20/08/1920 the I.R.A. As the result of military raids on houses of prominent Michael Collins House Executed I.R.A. men in the area, it became known that Herlihy was one of those who had given information. He was taken into custody and removed to the Pouladuff district south of the city, where he was executed by a firing squad on instructions from the Brigade.' A cycle patrol of twenty British troops was ambushed outside Baile Bhuirne Ballyvourney. An IRA man called on them to halt but they Ambush - One 21/08/1920 Barry Keane attempted to ride through the ambush. Four were injured and Fatality Fredrick Sharman died at the scene. Inchigeelagh On Saturday the 21st of August RIC Sergeant Daniel Maunsell aged Ambush - One 21/08/1920 Barry Keane 49 was killed in an ambush at Inchegeela Fatality Oswald Seanzy District Inspector Oswald Swanzy is assassinated in Lisburn, County assassinated in Antrim. Swanzy was seen as one of the key architects of Tomás Antrim - believed MacCurtain's death. Having been transferred from Cork to Lisburn to have been 22/08/1920 for his safety, he was traced to Antrim and assassinated by Michael Collins House behind members of Collins' 'Squad' and a young member of the Cork No. 1 assassination of Brigade who had allegedly been given MacCurtain's personal gun to Michael Collins carry out the assassination with. After the killing of RIC Sergeant Maunsell on 21, August 1920 a lorry load of police, including the RIC county inspector drove to Macroom from Bandon the next morning to investigate the incident. They passed through the village of Lissarda on the way. Lissarda Ambush - After this was noted a group of local volunteers made preparations Michael Galvin 22/08/1920 Barry Keane to engage them on their return. As the police drove through killed Lissarda on their return journey they were forced to stop by a cart which had been positioned across the main road. They were ordered to surrender but immediately opened fire on the ambushers. Michael Galvin was killed. Charleville - Accidental Private Joseph Evans was accidentally shot on the main street of 24/08/1920 Barry Keane Shooting - One Charleville by another soldier Fatality Glengarriff - Two Constables [John McNamara and Patrick Cleary] shot in Shooting - One 24/08/1920 Glengarriffe County Cork by men who apparently came over the Barry Keane Fatality Caha mountains from Kenmare. [Constable John McNamara dies]. Bantry - Shooting - 25/08/1920 Constable Mathew Haugh shot dead in Bantry. Barry Keane One Fatality Millstreet - Both men [Dodd and Kelly] were shot by the same bullet Shooting - One 26/08/1920 discharged accidentally by Private Wardell in Millstreet. CN Private Barry Keane Fatality John Kelly dies. Midleton - John Buckley, Midleton, County Cork, shot dead while being Shooting - one 27/08/1920 conveyed with his brother, to whom he was bound with ropes, in a Barry Keane fatality covered lorry under an escort of 20 armed soldiers. Castlemartyr - A Soldier was shot dead in Castlemartyr. The Irish Times identified Shooting - one 28/08/1920 the location as Cahirmore and the victim as Private Charles Edward Barry Keane fatality Hall. George Walker, Queenstown, County Cork, a wounded ex-soldier Cobh - Shooting - 28/08/1920 unable to raise his hands rapidly enough when called upon by Barry Keane one fatality military, was promptly shot and after falling was bayoneted. Tim Fitzgerald is the first member of the Cork No. 3 Brigade to be Brinny: Ambush - Michael Collins House and 29/08/1920 killed on duty. A planned ambush at Brinny for the Essex Regiment One Fatality historicgraves.com was surprised by Crown forces. Date Uncertain: A man named Brady, a native of Dublin, who was employed as a printer in Macroom, had been under suspicion as an enemy agent. On a night in September he was drinking with Auxiliaries at the Market Bar and was overheard by the proprietor, Mr. Shields, and two recently resigned R.I.C. Men, brothers, named Vaughan, giving information that Barret's house in the South Cork City - one 01/09/1920 Square was being used by the I.R.A. as a billet. Word was conveyed Barry Keane fatality by Shields and the Volunteers using the house were alerted and when the raid took place no one was found on the premises. Brady was arrested by the IRA, convicted after a trial and deported from the country. He returned after some weeks and visited Union Quay Barracks, Cork. He was shadowed one night as he left this post and he was shot dead at Tory top Lane. #1 Patrick Hegarty, Ballyvourney, County Cork, shot dead when machine-gun fire was opened from an apparently deserted military Baile Bhuirne - motor lorry which was being viewed on the roadside by a crowd of Shootings - Two 05/09/1920 young people. #2 ‘Michael Lynch, Ballyvourney, County Cork, shot Barry Keane Fatalities dead when cycling past in apparently deserted military motor lorry from which machine-gun fire was opened on a crowd of young people who were viewing it by the road-side.’ . The Brigade had ample evidence that John O'Callaghan was conveying information to the British. He was taken into custody by Cork City - one 15/09/1920 the IRA to the Thomas Ashe Hall, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, Barry Keane fatality where he was placed under guard. Later that evening he was taken by car outside the city and executed. Members of Cork No. 2 Brigade led by Liam Lynch and GHQ Michael Collins House & organiser Ernie O'Malley capture a British military barracks in https://en.wikipedia.org/ Mallow - Mallow. The town is destroyed in a reprisal. - They seized wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Capturing of 28/09/1920 weaponry, freed prisoners and killed a British sergeant (William h_War_of_Independence Barracks - one George Gibbs). It was the only British Army barracks to be captured and fatality during the war. British troops burned many buildings in the town in www.irishmedals.ie/britis reprisal h-Soldiers.php Buttevant - Patrick Nunan was shot at Ardpatrick, Buttevant by uniformed men Shooting - one 30/09/1920 Barry Keane who apparently called to the wrong house fatality According to the West Cork Eagle armed men had broken in to the Shannon household and Philip Shannon had fought them off with a Barry Keane and blackthorn stick. This was despite having a revolver pointed at him. Skibbereen -House http://theirishrevolution.i 01/10/1920 The armed men retreated. The following morning when the Raid - One Fatality e/1920- Shannons came out of the house 'a fellow ran in the gate and fired 70/#.XZnGICV7lUM point blank at Samuel Richard Shannon who was shot in the side and died. Cork City - one 03/10/1920 Constable Clarence Chave was killed on Patrick’s Street Barry Keane fatality Bureau Military History WS The Essex regiment surrounded a IRA ambush at the Chetwynd Viaduct just outside Cork city. Bureau Chetwynd Military History Witness Statement Michael O’Regan. One of the (relevance also to main body, a man named Jeremiah Herlihy, signaller, was captured Clondrohid)- 05/10/1920 Barry Keane by the military and told to run. He turned and just walked away and shooting - one was shot in the neck as he did so. He was found, a few hours later, fatality taken to a hospital in Cork city where he died the next day. He was later buried at Cloundrohid [sic] with military honours’. The Essex regiment was on patrol through the heart of the IRA ‘safe zone’ at Newcestown when the IRA ambushed them in an impromptu ambush. Both Lieutenants [Robert Robertson and Newcestown Gurth Richardson] were killed and Major Arthur Percival, Sgt Ambush - two 09/10/1920 Barry Keane Benton and Private Wotton were all awarded medals. Richardson fatalities Gurth Alwyn, (Flight Lieutenant Royal Air Force) and Robertson Robert Douglas Finch (Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Essex Regiment). Robertson died on 12/10/1920. Private John Gordon Squibbs of the Hampshire Regiment was killed by a grenade which was thrown into a military lorry. After the Cork City - one killing at the South Gate Bridge ‘Revenge tonight’ was scrawled on 12/10/1920 Barry Keane fatality the wall. That night the first attempt to burn Cork City Hall occurred. The Freemans Journal had a report of the military inquiry on October 9 which establishes the facts. On 18th September the SS reports that Dunmanway had been raided by the British who were being lead by John Hawkes (alias James Mahony). He was shot as he left the workhouse in Skibbereen - Skibbereen where he had slept for the night. He had gone to the Shooting - One 13/10/1920 police barracks the night before telling them that the IRA was after Barry Keane Fatality him. He was a suspected spy. The military confirmed that he had been working for them. On 2nd July 1921 the Southern Star reported that his mother was awarded compensation of £300 for his death. Dublin (ref Liam Ó Connaill, from the Kilshannig Parish, was killed in conflict in , County 14/10/1920 Monument in Glantane Dublin on 14th October 1920 Cork) - One Fatality - James Lehane, Ballymakeera, county Cork, taken from the shop Shooting - one 15/10/1920 where he worked by police, who shot him dead near his father's Barry Keane fatality house. Bandon - one John Connolly, Bandon, county Cork, found buried near the 15/10/1920 Barry Keane fatality military barracks where he had been a prisoner in custody for 15 days.

Cork City - one Michael Griffin was injured during a police search in the city centre 16/10/1920 Barry Keane fatality and died on 16 October. Cork City - one Patrick Mc Nestry’s death is recorded on 16 October 1920. Buried 16/10/1920 Barry Keane fatality in the Republican Plot St. Finbarr’s Cemetery Cork Michael Fitzgerald (1881 - 17/10/1920) was born in Ballyoran Fermoy. Following the September, 1919 attack on a British armed party outside the Wesleyan church at Fermoy in which one soldier was killed, a number of local volunteers were arrested and https://en.wikipedia.org/ Fermoy - Michael detained. However, despite the threat of heavy penalties, no jury wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Fitzgerald dies on 17/10/1920 could be empowered to try the prisoners and they remained in h_War_of_Independence Hunger Strike

custody at Cork Jail. On August 11, 1920 Michael Fitzgerald, and Barry Keane together with a number of other untried prisoners, began a hunger strike for release, which ended in his death sixty-seven days later. He is buried at KIlcrumper Cemetery, Fermoy. Edward Turner was shot and killed by firing from British forces in Mallow - Shooting - 18/10/1920 the town park at Mallow after the wounding of a British soldier at Barry Keane One Fatality the Barracks by the IRA. Berite Rippingdale died from gunshot wounds inflicted on October 21/10/1920 Leap - Ambush - 21st 1921 and he died the following day. Rundale died on 8

to Barry Keane two fatalities November after developing a bowel obstruction resulting from his 08/11/1920 shooting. IRA 3rd Cork Brigade personnel attacked a lorry carrying British Toureen troops from the Essex Regiment at the Toureen Ambush, on the https://en.wikipedia.org/ (Ballinhassig)- road between Bandon and Cork. Three soldiers were killed, [Lt wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris 22/10/1920 Ambush - two W.A. Dixon, Charles Reid and Thomas Bennett]. Ten more were h_War_of_Independence

fatalities captured, disarmed and then released. This was the first organised and Barry Keane ambush by the 3rd West Cork Brigade. Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, who had represented Mid-Cork in the First Dáil, died in Brixton Prison in after 74 days on hunger strike. His protest, death and funeral attracted international attention to the fight for Irish Independence. At the time of his Court Martial Terence MacSwiney had already begun a Michael Collins House + Death of Terence hunger strike in opposition to his arrest. Despite the Lord Mayor http://www.corkpastandp 25/10/1920 McSwiney being gravely ill from his hunger strike he declared that he would resent.ie/history/timeline continue the hunger strike until he was released or died of -1918-1923/1920.html starvation. The British Government feared that releasing him would spark mutiny in Ireland, this was despite requests by King George V for his release. The Lord Mayor continued his hunger strike and after 74 days, on the 25 October, he passed away. Joe Murphy, from Pouladuff Road in , joined the Irish Volunteers in 1917 and took place in numerous actions during the War of Independence. He was arrested in July 1920 and imprisoned in Cork Gaol. He went on hunger strike along with ten other prisoners in July 1920. He died after 76 days without food on 25th Barry Keane and Cork City - Death of October 1920 . He is buried in St Finbarr’s Cemetery. WIKIPEDIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/ 25/10/1920 Joseph Murphy Michael Fitzgerald and Joseph Murray died on hunger strike. Both wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris

men, along with eight others, had been arrested along with h_War_of_Independence MacSwiney. They were known as the Cork Ten because all ten went on the hunger strike together. After Fitzgerald and Murray died, called off the hunger strike and the other eight recovered Two individuals who deserted on 30 October 1920 from the Essex Regiment were shot by the West Cork Brigade because they had Clonakilty: too much information [Percy Talyor and Thomas Watling]. John L. Shootings - Two 30/10/1920 Barry Keane Sullivan explains that the two men were shot after they had given Fatalities information about Bandon barracks which led to the death of three IRA men on 3 December. Bernard Brown and David Rutherford were motorcycling from Fermoy to Killarney and were most likely captured outside Cork Knockraha- Two City near Killeens. There is little doubt that they were killed most 30/10/1920 Barry Keane Fatalities likely at Knockraha where the 1st Brigade prison was located and where the warder remembers four British officers in captivity around this time. No. 3 Cork Brigade The Cork No. 3 Brigade flying column is formed. Tom Barry is Flying Column 31/10/1920 appointed commander. formed Capt. Phil Kelleher, RIC District Inspector, Macroom shot dead by Macroom - IRA. Had boasted that he would ‘clean up’ the Macroom area of Shooting - One 31/10/1920 Martin Millerick IRA. Source: Cumann Staire Bhéal Átha na Ghaorthaidh – Fatality www.ballingearyhs.com/journal2004/forgte_not_kilmichael.html DUBLIN - First Irish Kevin Gerard Barry was the first Irish republican to be executed by https://en.wikipedia.org/ Republican the British since the leaders of the . Barry was 01/11/1920 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris executed by British sentenced to death for his part in an Irish Volunteers operation h_War_of_Independence - Kevin Barry which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers. Young and married for only three weeks, Private Percy Victor Starling was mortally wounded by the accidental discharge of a 05/11/1920 rifle at the coastguard station in the village of Union Hall on Friday http://theirishrevolution.i Union Hall - One to morning, 5 November 1920. Two other soldiers were also wounded e/1920- Fatality 08/11/1920 by the discharge. Starling was conveyed to the Royal Naval Hospital 101/#.Xhev6OvgpUM at , where he died on 8 November of peritonitis stemming from a bullet wound in the abdomen [William King] Killed in a barbershop in . Four other Youghal - One 05/11/1920 soldiers were also involved. Apparently, these events were part of Barry Keane Fatality reprisals after the Kinsalebeg ambush a few days earlier.

Ballingeary - House Christopher Lucy, Cork city, traced to a house in , 10/11/1920 Barry Keane Raid - One Fatality County Cork, by police who forced an entry and shot him dead. Stewart Chambers; Montague Green and William Watts were Waterfall - kidnapped and killed by the IRA when they were taken off a train at Kidnapping - Three 15/11/1920 Barry Keane Waterfall station outside Cork. Their bodies were apparently buried Fatalities in a local quarry and remain undiscovered. Auxiliaries Lt. L Mitchell and B. V. A. Agnew left Marcoom on 15 November and checked in to the Imperial Hotel Cork after which Coachford and they disappeared. There are various versions of this story all http://theirishrevolution.i Rusheen (also ref centered around the date. Some place these abductions on 16/11/1920 e/1920- Cork City) - Two November 6th and the point of capture at Coachford with the place 128/#.XhevzuvgpUN Fatalities of execution at Rusheen. Others place the abduction in Cork City. It is possible that there are two sets of intelligence officers missing at the same time. RIC sergeant James O'Donoghue was assassinated by IRA volunteers in White Street in Cork City. BK: That night three men https://en.wikipedia.org/ Cork City - Four 17/11/1920 were shot dead in Cork by men in military uniform (Patrick Hanley wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Fatalities (aged 17); Eugene O'Connell, and James Coleman). It is also h_War_of_Independence understood that a fourth - Stephen Colemam - was also killed. https://en.wikipedia.org/ Four IRA officers captured by the Auxiliaries in Durrus, County Cork. Durrus - IRA wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris 19/11/1920 Only the intervention of a colonel of the King's Liverpool Regiment Officers Captured h_War_of_Independence prevented the men from being summarily executed.

and Barry Keane Barry Keane and Cork City, British Army Intelligence Officer [Joseph Thompson] knocked off http://theirishrevolution.i Carrigrohane - One 20/11/1920 his motor bicycle at Carrigrohane and shot by the IRA. e/1920- Fatality 116/#.Xhez2uvgpUM The infamous Bloody Sunday. Members of the 'Squad' and the Dublin Brigade carry out the assassination of 14 suspected intelligence agents in Dublin, In retaliation; Crown forces open fire at a Gaelic Football match in Croke Park between Dublin and Tipperary. 14 people are killed, including Tipperary player Michael Hogan. That night, Conor Clune, along with high-ranking IRA officers Dick McGee and Peadar Claney, were shot, allegedly after attempting to escape. The violence began with a large scale attempt by the Dublin Brigade of the IRA to assassinate thirty five members of the British Military Intelligence stationed in Ireland in order to stop intelligence being gathered on IRA members and operations. By 1920 the IRA had largely dismantled the Dublin Metropolitan Police intelligence organisation known as Division G Michael Collins House + Dublin - Bloody which provided the mainstay of British intelligence. British Army http://www.corkpastandp 21/11/1920 Sunday Intelligence Centre in Ireland stood up a special plainclothes unit of resent.ie/history/timeline 18–20 demobilized ex-army officers and some active-duty officers -1918-1923/1920.html to conduct clandestine operations against the IRA and this unit became known as the ‘Cairo Gang’. While they were gathering intelligence on the IRA operatives, sources controlled by Michael Collins had already provided the names of each officer involved in the gang. The IRA also recruited servant who worked in the boarding houses and hotels the men stayed at. On the morning of 21 November the IRA carried out operations to destroy the Cairo gang. In simultaneous assassinations twelve of the Intelligence officers as well as a number of Auxiliaries and Court Martial officers were shot. This sent the Intelligence organisation into disarray with any British officers who escaped as well as many not involved with intelligence operations fleeing to Dublin Castle. Killed at Leap The Cork Examiner on 23 November 1920 reported Barry Keane and that On Sunday night at Leap, between 8 and 9 o'clock, as http://www.policerollofh Leap - Shooting - Constables Henry Jays and Mills were passing through the village 21/11/1920 onour.org.uk/forces/irela One Fatality volleys were fired at them from behind a hoarding near the Cross nd_to_1922/ric/ric_roll.ht turning to Glandore. Jays was mortally wounded and died almost m instantaneously.’ The late Paddy McCarthy was born in and reared in Freemount, not far from Millstreet. He became an active member of Óglaigh na hÉireann following the 1916 Easter Rising. On May 8, 1918 he was charged with a gun offence and imprisoned for 18 Millstreet - One 22/11/1920 months. He was held in Belfast and in Manchester where he Barry Keane Fatality managed to escape in October 1919. He took part in the capture of Mallow Barracks in September 1920. He met his fate on Mill Lane on the night of the 22nd November 1920, when his Flying Column took on the British Forces in Millstreet.

Cork City – Date of incident: 23 Nov. 1920 (ex-soldier [Thomas Downing] Civilian Thomas Downing Suspected 23/11/1921 abducted, executed, and disappeared as suspected spy by IRA) – The Irish Revolution Execution

Kildorrery - Shooting - One 26/11/1920 [Denis O'Connell] shot in KiIldorrery by British Army. Barry Keane Fatality Cork City - RIC RIC Inspector Robert Madden was shot in the jaw on the South Inspector Madden 26/11/1920 Barry Keane Mall. killed Cork City - Bomb Premature explosion at Watercourse Road Bomb factory. Cork, The Factory Explosion - 26/11/1920 men were buried at St. Finbarr's Cemetery, Cork. [Volunteer Denis Barry Keane Two Fatalities Morrissey and Volunteer William Mulcahy] Cork City - St. Patrick's Street - One of the three IRA men dropped a grenade he was carrying on St. accidental 26/11/1920 Patrick’s Street and they were killed when it exploded. [Patrick Barry Keane explosion, resulting O'Donoghue, Patrick Trahy and James Meihigan] in three fatalities British troops were ambushed and these men killed at Glanworth Ambush 26/11/1920 while returning from the inquest into Denis O’Connell earlier the Barry Keane - three fatalities same day. [Walter Gammon and Ernest Hall] Liam Heffernan was sitting in his car outside a shop in the middle Castlemartyr - of Castlemartyr waiting for an IRA officer when he was spotted by Shooting - one 27/11/1920 Barry Keane Constable Timothy Quinn who walked up to him. Shots rang out fatality and Heffernan was mortally wounded. The takes place. Cork No. 3 Brigade's flying column ambushes a patrol of 18 Auxiliaries at Kilmichael, killing 17.[Cecil James Bayley; William T. Barnes, Leonard Bradshaw, Martin Millerick + Michael Francis Crake, James Gleave, Philip Graham, Cecil Guthrie, Stanley Collins House + Kilmichael - Hugh-Jones, Hugo Frederick, Albert Jones, Ernest Lucas, William http://www.corkpastandp Ambush - Twenty 28/11/1920 Pallester, Harold Pearson, Arthur Poole, Francis Taylor, resent.ie/history/timeline Fatalities Christopher Wainwright and Benjamin Webster]. It is the greatest -1918-1923/1920.html + number of casualties inflicted on the Crown forces from a single Barry Keane engagement anywhere in the country. 3 IRA killed [Michael McCarthy, Jim O'Sullivan and Patrick Deasy]. Kildorrery - The reported on 29 November 1920 p.5 that Shooting - One 29/11/1920 Denis O’Donnell was shot dead by unknown men in the kitchen of Barry Keane Fatality his home in Kildorrery. On the afternoon of 29 November, Volunteers from Cork No. 1 Brigade abducted James Blemens from his home on the Blackrock Cork City - Two 29/11/1920 Road. Later, at 7 pm, they abducted his son, Frederick. There are Barry Keane Fatalities various accounts but it is believed they were shot and killed south of the city in Carroll’s bog. ‘ Dromleigh Kilmichael Historical Society erected plaques at Dromleigh (Kilmichael) - 29/11/1920 (remembering Denny O'Sullivan who was shot by the Auxiliaries on Barry Keane Shooting - One 29th November 1920). Fatality Cork City - One Carl Jolinson, Norwegian sailor, mortally wounded by auxiliary 01/12/1920 Barry Keane Fatality police who opened indiscriminate fire on the quays in Cork city. James Gordon of Leitrim was captured while drunk sometime in November according to the BMH statement. He was a 'Black & Tan' and was linked by the IRA to the killing of a number of Nationalists. Knockraha - One According to the Irish Military Pensions Application of Edward 01/12/1920 Barry Keane Fatality Maloney of Knockraha Gordon was held in ‘Sing Sing’ vault for three weeks before being shot by a group which included Malony who stated that four British Officers were held there at the same time. Shot by Auxiliaries SS 1 December 1920. The website Irish Medals reports ‘On Wednesday the 1st of December 1920 an altercation took place at the Royal Hotel in Fermoy County Cork between a group of Auxiliaries and Nicholas Prendergast of Black Vale Hotel Fermoy. Prendergast, who was an ex-British Army officer, was accused by the Auxiliaries of being a member of the I.R.A., when Barry Keane and Femoy Ambush - 01/12/1920 Prendergast refuted the accusation he was dragged into the car http://irishmedals.org/civi One Fatality park of the Hotel and severally beaten and then thrown into the lians-killed.html river which was in full flow due to flooding at the time. Prendergast’s body was not found for a month when it was discovered at the weir at Clondulane. The inquest into Prendergast’s death found he died from asphyxia caused by violent injuries - http://irishmedals.org/civilians-killed.html Barry Keane and https://stairnaheireann.n Bandon Military IRA members (Joe Begley (aged 24), John Galvin (18) and Jimmy et/2016/12/03/1920- Barracks Ambush - 02/12/1920 O'Donoghue (I8)) lured by the promise of arms and ambushed three-bandon-members- Three Fatalities outside Bandon Military barracks. All three killed. of-the-ira-were-killed-in- an-ambush-set-by-the- essex-regiment/ Barry Keane and Youghal - Shooting https://discovery.national 03/12/1920 Constable Maurice Prenderville RIC shot in Youghal - One Fatality archives.gov.uk/details/r/ C13389449 Denis Regan, aged 21, Clashflack, County Cork, arrested by military Barry Keane and Clashflack - Arrest at Bandon and taken under heavy escort in a military motor lorry in http://theirishrevolution.i 07/12/1920 and Fatality the direction of Clonakilty. His dead body was found on the road e/1920-163/#.XhfAr- later with a bullet wound in the back of the head. vgpUM John 'Fleming, Cattle Market Avenue, Cork city, died as a result of wounds received when, with two brothers and a friend, fire was suddenly opened on them from a passing police lorry as they were walking along the street at 4.30 p. m. George Horgan Matthew Place Ballintemple ex soldier abducted Cork City - Three and shot. Warning notice demanding his return by '4 (O Clock) 09/12/1920 Barry Keane Fatalities today Friday- one man and one shop will disappear after the given time. Shot and killed during a raid on St. Peter’s and Paul’s Church off St Patricks Street was Michael J. Murphy, Tower Street, Cork city. He was shot dead by auxiliary police, who opened fire on worshippers leaving SS. Peter and Paul's. On 10 December 1920 Martial law was proclaimed in Counties Martial Law Cork, Kerry, Limerick, and Tipperary. In January 1921 Martial Law https://en.wikipedia.org/ declared in Cork, 10/12/1920 was extended to Clare and . In a crucial judgement, R. wiki/Restoration_of_Orde Limerick, Tipperary (Egan) v Macready, the Irish Courts ruled that the Act did not give r_in_Ireland_Act_1920 and Kerry power to impose the death penalty. On Saturday 11 December 1920, Martial law was declared in County Cork. On the same morning six IRA Volunteers took up position on Dillon's cross and ambushed two lorry loads of Auxiliaries of K Company who had left Victoria Barracks to enter the countryside north of the city. The Lorries were ambushed using Mills Bombs and revolvers which resulted in the death of one Auxiliary (Spencer Rougier Chapman) and eleven others wounded. Outraged at the attack, Auxiliaries from K Company proceeded to raid and burn homes in the Dillon’s Cross area. The Auxiliaries then spread out their attacks on civilians throughout the city as they made their way to the centre of the City. Cork was one of four Michael Collins House + counties that had a Military curfew in place. Just before 10.00 pm, http://www.corkpastandp sporadic gunfire and bombs were reported in the city centre. Just 11/12/1920 resent.ie/history/timeline City after 10.00 pm Grants & Co, outfitters and general warehouse, on -1918-1923/1920.html St Patrick's Street was ablaze. It is believed that the building was and Barry Keane set on fire by the Auxiliaries who were using incendiary bombs within the city. A party of Auxiliaries also followed the trail of the Ambushers to Delaney's farm and proceeded to shoot two brothers, Joseph Delaney and Cornelius Delaney, as well as injuring their elderly uncle. The arrived and began to battle the fire. By 12.30 am the Munster Arcade and Roche’s Stores were now also ablaze. The Auxiliaries prevented the Fire Brigade from putting out burning buildings with force and fired at people attempting to retrieve property. A Contingent of the under the command of Captain Myers arrived to assist. At around 6.00 am City Hall and the Carnegie Library were set alight and totally destroyed. Cook Street, Winthrop Street and were almost totally destroyed and many shops had been looted of their Christmas stock. The British Military on Sunday afternoon posted armed Soldiers along Patrick Street. They also issued a warning to people not to congregate and to keep their hands out of their pockets. It was not till 10.00 pm on Sunday night that the last of the fires were brought under control and extinguished. The main merchant section of the city was in ruin with over £20 Million worth of damage occurring. The Chief Secretary of Ireland, Hamar Greenwood, denied that the Auxiliaries were involved in the rioting, looting and burning of Cork, but because of the mounting evidence against the Auxiliaries, K Company was moved to Dunmanway and later disbanded in March 1921.

Bishop of Cork Horrified by the escalation violence, the R. C. Catholic Bishop issues Excommunication 12/12/1920 and excommunication decree to anyone 'who organises or takes N/A Decree part in ambushes or murder or attempted murder'

Auxiliary officer from K Company kills a boy ( Tadhg Crowley) + a Dunmanway - two Martin Millerick and Barry 15/12/1920 priest, Fr. Thomas J. Magner at Dunmanway. The Officer was later fatalities Keane declared insane + later discharged. https://en.wikipedia.org/ Glenacurrane Ambush, just north of Mitchelstown, County Cork. wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Two Lorries of 20 soldiers of the Lincolnshire Regiment were Mitchelstown - h_War_of_Independence ambushed by the East Limerick Brigade Column with help from the Glenacurrane and 17/12/1920 Castletownroche Battalion Column (Cork No. 2) and Mitchelstown Ambush - two https://www.cairogang.co Company (Cork No.2 Brigade). 2 soldiers killed and four wounded; fatalities m/soldiers- the other soldiers surrender and their arms are taken from them. killed/mitchelstown/mitch Those killed were Sgt. Leonard Ellis and Private Joseph Minchin. elstown.html The British government passed the 'Government of Ireland Act, https://en.wikipedia.org/ Government of 1920'. The Act proposes to partition the island, creating Northern 23/12/1920 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Ireland Act 1920 Ireland and Southern Ireland, and give each jurisdiction its own h_War_of_Independence Home Rule parliament.

Midleton Ambush - Three policemen were ambushed and killed in Midleton by IRA 28/12/1920 Barry Keane Three Fatalities members - Ernest Dray; Martin Mullen and Arthur Thorp.

British government sanctioned "official reprisals". They were begun https://en.wikipedia.org/ Midleton - burning 29/12/1920 with the burning of seven houses in Midleton in reprisal for an IRA wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris of houses ambush. h_War_of_Independence Date uncertain: Sometime late in 1920, or early in 1921, a British soldier in uniform without badges was caught in the locality: he stated he was a deserter. He was held in arrest for some short time while enquiries were being made. It was eventually decided to Grenagh - Capture execute him after he had been in custody for two days on the farm and Execution - 31/12/1920 Barry Keane of a Matt Donovan of Ballyvalloon, situated about 11/2 miles from Fatality Unknown the village of Grenagh. His remains were buried on the farm. This may be Belchamber missing from Buttevant - http://www.cairogang.com/soldiers- killed/belchamber/belchamber.html Following an attack on a patrol of RIC and Black-and-Tans in Midleton on 29 December, British forces retaliated on 1 January. The Military Governor ordered that specific houses in the vicinity were to be destroyed. These houses belonged to John O’Shea of http://www.corkpastandp Midleton - Midleton, Paul McCarthy of Midleton, Edward Carey of Midleton, 01/01/1921 resent.ie/history/timeline Reprisals the Cotter and Donovan families of Ballyadam and Michael Dorgan -1918-1923/1921.html of Ballygriffin. Midleton Garage and Engineering Works were also burned down, as well as shops in the town. There were no injuries during the operation. The British Military forces issues a statement which was published in The Cork Examiner. Skibbereen - http://www.corkpastandp Accidental A soldier was accidentally shot dead during raids in Skibbereen. 01/01/1921 resent.ie/history/timeline Shooting - One Name Unknown. -1918-1923/1921.html Fatality Doire Fhínín (Ré na Jeremiah Casey, Doire Fhínín, County Cork, with some other boys nDoirí) - Shooting - 03/01/1921 who were on the road, ran on the approach of military lorries and Barry Keane One Fatality was shot dead. Brother Finbarr D’arcy, Riverstown, County Cork, arrested by Riverstown - Arrest 04/01/1921 military in the Imperial Hotel, Cork, at 1 a. m., and afterwards shot Barry Keane and Fatality dead while a prisoner in the hands of the military. Barry Keane and Newmarket - John MacSwiney, aged 15, Newmarket, County Cork, ran away on http://theirishrevolution.i Shooting - One 04/01/1921 the approach of a military lorry who fired upon and mortally e/1921-4/#.XhkOG- Fatality wounded him in the stomach. vgpUM Barry Keane and Timoleague - Volunteer Patrick Donovan, aged 21, was shot at Ballincollop, http://theirishrevolution.i Shooting - One 16/01/1921 Timoleague by military on the 16th January , 1921 e/1921- Fatality 7/#.XhkXFuvgpUM IRA member Denis Hegarty, aged 30, who worked for John Good of Barry Keane and Timoleague - 19/01/1921 Barryroe, Timoleague was taken from his home and shot dead a http://theirishrevolution.i Shooting - One to short distance from the house. He subsequently died, it is believed, e/1921- Fatality 21/01/1921 on 21st January 1921. 9/#.XhkXWuvgpUM Dan Lucey, was suspected as being a spy. He was taken prisoner by - the IRA and was held prisoner for about a fortnight, during which Execution of Spy - 20/01/1921 time he was tried by the Brigade Staff, and sentenced to death. He Barry Keane One Fatality was executed after a fair trial in Kilcorney area, Millstreet Battalion, Cork. The body of Denis Dwyer was found at Farranalough, about 4 miles north-west of Bandon. He had been executed, with two bullet holes in the head. ‘Pinned on his clothes was a label bearing the words “Convicted Spy”. He was 23 years old, a resident of http://theirishrevolution.i Bandon - One Castletown-Kinneigh, and an ex-soldier. He had been wounded 21/01/1921 e/1921- Fatality while serving as a British soldier [attached to the Labour Corps] in 13/#.XijePuvgpUM the Great War and suffered from a withered arm, an affliction that aided the authorities in the identification of his body. He had initially enlisted with the Munster Fusiliers in 1916 and was discharged in 1917. The Cork and Bandon Railway passed through Waterfall, and from mid-1920 onwards the station there was the site of several raids on trains and the mails they carried, and in one dramatic case (in mid- November 1920) it was the site of the abduction and killing of Waterfall - three British officers suspected of acting as spies. After one of Shooting - One 21/01/1921 Barry Keane these train raids early in 1921, RIC Sergeant Henry J. Bloxham and Fatality Head Constable Larkin ‘cycled to Waterfall [from Ballincollig] but were caught in an ambush quickly prepared, and Bloxham was shot dead, his arms and bike being taken, while Larkin got away uninjured’. Patrick Rea (or Ray) was an ex-soldier who worked in Passage West - 22/01/1921 Docks. It is believed he was killed on 22 January 1921. His wife was Barry Keane One Fatality awarded £1,200 and each of the four children £200.

Cork City - One 23/01/1921 Death of Richard Morey; aged 10, on 23rd January, 1921; Cork. Barry Keane Fatality

‘On the 24th of January 1921 Volunteer Daniel O‘Reilly was killed Bandon - Raid - 24/01/1921 when three sections of the 3rd West Cork brigade entered Bandon Barry Keane One Fatality with the intention of attacking the R.I.C. and Military barracks. Cork City: St The Freemans Journal, p.2 reported that Francis Barnane, aged 64, Patrick’s Bridge - 26/01/1921 was knocked down by a police lorry near St.Patrick's Bridge on 26 Barry Keane One Fatality Jan 1921 Two RIC men were killed - Con Thomas Moyles was killed at the scene of the ambush and Divisional Commissioner for Munster Philip Holmes - who had replaced Divisional Commissioner Smyth - http://irishhistory1919- was badly wounded and died the next day. Four other policemen 1923chronology.ie/Jan%2 were injured (Sgt A Charman, Con J H Andrews, Con J Hoare, Con F 01921%20-%2028%20- Tureengariff - D Calder). There were about twenty men in the ambush party %20ambush_at_tureenga Ambush - Two 28/01/1921 armed with five rifles and a light machine gun - the rest had rriff.htm and Fatalities shotguns and revolvers. Among the IRA who took part were Bill https://en.wikipedia.org/ Moylan (Newmarket), Sean Healy (Kilcorney); Denis Galvin wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris (Clonbannin); Dan Vaughan (Ballydesmond); Danny Guiney h_War_of_Independence (Knocknanaugh, ). The IRA got six rifles and a number of other arms - as well as one of the cars. According to Abbott, Sean Moylan prevented his men from abusing prisoners. https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris British troops in county Cork were tipped off by Mrs Mary (or h_War_of_Independence Maria) Lindsay, a local Protestant, about an impending IRA ambush and Barry Keane and at Dripsey to which she had somehow become privy. She first told http://www.irishmedals.ie the local Catholic priest who tried unsuccessfully to dissuade the Dripsey - Ambush /IRA-Killed.php and IRA from the ambush. Firing ensued and 10 were captured; five of and Subsequent http://www.militaryarchiv 28/01/1921 whom were subsequently executed on 28/02/1921. The IRA Executions - Six es.ie/collections/online- executed Mrs Lindsay and her chauffeur, James Clarke, and burned Fatalities collections/military- down her home, Leemount House, in reprisal The men were service-pensions- Thomas O'Brien, Patrick O'Mahony, Timothy McCarthy, John collection-1916- Lyons and Daniel O'Callaghan. A further man captured, James 1923/brigade- Barrett, died from wounds suffered at the ambush on 22/03/1921. activities/operation/drips

ey-ambush/ Richard Foley (15) Cork, shot dead by military while playing in the Cork City - Fatality 29/01/1921 street with another boy of 15, who was also wounded. The troops Barry Keane opened fire without warning. A signalman, Patrick Devitt was one of three railway workers killed or mortally wounded by British forces in the reprisals that http://theirishrevolution.i Mallow Railway immediately followed the IRA attack on RIC County Inspector e/1921- Station Shootings - 31/01/1921 William King and his wife at Mallow. Mrs. King had been killed. The 24/#.Xior2OvgpUM and Four Fatalities other two railway workers were Dennis Bennett and Daniel Barry Keane O'Mullane. Bandon (Laragh) - When Thomas Bradfield’s body was found on the day after his http://theirishrevolution.i Kidnapping - One 01/02/1921 kidnapping at a point about three miles from his house, a label e/1921-27/#.XijhvevgpUM Fatality bearing the words ‘Convicted Spy’ was attached to his remains. and Barry Keane

Drimoleague - One Death of Constable Patrick William Joseph O'Connor RIC; 1st 01/02/1921 Barry Keane Fatality February, 1921; Drimoleague, County Cork. Millstreet - Centenary of the The first execution under martial law of an IRA man took place. first War of https://en.wikipedia.org/ Cornelius Murphy of Ballydaly, Millstreet, was shot by firing squad Independence wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris 01/02/1921 at the Cork Military Barracks after he had been arrested on January Execution by h_War_of_Independence 3rd at his parents’ house in Ballydaly, tried by court martial and

British Authorities and Barry Keane found guilty of having a revolver in his possession under Martial Law - Con Murphy Constables William Taylor and Edward Carter were shot dead in an ambush at Tulligbeg near Ballinhassig on 3 February 1921 by about http://theirishrevolution.i Ballinhassig - sixteen men of the Ballinhassig Volunteer Company under Richard e/1921- Ambush - Two 03/02/1921 O’Mahony (O/C, 9th Battalion, Cork No. 1 Brigade); a third 30/#.XiosHOvgpUM and Fatalities constable named Fuller was seriously wounded. The policemen Barry Keane were attached to the RIC barracks at Ballinhassig; they were returning from buying supplies in a neighboring town when they were attacked from both sides of the road while travelling by bicycle. The IRA took their service revolvers. Constable Taylor had only two months of service with the RIC; he had previously been a soldier.

Volunteer Lieutenant Patrick Crowley Jr. ‘was shot while trying to fight his way out of a round-up’ on Friday, 4 February 1921. An Barry Keane and Kilbrittan - ‘exceptionally strong force’ of military, police, and Black and Tans http://theirishrevolution.i Shooting - One 04/02/1921 from Bandon had converged on Maryborough [near Kilbrittain] and e/1921-34/#.Xiosp- Fatality took in a few adjoining areas; they raided almost every house and vgpUM arrested all men aged from 16 to 60 and brought them to Kilbrittain village for questioning. Cork City - Broad Patrick O'Sullivan, aged 17, Broad Lane, Cork, shot dead by police 06/02/1921 Barry Keane Lane - One Fatality who opened fire on pedestrians in the streets. https://en.wikipedia.org/ British army kills 14 year old boy and wounds two other boys. wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Michael J. Kelleher, aged 14, , County Cork, who while h_War_of_Independence Knocknagree - One 06/02/1921 playing with other boys of his own age, ran away on the approach and Barry Keane, and Fatality of military lorries and was shot dead. Two other boys, aged 8 and http://theirishrevolution.i 11 years, were wounded. e/1921-

37/#.XhmrlOvgpUM Just before a planned IRA attack on a detachment of the King’s Liverpool Regiment in Skibbereen under the command of Skibbereen - One Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Hudson, the bad news came of Volunteer http://theirishrevolution.i Fatality 07/02/1921 Vice-Commandant Patrick O’Driscoll’s death. He ‘had been killed e/1921-38/#.Xiox- (Accidental) accidently over the weekend while on protective duty,’ observed uvgpUM and Barry Keane , ‘and we arrived in time to make arrangements for the obsequies’. Tom Barry was an eyewitness to the tragedy. An IRA sentry going off duty was reciting his duties at Barry’s request for the benefit of O’Driscoll as the new sentry: ‘About halfway through his recital a shot rang out and Pat O’Driscoll swayed towards me. Catching him, I lowered him gently, but he was dead before I placed him on the ground. I turned to the man who had shot him. His face was a mask of consternation, and he dropped the Webley revolver. I spoke to him, but he could not answer, and then, with a moan, he too collapsed, for the man he had accidentally shot was his best friend. . . . It was unpleasant for me to feel that it was the presence of the column commander which had made the scout so nervous that unknowingly he had pressed the trigger and shot Pat O’Driscoll.’ A labourer and a Protestant, civilian William F. B. Johnston was http://theirishrevolution.i Killbrittan - found with a bullet in the back of his head and a note on his body e/1921- Shooting - One 09/02/1921 designating him as a spy. He was shot dead by the IRA at his home. 40/#.Xio0ruvgpUM and Fatality His father Edward Johnston of Kilbrittain, who was deceased by Barry Keane 1921, had been a police sergeant https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris As the Mallow train entered a railway cutting just to the east h_War_of_Independence Millstreet - Train of Millstreet it was ambushed by the IRA (3rd Cork Brigade). Two and Barry Keane and Attack - Two 11/02/1921 soldiers Sgt. F. Boxold and Private Holuome were killed, six soldiers https://www.cairogang.co Fatalities and two civilians were injured m/soldiers- killed/millstreet-

train/millstreet-train.html The labourer Robert Eady was awakened by loud knocks on his http://theirishrevolution.i Clonakilty - door in Clonakilty at about 1 a.m. on 11 February 1921; his dead e/1921- Assassination - One 11/02/1921 body was found later that day near the village of Clogheen with 41/#.Xio2CuvgpUM and Fatality bullet wounds in the back and the head. ‘A label was pinned to his Barry Keane back bearing the words, “Spies and informers beware”.’ Constable Patrick Joseph Walsh ‘was shot dead at Churchtown, about five miles from Charleville, on Saturday night [12 February http://theirishrevolution.i Churchtown - 1921]. He was a native of Turloughbeg, Rossmuck, Connemara, and e/1921- Shooting - One 12/02/1921 was the son of an ex-head constable and publican.’ See FJ, 14 Feb. 46/#.Xio1cuvgpUM and Fatality 1921. The official British report indicated that Walsh had been shot Barry Keane dead ‘within 100 yards of the police barracks [at Churchtown] at 9:45 p.m.’ on that Saturday night. John O'Leary shot and killed by the IRA according to the Cork Examiner which noted that he worked in the barracks and was an ex-soldier. Worked for Captain Kelly (Intelligence Officer) and was Cork City: One 14/02/1921 known to be bringing information to the enemy according to an IRA Barry Keane Fatality statement. The IRA information presumably came from Josephine Marchment Browne who also worked in the office and was a spy for the IRA Two IRA volunteers, the Coffey brothers (James Coffey and https://en.wikipedia.org/ Enniskeane - Timothy Coffee), were assassinated in their beds by unknown wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Assassination of 14/02/1921 gunmen in Enniskeane, Cork. Shot in retaliation for their neighbour h_War_of_Independence Coffey brothers Tom Bradfield’s killing two weeks earlier by the ‘Anti-Sinn Fein

and Barry Keane League’ Cork City - Ballincollig - https://en.wikipedia.org/ Private A. Mason Pvt. A. Mason of the Manchester Regiment went missing near 14/02/1921 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris of the Manchester Ballincollig h_War_of_Independence Regiment went missing Cork City - Ballincollig - https://en.wikipedia.org/ Pvt. B. Tinehes of the Manchester Regiment went missing near Private B. Tinehes 14/02/1921 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Ballincollig of the Manchester h_War_of_Independence Regiment went missing

A train carrying Crown forces swept into the station at Upton where the IRA opened fire.. Eight civilians were killed on the crossfire, with 3 IRA members dying. The attack was carried out by the IRA column of 3rd Cork Brigade led by Charlie Hurley. Accounts of what happened differ; the Military stated that no civilians were Michael Collins House + Upton - Train allowed in carriages occupied by the Military while the I.R.A. Martin Millerick and Barry Ambush - Eleven 15/02/1921 claimed that civilians and Military were dispersed throughout the Keane, and Fatalities train. Intense fire was opened on the entire length of the train the http://theirishrevolution.i moment it stopped in Upton Station, Cork. The I.R.A. men killed e were Pat O'Sullivan, Batt Falvey and Seán Phelan. The Civilians were John Sisk, William Finn, Thomas Perrott Sr., Richard Arthur, Charles Penrose Johnston, John Spiers, James Joseph Byrne and Mary Hall. An IRA ambush position at Mourne Abbey, County Cork, is allegedly betrayed by an informer, Dan Shields. ‘Three men Patrick Flynn, Monee, (aged 25), Patrick Dorgan, Island, (22) and Eamon/Edmond (Ned) Creedon, Clogheen, (20) were shot’ dead. Another man, Mourneabbey - 15/02/1921 Michael Collins House + Michael Looney, Island, (30) died later of his wounds,. Eight Ambush - Four to Wikipedia and Barry prisoners were taken, of whom two were subsequently executed at Fatalities 02/05/1921 Keane Cork on 02/05/1921. They were Patrick Ronayne, aged 24, of Greenhill and Thomas Mulcahy, Toureen, aged 18, both of whom were members of the Burnfort company. Patrick Ronayne was executed on 28/04/1921. https://en.wikipedia.org/ Four unarmed IRA volunteers, who had been digging a trench at wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Kilbrittain- Kilbrittain were arrested by troops of the Essex Regiment and then h_War_of_Independence Shootings - Four 16/02/1921 shot dead. The four dead Volunteers were Jeremiah O’Neill and Barry Keane and Fatalities (Knoppoge), Timothy Connolly, Jack McGrath, and Con McCarthy. http://theirishrevolution.i e/1921- 69/#.XiuQYOvgpUM

James Charles Beale/ Beal was abducted after he left work at 7pm on14/10/1921 as a member of the 'Anti Sinn Fein Society', as were his in-laws Fred and James Blemens who had been abducted the previous November. James Charles was a manager in Woodford Bourne, and was shot probably as a result of information supplied by IRA member Din Din O’Riordain before he was shot for alleged spying. ‘James Charles Beal, a Protestant, was kidnapped and shot Cork City for fraternising with local Auxiliaries (Hart) he was found in a field (Dennehy's Cross) - 16/02/1921 on land owned by Mrs. Dennehy of Dennehy's Cross almost Barry Keane One Fatality opposite Wilton Church face down, arms outstretched. His head a tangled mass of blood’. His funeral service was held in St. Finbarres, and he was afterwards buried at Douglas. His wife Sarah died on 20 December 1921, and is buried at Douglas. Hart page 15 IRA and its enemies for Din Din shooting. Not to be confused with Charles E. Beale Chairman of the employers federation. According to the Cork Constitution on 16th February he had come from England to manage Woodford Bourne eight years earlier. A group of armed and disguised men entered the Cork Union Workhouse. They identified an inmate named Michael Walsh (a Cork City (South 43-year-old former soldier) and ordered him to go outside, where Infirmary Hospital) 18/02/1921 Barry Keane he was shot to death. Walsh was 43 years old, married and lived at - Fatality Kearney’s Lane Cork. Attached to his clothing was a card bearing the words “Caught at last. Spies and informers beware – I.R.A.”. A well-known and extensive Protestant farmer, Mathew Sweetnam long resisted the payment of the levy for the West Cork Brigade Arms Fund. As early as October 1920 the Irish Independent reported that he had been ‘removed to an unknown destination by http://theirishrevolution.i Skibbereen - Sinn Feiners. It is said he resisted the levying of an Arbitration Court e/1921- Executions - Two 19/02/1921 fine and wounded one of the Volunteer police.’ By early February 76/#.Xio6cevgpUM and Fatalities 1921 the headquarters of the West Cork Brigade had issued orders Barry Keane for the execution of Sweetnam and another resisting Protestant farmer named William Connell; their alleged offence was that they ‘had informed the British of the names of the men who had called on them to collect the Arms Fund levy’. 12 Volunteers are killed on Clonmult in East Cork in one of the IRA's worst defeats of the War - The British alleged a false IRA surrender and killed all the IRA volunteers in the house. Four other IRA volunteers were wounded and another four were captured unscathed. Only one escaped. The IRA claimed an informer was to blame and a spate of shootings of six alleged informers ensued during the following week. The greatest loss of life for the Irish Volunteers occurred when the intelligence officer of the Hampshire Regiment tracked the East Cork Flying Column to an abandoned farmhouse in Garrylaurence near the village of Clonmult, seven miles north of Midleton. What ensued has been described as “Kilmichael in reverse”. The column was attacked and besieged by Clonmult - Ambush a combined force of soldiers and R.I.C., with both sides suffering - Fourteen losses. On several occasions during the battle, the British called on Michael Collins House + Fatalities - greatest the besieged men to surrender. The I.R.A. men were not going to Wikipedia + loss of life for Irish 20/02/1921 give themselves up as their future prospects would have been very http://www.corkpastandp Volunteers in the bleak as it was decreed that ‘Any unauthorised person found in resent.ie/history/timeline War of possession of arms, ammunition or explosives would on conviction -1918-1923/1921.html Independence of a military court, suffer death’. The battle lasted several hours, after which 12 Volunteers had been killed at the farmhouse in Garrylaurence. Two more were subsequently executed. These men were James Aherne Cobh. James Glavin Cobh. Liam Aherne Midleton. Jerry Aherne - Midleton. Michael Desmond - Midleton. David Desmond Midleton. Donal Denehy - Midleton. Christopher O'Sullivan - Midleton. Michael Hallinan Midleton. John Joe Joyce Midleton. Joseph Morrissey Athlone. Richard Hegarty Garryroe. Executed in Cork Gaol. Patrick O'Sullivan Cobh. Maurice Moore Cobh. The incident represented the single greatest loss of life for the IRA during the War of Independence. In the week that followed six alleged spies would be executed in County Cork by the IRA. Spike Island - http://www.corkpastandp Transfer of 20/02/1921 150 Irish prisoners were transferred to Spike Island. resent.ie/history/timeline Prisoners -1918-1923/1921.html

Cork City McDonnell was shot at his home on Evergreen Road. He was taken (Evergreen Road) - 23/02/1921 to the military hospital by the British Army which suggests that he Barry Keane One Fatality was working for them A group of RIC men leaving the cinema in Bandon were attacked by members of the Flying Column of the West Cork Brigade under Tom Barry who had entered the town shortly after 8 p.m. on 23 February 1921. The original intention had been to ambush a military patrol of the Essex Regiment, but on their way to the ambush positions Barry and another Volunteer encountered two policemen—Frederick Perrier and Constable Kearns. Perrier sought http://theirishrevolution.i Bandon - Three 23/02/1921 safety in a nearby house, but Barry followed him into it and killed e/1921-98/#.Xiwi5- Fatalities him at point-blank range. In this encounter Constable Kearns was vgpUM seriously wounded. Other members of the Flying Column went into the suburbs of Bandon and kidnapped two Essex Regiment soldiers and two ‘wireless Naval men’ whom they found walking there. They killed the two soldiers—Private James Arthur Knight and Lance Corporal Herbert Leslie Stubbs—but released the two Navy men. Cúl na Cathrach / Coolavokig/Cúl na Cathrach ambush, Ballyvourney. 1st Cork https://en.wikipedia.org/ Coolavokig - Brigade Flying Col. (aided by 7th + 8th Macroom Batts.) led by Sean wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Ambush Baile 25/02/1921 O’Hegarty and Dan ‘Sandow’ O’Donovan kill District Inspector h_War_of_Independence Bhuirne - Three Major James Seafield Grant. Cadet Cleve Soady and RIC Constable

+ Martin Millerick Fatalities Arthur Cane were also killed. Civilian Alfred Cotter, aged 35, a master baker, was shot in the head and mortally wounded while standing outside his front door in Ballineen at about 9 p.m. on 25 February 1921. He died almost immediately. His killers escaped in the darkness. Cotter and his brother Frederick owned and operated a prosperous bakery business in Ballineen. They were the only local traders to refuse to http://theirishrevolution.i Ballineen - One 25/02/1921 obey a boycott of the local RIC imposed by the Ballineen Company e/1921- Fatality of Volunteers, led by Timothy Warren and Jack Hennessy. Besides 103/#.XiwkBuvgpUM violating the boycott, Alfred Cotter allegedly gave information about local Volunteers to the police and the military and even accompanied them when they conducted raids in search of IRA men on the run. Cotter was killed when the West Cork Brigade was ‘cleaning up the British spy ring in West Cork’. At Passage West a roadside memorial erected by Daniel Spillane Passage West - records the death of Michael John O’Mahony who died on 28th 28/02/1921 Barry Keane One Fatality February 1921 of wounds received in action against the Crown forces. He was 18. Members of the Second Battalion of the West Cork Brigade under the leadership of attacked a patrol of six RIC men when they were ‘on mess duty’ within about a hundred yards of the RIC barracks at . See FJ, 2 March 1921; Abbott (2000), 204- 5. A local newspaper reported that on 28 February 1921 Constable http://theirishrevolution.i Rosscarbery - Alfred V. G. Brock ‘was walking past a butcher’s shop in the centre e/1921- Shooting - One 28/02/1921 of Rosscarbery [when] he was fired at by civilians, said to have 104/#.XiwkpevgpUM and Fatality been in hiding close by, and dangerously wounded in the stomach’. Barry Keane He died early the following morning (1 March). Brock had taken ‘a prominent part in the recent sensational battle at Burgatia [House]’, where soldiers and police had almost trapped an IRA party planning an attack on the RIC barracks in Rosscarbery. Lt. Victor B. Murray either committee suicide or killed himself by Barry Keane and Spike Island - One accident while on guard duty at Spike Island Detention Centre. He http://theirishrevolution.i 28/02/1921 Fatality died of his wounds the next day at Queenstown Military Hospital. e/cdm1921-117/#.XiwyW- He was interred in St Mary’s Churchyard at Rostherne in Cheshire. vgpUN Dripsey and Six IRA prisoners (five of whom had been involved in the Dripsey Tipperary - https://en.wikipedia.org/ Ambush (note - see 28/01/1921) were executed by Crown forces in Execution of six IRA 28/02/1921 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris . The sixth man executed was John Allen from prisoners (Cork h_War_of_Independence Tipperary City Gaol) https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris In retaliation for that morning's executions, the IRA shot and killed h_War_of_Independence Cork City - six off-duty British soldiers and wounded five more in separate and Execution of six 28/02/1921 incidents in Cork. Those killed were Private Whitear; Signalman G. https://www.cairogang.co British Soldiers H. Bowden, Private T. Wise, Private William A. Gill, Lance Corporal m/soldiers-killed/cork- J. E. L. G. Beattie and L/Corporal L. D. Hodnett. street-feb-21/Cork- streets.html Maddened by a Volunteer attack earlier that day on an RIC patrol in Charleville, ‘the Tans came into the town . . . looking for blood’ that night. ‘They went to the home of Seán O’Brien, who was a well- known Gaelic Leaguer—he had never served with the Volunteers. http://theirishrevolution.i The Tans knocked at his door, and Seán, without opening the door, Charleville - House e/1921- 01/03/1921 enquired what they wanted, and the Tans’ reply was to fire several Raid - One Fatality 120/#.XiwmvuvgpUM and volleys through the door and [they] also threw some grenades Barry Keane through the fan-light. Poor Seán died almost immediately. [He died on 2 March, seven and a half hours after being shot.] Seán was chairman of the [Charleville] U.D.C. and also president of the Gaelic League branch. Cork City (Great On the 28th of February 1921 three armed and masked men Southern and entered the Great Southern and Western Railway station at Cork Western Railway 01/03/1921 and took away Charles Daly , his dead body was found some hours Barry Keane Station) - One later in a railway tunnel where he had been shot dead near the Fatality platform entrance to the station. Daniel Casey had been shot at the weekend during the reprisals for Cork City (Caroline the executions at the military barracks. He lived on Caroline Street Street) - One 01/03/1921 in Cork City centre but there is no mention of who shot him. He Barry Keane Fatality seems to have been a victim of crossfire. He had been shot in the chest and the bullet pierced a lung. Thomas Cotter Curraclough Klmurray aged 55 taken from home by Barry Keane and masked men and shot dead. On the body was a notice Convicted Kilmurry - Killing of http://theirishrevolution.i 01/03/1921 spy- informers beware. Cork Constitution suggests killing was on Spy - One Fatality e/1921- March 3 in its report of the shooting. Irish Revolution (U.C.C>0 121/#.XiwnbuvgpUM notes 1st March 1921. An unknown man was shot on Castle Street when he failed to respond to the challenge of a British Army patrol to halt. Buried as a pauper This may be Denis O’Brien whose death on 2 March was discussed in the House of Commons on 2 June, This occurred in the martial law area, and I am informed by the Commander-in-Chief Cork City (Castle that the Court of Inquiry in this case found that the deceased man, 04/03/1921 Barry Keane Street) - Fatality Denis O'Brien, was out in a street in Cork City during curfew hours, that he was challenged several times by the curfew patrol, and failing to answer or to stop, was shot. It is most unfortunate that this man should have been exposed to the risk incurred in disregarding the curfew restrictions, but no blame for the unhappy result can attach to the man who fired A resident of Kilcatherine parish in the district, Noble was abducted and remained missing as of late August 1922. Her husband Alexander Noble of Grimsby (a cooper by trade) claimed compensation for her presumed death, which occurred under mysterious circumstances. Born in Scotland but settled by 1911 with his wife’s farming family in far West Cork, he was a British supporter. In a letter sent to Eamon de Valera and dated 8 September 1921, Alexander Noble stated that his wife Bridget had been ‘kidnapped between the village of Ardgroom and Castletownbere on the 4th day of March last’. Bridget Noble’s disappearance caused embarrassment to the IRA GHQ in Dublin, as there was an unwritten but fairly rigid IRA rule against killing women. The reasons for her trial and execution by the IRA became clear only later. In response to a request from IRA GHQ in Dublin, Castletownbere - the leaders of Cork No. 5 Brigade drafted a report dated 21 http://theirishrevolution.i Execution of Spy - 04/03/1921 October 1921. This report pointed out that Bridget Noble had been e/1921- One Fatality seen by some of the men of C Company of the Castletownbere 123/#.Xiwp9evgpUM Battalion going into the local police barracks on four or five occasions and had been seen in conversation with a police sergeant in a private house on two occasions. At one point, after she had returned from a hospital visit, her hair was ‘bobbed’ or shorn, as a punishment ordered by the local IRA battalion. Subsequently, her house was searched (after a military raid) by order of the captain of the Ardgroom Volunteer Company, and in this search part of a letter from the RIC head constable in Castletownbere was found, along with five half-torn letters from other RIC members and two photographs of RIC men. The IRA had also received information that she had told the RIC that Liam Dwyer and Patrick Crowley were the men who had shot and mortally wounded William Lehane (alias William Lyons) as a land grabber on the night of 7-8 May 1920. 4 Members of the Crown forces are killed in an ambush at Clonbanin, County Cork [some commentators alleging that 13 British Soldiers were killed). General Hanway Robert Warren Clonbanin Cummings was returning from a tour of inspection in Kerry with a Barry Keane and (Boherbue) - heavy escort of three lorry loads of troops and an armoured car http://theirishrevolution.i 05/03/1921 Ambush - Four when the convoy was attacked just a few miles west of Kanturk at e/1921- Fatalities Clonbannin. He was the most senior British Officer killed in Cork 125/#.XiwunevgpUM and his death was used as a major propaganda victory by the IRA. Three others were killed: Harold Adolphe de Maligny; Private Harold Turner and Private William Walker Company O. C. Jeremiah O' Mahony had been accidentally shot dead by a comrade Volunteer. Canon O'Connell of Enniskeane was called upon to administer the last rites and, on the suggestion of Enniskeane: Barry Keane and Canon O'Connell, he was buried temporarily in a rifle dump on his Shooting - One http://theirishrevolution.i 05/03/1921 own farm. The following night a rough coffin was produced and Fatality e/1921- removed his remains to the graveyard at Castletown-Kenneigh (Accidental) 124/#.XhnxiuvgpUM where he was buried in the Republican Plot alongside the three Volunteers who had been shot in the Kilmichael ambush some months before. On Saturday, March 5th, the Column was divided into four Sections of six to seven each and distributed to 'C', 'D', 'V and 'G' Companies and a programme of training, where extra men from these Companies could be given a short course, was outlined. The Section Toames Raid - One 06/03/1921 which moved into 'J' Company had a narrow escape from capture Barry Keane Fatality on the night of the 6th of March when the Auxiliaries in force made a surprise raid on Toames and, though the members of the Column escaped under fire, a Volunteer from 'J' Company, named Cornelius Foley, was killed. Members of the Kanturk and Mallow battalions of the Cork No. 2 Brigade under the command of Jack Cunningham and Denis Murphy attacked a patrol of four RIC men at Fr Murphy’s Bridge in the townland of Shronebeha on 8 March 1921. The ambush site http://theirishrevolution.i Banteer - One 08/03/1921 was about one mile from Banteer on the Banteer-Nadd road. e/1921- Fatality Constable Nicholas Somers was killed and Constable McCarthy was 131/#.XiwxrOvgpUM wounded; all four of them were disarmed. Sergeant George and Constable Moran, ‘who were unwounded, were allowed to go free on giving a promise to resign. An extensive and progressive Protestant farmer, John Good was shot and killed as a spy on 10 March 1921 by a party of masked and http://theirishrevolution.i Timoleague - One 10/03/1921 armed men belonging to the IRA. They knocked on his door, asked e/1921- Fatality for him, and mortally wounded him when he appeared. A local 137/#.XhkYIevgpUM medical doctor refused to come to his aid. A large British force carried out a large scale sweep at Nad, County https://en.wikipedia.org/ Cork (in the Boggeragh Mountains). A house with six members of wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris the Mallow IRA column asleep in it was surrounded. An informer h_War_of_Independence Nadd- House Raid - (identified as Dan Shields) had reportedly betrayed the position. and based on the work of 10/03/1921 Four Fatalities Two make their escape (Joe Morgan and John Moloney) but the Barry Keane and other four volunteers are shot dead. These four were Lieutenant http://theirishrevolution.i Edward Waters of Mallow Company and Michael Kiely, Edward e/1921- Twomey and David Herlihy. 136/#.Xiw0GOvgpUN Dáil Éireann https://en.wikipedia.org/ Declares War on Dáil Éireann debated, resolved and finally on 11 March declared 11/03/1921 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris British war on the British administration. h_War_of_Independence Administration Barry Keane and 12/03/1921 An ex-RIC constable and a rural postman, David Nagle was Waterfall - One http://theirishrevolution.i to ‘arrested’ by the IRA on 12 March 1921, charged with espionage, Fatality e/1921-138/#.Xiw0i- 13/03/1921 promptly tried, and executed on the following day. vgpUM A farm labourer aged 57, Timothy Hourihan was shot on a Sunday when a party of Auxiliary police from Dunmanway surrounded the Castletown- district of Castletown-Kinneigh. Hourihan allegedly disobeyed an Kinneigh: One 13/03/1921 order to approach a patrol party and ran off into cover. When he Barry Keane Fatality returned to the site, he was mortally wounded by Auxiliary G. F. Constable and died later that day. His coffin was brought to Bandon Military Barracks. He left a wife and eight children. The Skibbereen Eagle 19 March 1921 p.2 reported that Richard Allihies - One 13/03/1921 Newman wounded by military in Allihies last Sunday had died at 2 Barry Keane Fatality am on Monday morning Thomas Hennessy was working on Sisk’s house in the village of Crosshaven when British forces arrived to carry out house to house searches. As many of the houses were for the Admiralty on Cork Barry Keane and Crosshaven Raid - Harbour and the soldiers in Fort Camden at the end of the town the http://theirishrevolution.i 13/03/1921 One Fatality value of the raid was doubtful. Locals heard two shots from inside e/1921- Sisk’s and when the raiding party left the house they found 140/#.Xiw1IuvgpUM Hennessy dead inside. Locals suggested that the reason given for his shooting was that he had failed to raise his hands in time. Mrs Mary Lindsay and her butler James Clarke were murdered by the I.R.A. Mrs Lindsay had informed the British that the I.R.A. were to ambush a party of British Troops on the morning of January the 28th 1921 between the villages of Coachford and Dripsey County Cork. . It became know that Mrs Lindsay had informed the British of Barry Keane and Dripsey - Two the ambush and she and her butler were abducted on the 17th of http://theirishrevolution.i 14/03/1921 Fatalities February. Five of those captured were sentenced to death and Mrs e/1921- Lindsay was forced to write to General Strickland at Victoria 73/#.XiwfvOvgpUM Barracks Cork to plead for their lives. On March the 12th the I.R.A. burnt down Leemount House, the home of Mrs Lindsay. Mrs Lindsay and James Clarke were executed by the IRA on 14 March 1921 at Flagmount in the Rylane district. Cork City - One [ Michael Joseph Murray] Shot dead at St. Lukes Cross no 15/03/1921 Barry Keane Fatality assailants identified but British troops were in the area at the time

Shot at Kanturk One evening in March 1921 Charlie ‘Cha’ Reilly was travelling with two companions in a pony and trap on the Line Road North Cork when they were challenged by a party of Military. The Kanturk - Shooting three men abandoned the cart and fled across country on foot 15/03/1921 Barry Keane - One Fatality under a hail of bullets. Cha Reilly was mortally wounded but managed to crawl to a nearby cottage where he spent the night, the next day he was taken to his home in Newmarket where he died from his wounds a few days later. A large party of Volunteers under the command of James ONeill http://theirishrevolution.i 18/03/1921 ambushed a police patrol (consisting of one sergeant and six Castletownroche - e/1921- to constables) at ‘The Close’ in Castletownroche on 18 March 1921. One Fatality 144/#.Xiw15OvgpUM and 19/03/1921 Constable William Elton was mortally wounded and died on 19 Barry Keane March. Nellie Carey was mortally wounded at Mill Road in Fermoy on 18 March 1921. She ‘was, according to an official report, in the 18/03/1921 http://theirishrevolution.i Fermoy - Shooting company of soldiers at a fancy fair when they were fired on, two of to e/1921-145/#.Xi4z9- - One Fatality the soldiers being also hit’. She was the daughter of the labourer 20/03/1921 vgpUM Thomas Carey of Redmond Street, Fermoy. She died on Sunday, 20 March, at the Fermoy Military Hospital. Commandant of the West Cork Brigade since August 1920, Charlie Hurley was wounded in the head and face during an attack on British military forces at Upton railway station on 15 February Ballymurphy 1921. He recovered but had badly sprained his ankle and was not http://theirishrevolution.i (Upton) - Shooting 19/03/1921 well enough to join the planned ambush at Crossbarry when on 18 e/1921- - One Fatality March, in the company of brigade intelligence officer Seán Buckley, 160/#.Xi9rhuvgpUM he returned at midnight from the O’Mahony farmstead at Belrose to his headquarters at the Fordes’ farmstead at Ballymurphy, four miles distant. There he was trapped on the following morning by a British raiding party and shot dead outside in the farmyard as he sought to make his escape. Tom Barry claimed that the firing at Ballymurphy could be heard at Crossbarry on the morning of the ambush.

At Crossbarry the IRA evaded an encirclement manoeuvre by the Crown Forces consisting of over 1,200 British troops. The IRA fought their way through, suffering 3 fatalities while inflicting ten on the Crown forces. The engagement is considered one of the largest, if not the largest, of the entire War of Independence. Those Crossbarry - https://en.wikipedia.org/ killed were RIC Constable Arthur Frederick Kenward, Private Ambush - Thirteen 19/03/1921 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Stanley William Steward, Private William Wilkins, Private Joseph Fatalities h_War_of_Independence Thomas Crafter, Private Sydney Robert Cawley, Driver Cyril Gordon Martin, Private and Driver William Alfred Gray, Private and Driver Harold R. Baker, Corporal Edward Watts, Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Turner Hotblack, Volunteer Cornelius (Con) Daly, Volunteer Peter Monahan and Volunteer Jeremiah O'Leary. Cornelius Sheehan (Long Con), Asylum Attendant [Lee Road] shot Cork City (Blarney dead at his house in Blarney St according to Commandant P. J. Street) - One 21/03/1921 Barry Keane Murphy C Company. Cork Examiner reports shooting on March Fatality 21st P.5 A butcher by trade, single, and aged about 26, John Sheehan was abducted on about 5 March 1921 from his mother’s house in or Barry Keane and very near Kanturk by a number of armed men. His body, with a Kanturk - Execution http://theirishrevolution.i 21/03/1921 bullet hole in the forehead, was found in a field on the farm of the - One Fatality e/1921- Archdeacons near Kanturk on 21 March 1921 by the military and 129/#.XiwvkuvgpUM police; it was in a badly decomposed state and was removed to the Kanturk workhouse. On Tuesday, March 22nd, in the course of some searches in the Barry Keane and Conna district, a civilian, Arthur Mulcahy, was shot dead while Conna - Shooting - http://theirishrevolution.i 22/03/1921 allegedly trying to escape. Dan Breen who had been present was One Fatality e/1921-163/#.Xi9tR- driven to Glenville in a horse and trap and from there he was taken vgpUM to Burnfort by some members of the Glenville company. About midday on Tuesday [22 March 1921] a military patrol was on duty in Castle Bernard Park, Bandon. Three young men, one of whom had a fishing rod, were near the river bank in the park, when Bandon - Shooting there was a call, and later a shot rang out. One of the men—Daniel http://theirishrevolution.i of Civilian - One 22/03/1921 Lyons, an ex-soldier—was seen to fall, having received a bullet e/1921- Fatality wound in the calf of the leg, which bled profusely. Some time 164/#.Xi9uGuvgpUM afterwards a police lorry arrived, and the young man was removed to hospital. At seven o’clock the same evening he succumbed to his injuries. Dripsey Ambush James Barrett had been captured at the Dripsey ambush Aftermath - One 22/03/1921 (28.01.1921) by British forces and finally passed away on 22 March Barry Keane Fatality 1921. Note - see 28.01.1921. Following a raid at the house of farmer Cornelius O’Keefe by a large party of crown forces, O’Keefe’s son was arrested and six others (including Daniel Crowley)—all members of the IRA—were shot http://theirishrevolution.i Cork City - 'Kerry 23/03/1921 dead in British custody on 23 March 1921. These killings became e/1921- Pike Murders' known as the ‘Kerry Pike Murders’ among republicans and included 171/#.Xi920uvgpUM Daniel Murphy; Jeremiah Mullane, William Deasy, Michael O'Sullivan and Thomas Dennehy. Kilworth Military Private Jack Howard Self died instantly of an accidental gunshot http://theirishrevolution.i Camp - One 24/03/1921 wound through the heart on 24 March 1921 at Kilworth Military e/1921- Fatality Camp. 172/#.Xi925OvgpUM John Cathcart was managing director of Paisley and Co., Ltd. He had been identified as the head of ‘a ring of spies called Anti-Sinn Féin’ by the headquarters staff of the Cork No. 1 Brigade, which issued an order to Volunteer Paddy O’Reilly of the Youghal Battalion to shoot Cathcart as the ringleader and to tell two of Cathcart’s associates to leave the country. Armed IRA men went to Youghal - his residence on Pearse’s Square in Youghal on 25 March 1921, http://theirishrevolution.i Execution - One 25/03/1921 which was both Good Friday and Lady Day, forcibly entered it, and e/1921- Fatality shot him several times at close range (four gunshot wounds in the 173/#.Xi93aOvgpUM back). Near the body they left an envelope with the words: ‘Convicted spy.—Spies and informers, beware.—I.R.A.’ That Cathcart was helping the British seems likely: ‘A few hours later [i.e., after the killing], Auxiliary cadets hung a board inscribed with the word “Revenge” on a tree in his garden to warn locals to expect reprisals for Cath[c]art’s killing. Formerly a British army captain, William Good had returned home from Dublin, where he was an engineering student at Trinity College Dublin, to look after the interests of his persecuted family http://theirishrevolution.i Timoleague - One 26/03/1921 after his father John Good had been shot dead near Ballycatteen as e/1921-174/#.Xhn1L- Fatality a spy by the IRA on 10 March 1921. He went in a pony and trap to vgpUM visit some friends from TCD in Bandon. He was waylaid and killed on his return journey on 26 March. Timothy Whooley, a member of the Second or Clonakilty Battalion of the West Cork Brigade, ‘was on duty at Shannonvale Cross on the Bandon road. He was armed with a “Peter the Painter”, which he placed on the ground. The gun was picked up by one of his colleagues, who knew little of the intricacies of the weapon, and before anyone could realise what was happening, Tim Wholly [sic] was shot through the head and died almost immediately. The Templebryan enemy forces learned of the occurrence within a short time. They http://theirishrevolution.i (Clonakilty) - searched every house in the area but failed to find the body. They 27/03/1921 e/1921- Shooting - One arrested the man who fired the shot, but in the absence of the 175/#.Xi94xOvgpUM Fatality body, or apparently any definite information, they were unable to charge him.’ See Ted Hayes’s WS 1575, 9 (BMH).ed Hayes explicitly assigned this accidental death to 23 February 1921, but Tom Barry placed the death on 22 March of that year. Whooley’s memorial marker and the family gravestone in Churchyard both give 27 March 1921 as the date of his death. Whooley’s death certificate (registered in the Clonakilty District on 24 March 1922) confirms his date of death as 27 March 1921 http://theirishrevolution.i An ex-soldier Denis Donovan was shot and killed in Bandon. Not to e/1921- Bandon - Shooting 29/03/1921 be confused with Denis Finbarr Donovan shot in April at 176/#.Xhn3revgpUM and - One Fatality Ballygarvan. based on the work of Barry Keane Described as one of the ‘best-known residents’ of Innishannon, Frederick Charles Stenning was gunned down at about 9:30 p.m. on Thursday night, 31 March, reportedly after he had answered a http://theirishrevolution.i Innishannon - One knock on the hall door (details of this report were soon revised). e/1921- 30/03/1921 Fatality Stenning had become a target of the IRA because of his loyalist 177/#.Xi96AOvgpUM and associations and also because he had been observed watching as Barry Keane members of the local Volunteer battalion took up ambush positions at Granure on the road from Bandon to Ballineen https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris The West Cork IRA Column, under Tom Barry, attacked Rosscarbery h_War_of_Independence Rosscarbery - RIC RIC Barracks, which stood on a hill near the village, with explosives and Barracks Attack - 30/03/1921 causing the death of Sgt Ambrose Shea and Constable Charles H. https://irishconstabulary.c Two Fatalities Bowles. Nine other Constables were wounded, one of them, om/old-ric-barracks- Constable Kinsella, seriously. rosscarbery-co-cork-2009- t587.html Local George Wilson was killed accidentally by a grenade which exploded the day after the attack on the Barracks. His wife Sarah claimed £8,000 and received £2,000. The file at Kew also records the death of Patrick Collins who was also fatally injured in the https://en.wikipedia.org/ explosion which was caused when a fourteen year old girl found a wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Rosscarbery - grenade left over from the battle the previous day and handed it to h_War_of_Independence Explosion - Three one of the Auxiliaries who were sifting through the rubble looking and Fatalities including 31/03/1921 for Bowles and Shea. Unsurprisingly he threw it as far away from https://irishconstabulary.c death of a four him as he could and it exploded wounding most of the people in om/old-ric-barracks- year old civilian the vicinity. rosscarbery-co-cork-2009- On 18/10/1921 the death was recorded in the Irish Independent of t587.html a four year old boy [Cornelius Francis Fitzpatrick] who was killed by shrapnel when the IRA exploded a mine at the building the previous March. Barry Keane and Farren - One Volunteer James Foley, column leader, was shot at Farran on the http://theirishrevolution.i 01/04/1921 Fatality 1st April 1921, while on active service. e/cork-fatality-register- index/#.Xhm7IOvgpUM A member of the First Battalion of the Manchester Regiment, http://theirishrevolution.i Ovens - Private F. Roughley reportedly disappeared from Ballincollig 01/04/1921 e/1921- Dissappearence Military Barracks on 1 April 1921. He was later killed (perhaps 184/#.Xi97sevgpUM about 15 June) by the IRA and secretly buried.

Constable Frederick H. Lord, aged 33, was killed while on short leave by a dozen IRA men at Mashanaglass near Carrigadrohid (four miles east of Macroom) as he and another RIC constable were Carrigadrohid - returning in a pony and trap from Macroom to their barracks at Shooting - One 08/04/1921 Barry Keane Carrigadrohid. Shot five times, Lord fell dead from the trap onto Fatality the road, but the other constable, though wounded, whipped the pony into a gallop and escaped in spite of being pursued for over half a mile by the attackers. Volunteer Liam Hoare shot at Ballymacoda East Cork and died Barry Keane and Ballymacoda - subsequently. On Saturday 9 March 1948 the Dungarvan Leader http://theirishrevolution.i Shooting - One 08/04/1921 observed that in Ballymacoda a committee to erect memorial to e/1921-186/#.Xi-Cx- Fatality late IRA captain Liam Hoare was being formed in the parish. vgpUM Cork City (Victoria Major Gerard Thomas Joseph Barry was shot accidently by the Barracks) - 08/04/1921 sentry at Victoria Barracks. South Wales Borderers; Commandant Barry Keane Shooting - One detention barracks. Fatality Constables George Woodward and Joseph Boynes were walking Killdorrery - http://theirishrevolution.i while unarmed at Scart near Kildorrery on 10 April 1921 when both Shooting - Two 10/04/1921 e/1921-190/#.Xi- of them were shot and killed by members of the Castletownroche Fatalities E3uvgpUM Battalion of the Cork No. 2 Brigade. Civilian Denis Donovan was shot as a spy on Brigade instructions in Ballygarvan - One 12/04/1921 Ballygarvan on 12th April, 1921. A label "spies and informers Barry Keane Fatality beware" was placed on his chest.’ Kilworth Military Private Horace Potter died by accident as a result of a primary http://theirishrevolution.i Camp - One 13/04/1921 gunshot wound to the head, with laceration of the brain, inflicted e/1921-193/#.Xi- Fatality at Kilworth Military Camp on 13 April 1921. FrevgpUM Blarney and IRA volunteers capture Major Geoffrey Lee Compton Smith on 16 Donoughmore - April in Blarney, Co Cork and was held hostage in the Abduction and 16/04/1921 https://en.wikipedia.org/ Donoughmore area. The volunteers promised the Majors release in subsequent to wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris return for the release of 4 IRA prisoners. The request was refused Execution of Major 28/04/1921 h_War_of_Independence and 8 prisoners were executed, in reprisal the IRA Volunteers Geoffrey Lee executed the Major near Donoughmore on the 28 April. Compton Smith Shot by the Essex regiment who had traced his whereabouts. Cork City (Douglas Douglas Street is 50 metres from St. Nicholas Church where Street) - One 17/04/1921 Barry Keane Constable John Cyril MacDonald was shot and wounded two days Fatality before.

Cobh - Sinn Féin 30 Sinn Féin prisoners were deported from Queenstown, Co. Cork, Prisoners deported 19/04/1921 Irish Bulletin Volume 1 to an unknown destination, in a British War Vessel. from Queenstown

At Ballinagree Patrick Goggin (7 years old) was shot by Auxiliaries. Ballingree - He died of his injuries on 5/5/1921. The Cork Examiner reported on Shooting - One 21/04/1921 22/4/1921, 23/4/1921& 6/5/1921. A monument to him was Barry Keane Fatality (aged 7) erected in Carrigthomas, Ballinagree in 1996 on the entrance to his home. In the course of military operations in the district of Banteer, where he and other British soldiers were then stationed, John Henry George Marquis, a drummer attached to the First Battalion of the http://theirishrevolution.i Banteer - One 25/04/1921 Gloucestershire Regiment, was mortally wounded by a bullet to the e/1921-198/#.XjCZZ- Fatality head fired accidentally by one of his comrades. He was taken to vgpUM and Barry Keane Kanturk and then to Buttevant Military Hospital, where he died a few hours later. British soldier Norman Thornton Fielding, stationed at Buttevant Churchtown - http://theirishrevolution.i Military Barracks, was out walking near Freemount when he was Execution - One 26/04/1921 e/1921-199/#.XjCac- captured and abducted by the IRA. His body was found one mile Fatality vgpUM and Barry Keane west of Buffers Cross on the Liscarroll-Buttevent road. Barry Keane and Cork City Stephen O’Callaghan of Rutland Street was shot on Anderson’s http://theirishrevolution.i (Anderson's Quay) 29/04/1921 Quay. He was an ex-soldier. e/1921- - One Fatality 200/#.Xhu4ROvgpUM http://theirishrevolution.i Bandon - One Death of Constable John Edward Bunce, RIC; 29th April, 1921; e/1921- 29/04/1921 Fatality Cork. 201/#.XjCbMevgpUM and Barry Keane Constables William Albert Smith and John F. Webb went unarmed to join two of their comrades who had gone fishing after dinner in the demesne adjoining their barracks at Castlemartyr on 30 April 1921. Suddenly, while they were fishing, a dozen armed men surrounded them and opened fire. Smith appears to have died on http://theirishrevolution.i Castlemartyr - Two 30/04/1921 the spot; Webb was fatally wounded. The incident occurred a few e/1921-203/#.XjCb9- Fatalities hundred yards from the Castlemartyr RIC barracks.In a set of vgpUM reprisals for these killings, British soldiers destroyed the houses of Castlemartyr residents Patrick Hegarty and William Connell as well as the houses of Clonmult residents Ellen Cronin and Michael Fitzgerald—all on 6 May. Three Sinn Féin prisoners escaped from Spike Island. The prisoners were undergoing penal servitude in the camp, and they made their http://www.corkpastandp Spike Island - 30/04/1921 escape across the Harbour in a motorboat. The men involved were resent.ie/history/timeline Rescue Sean MacSwiney (brother of the late Lord Mayor Terence -1918-1923/1921.html MacSwiney), Thomas Malone and Cornelius Twomey. In Carrigtwohill Michael O’Keeffe, a former soldier, was taken from http://www.corkpastandp Carrigtwohill - his home and executed by IRA men on 30th April 1921. His body resent.ie/history/timeline Execution - One 30/04/1921 was found 200 yards away with a label attached to it, declaring him -1918-1923/1921.html Fatality

a spy. and Barry Keane Arthur J. Harrison was travelling from Carrigadrohid to Coachford railway station in a motor bread van. He was on his way home since he had completed his service. He was kidnapped near Coachford railway station on the afternoon of 30 April 1921 and http://theirishrevolution.i Clondrohid - later killed.. Owing to his wife’s ill health, he ‘had resigned on the 30/04/1921 e/1921- Disappearance day that he was kidnapped’. He had reportedly been responsible 205/#.XjCcpevgpUM for a large number of arrests of suspected Volunteers in the district and was shot outside Coachford village. Prior to his short service with the RIC (he had joined on 24 September 1920), ex-Constable Harrison had been a soldier and a labourer. Fianna Éireann Scout Joseph Coughlan, aged 14, was shot and mortally wounded at Sunfort Hill (just north of Liscarroll) by Liscarroll Ambush - soldiers of the East Lancashire Regiment while he was acting as a http://theirishrevolution.i Shooting - One 30/04/1921 guide for an IRA advance party, whose members ran away when e/1921-206/#.XjCdl- Fatality (aged 14) challenged by the troops. Sunfort Hill was only about 200 yards vgpUM and Barry Keane from Coughlan’s residence. One report claimed that he had failed to obey a military order to halt and had been shot for that reason. Two Volunteer deaths in the Knockanevin/Shraharla ambush were confirmed by the following report of their funerals: ‘The funerals of the two unknown men [James Horan and Patrick Starr] who were http://theirishrevolution.i 01/05/1921 Srahala Ambush - killed in the ambush near Kildorrery took place on Ascension e/1921- to Four Fatalities Thursday [5 May] from St Patrick’s Church, Fermoy. It is also now 207/#.XjCedOvgpUM 02/05/1921 known that Volunteer Captain Timothy Hennessy and also died as Barry Keane a result of wounds sustained that day and Volunteer Patrick Casey also died, having been executed after capture on May 2nd 1921. Clonakilty - 03/05/1921 Two RIC men are killed in a shop in Barrack St., Clonakilty, Co. http://irishhistory1919- Shooting - Two to Cork. One (Constable James Cullen) dies the same day while the 1923chronology.ie/may_1 Fatalities 09/05/1921 other (Constable Martin Fallon) dies six days later. 921.htm

A civilian called James Saunders was captured by Tim Sexton in Barry Keane and Carrignavar - Carrignavar and was executed and buried in a nearby bog. He was http://theirishrevolution.i Execution - One 05/05/1921 subsequently disinterred and re-buried. He had admitted giving the e/1921- Fatality police the information about the Mourne abbey ambush’. 215/#.XjC4ZuvgpUM Volunteer John Mark Stokes A farmer’s son and farm labourer, Stokes died at Knockearagh near Kanturk of shock and hemorrhage Tullylease - caused by gunshot wounds inflicted by crown forces. His IRA http://theirishrevolution.i Shooting - One 05/05/1921 pension service claim indicates that he was killed while scouting for e/1921- Fatality an Active Service Unit near Tullylease in the Charleville district on 5 213/#.XjCheevgpUM May 1921. He was a member of A Company of Second Battalion of the Cork No. 4 Brigade. James Lynch was taken from his house at Whitegate in the http://theirishrevolution.i Whitegate - House Midleton district just before midnight on 5 May 1921 and killed 05/05/1921 e/1921- Raid - One Fatality about 200 yards away. According to a British military record, Lynch 214/#.XjCiSuvgpUM ‘had been friendly with a family now under military protection’. Cork City (South Civilian William B. Purcell was abducted on 6 May and his dead Main Street) - One 06/05/1921 body was found the next day in a field near Turner’s Cross, not far Barry Keane Fatality from Tory Top Lane, where other IRA executions had taken place. Barry Keane and Private Thomas Collins shot and killed returning from a dance in Youghal - Shooting http://theirishrevolution.i 07/05/1921 the military barracks in the town of Youghal. Patrick Lynass was - One Fatality e/1921- injured in the attack. 217/#.XjC5mOvgpUM John Hodnett, a farmer of Lislee, Courtmacsherry, County Cork, Courtmacsherry - was shot by a party of Crown forces owing to his failure to halt Shooting of Civilian 08/05/1921 Barry Keane when challenged, and he died the same day from the effects of his - One Fatality wounds. https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Three Carrigtwohill Volunteers—William Bransfield, Jack Hayes, Carrigtwohill - h_War_of_Independence and an IRA man named Keegan (a blacksmith)—were dragged from Shooting - One 08/05/1921 and their homes by a party of disguised men. Bransfield was shot dead. Fatality http://theirishrevolution.i The other two escaped. e/1921- 220/#.Xhu6bOvgpUM Barry Keane and Cork City (Cook Constable Frederick Sterland was fatally shot while off duty and as http://theirishrevolution.i Street) - One 08/05/1921 he was just about to enter the Rob Roy Hotel on Cook Street in e/1921- Fatality Cork city by three men who had supposedly befriended him. 218/#.XjhU1xfgpUM There was a general IRA plan to seize bicycles: ‘Hurley had gone with two local Volunteers to collect bicycles near Bandon. As the trio entered Scott’s yard, they ran into a patrol and were captured.’ http://theirishrevolution.i Bandon - Shooting 09/05/1921 Volunteer Captain Frank (John Francis) Hurley made ‘a gallant bid e/1921- - One Fatality to escape by making a bolt into the nearby wood. In his dash for 221/#.XjC6uuvgpUM freedom Hurley was shot down, and his death deprived the brigade of a great and inspiring leader.’ Barry Keane and Murragh - One IRA volunteer Geoffery Canty from Newcestown was shot dead at http://theirishrevolution.i 09/05/1921 Fatality Murragh. e/1921- 222/#.XjC7jOvgpUM Killbrittan - I.R.A. Volunteer Lieutenant Cornelius (Con) Murphy was shot dead Shooting - One 11/05/1921 by soldiers from the Essex Regiment at Cloundreen Kilbrittan. He Barry Keane Fatality was from Clachfluck Timoleague County Cork. Courtmacsherry - Lance Corporal Roland Maddell was shot in Courtmacsherry when Shooting - One 14/05/1921 members of the IRA entered the village and opened fire on British Barry Keane Fatality soldiers. https://www.cairogang.co 6 soldiers were walking along the road between Bantry and m/soldiers-killed/beara- Castletownbere at around 6pm. Three of the soldiers were shot peninsula/beara- dead and another wounded when ambushed. The soldiers were off peninsula.html and duty and unarmed at the time. It is reported that a group of three https://en.wikipedia.org/ Castletownbere - local girls had invited the soldiers to walk to a local waterfall with wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Ambush - Three 14/05/1921 them, the girls disappeared just before the IRA arrived. The event h_War_of_Independence Fatalities was investigated by a military court of inquiry at Rerrin Camp on and Bere Island on 16 May 1921 rather than by the customary inquest. http://theirishrevolution.i The soldiers were John Alexander Hunter, Robert McMillan and e/1921-231/#.XjC- Donald Chalmers. wuvgpUM and Barry Keane The ‘Blackpool ambush’ was a notable but grisly IRA success. At about 4 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, 14 May 1921, a patrol of seven police (two sergeants and five constables) from the Shandon RIC station was attacked on O’Connell Street near William O’Brien Cork City - http://theirishrevolution.i Street by members of the Cork No. 1 Brigade, two of whom threw a Blackpool Ambush 14/05/1921 e/1921- bomb into the midst of the patrol. The explosion that followed was - Three Fatalities 228/#.XjC95evgpUM ‘loud enough to be heard almost all over the city’. The blast mortally wounded three constables: Constable Peter Coughlan; Constable John Ryle and Constable Patrick Hayes. Constable Hayes died on 23/05/1921. Innishannon - Constable John Kenna of the RIC was shot dead near Innishannon http://www.corkpastandp Shooting - One 14/05/1921 Barracks on 14 May. According to reports, up to 15 shots were fired resent.ie/history/timeline Fatality at him. -1918-1923/1921.html Private Francis William Shepherd died of wounds from IRA fire that struck him while he was a member of an armed guard protecting a party of military and police who were playing football in the grounds of Bandon Grammar School near Devonshire Square—now called Allen Square after William Philip Allen, one of the three ‘Manchester Martyrs’ of November 1867. What is now Hamilton High School near Allen Square in Bandon was used in 1920-21 as a British military barracks and headquarters. According Barry Keane and Bandon - Shooting to a well-informed local account, Private Shepherd was mortally 14/05/1921 http://theirishrevolution.i - Two Fatalities wounded on the playing pitch of what is now Hamilton High School. e/1921-232/ A British military report indicated that Shepherd, one member of the picket, had been killed in the first burst of IRA fire at just before 6 p.m. on 14 May 1921. Involved in the IRA attack, which lasted until about 6:30 p.m., were Tom Barry, Seán Lehane, Peter Kearney, Mick Crowley, and Billy O’Sullivan; they staged their attack in a car on which was mounted a Lewis gun captured by the IRA in the Crossbarry ambush. Two civilians were injured in the crossfire, and one of them (Cornelius Looney) died that night. Three RIC were shot and killed in Midleton. These men were Sergeant Joseph E. Coleman, Constable Thomas Cornyn and Constable Harold Thompson. Constable Thompson was from Australia. On the night of 14-15 May, after the killing earlier in the Barry Keane and Midleton - 14/05/1921 day of RIC Constables Coleman, Cornyn, and Thompson in http://theirishrevolution.i Shootings - Four to Midleton, ‘a large party of Cameron Highlanders came into e/1921-239/#.XjDA7- Fatalities 15/05/1921 Midleton and commenced raiding houses. Some of the soldiers vgpUM went in the direction of the local golf links, where they chanced to meet a youth named MacNamara, who was walking to his home along the railway line. The military shot and killed MacNamara.’ His death was recorded on 15th May 1921. Gunner Bernard Francis and another British marine (William East Ferry - Parker) were abducted on 14 May 1921 by members of the http://theirishrevolution.i Execution - Two 14/05/1921 Ballinacurra Company of the Midleton Battalion, shot dead at e/1921-236/#.XjDAR- Fatalities Loughcarrig near their barracks at East Ferry, and dumped in a local vgpUM and Barry Keane quarry. https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris h_War_of_Independence + http://www.corkpastandp British forces in Carrigtwohill, Cork, shoot three civilians dead. In resent.ie/history/timeline Carrigtwohil - Carrigtwohill three men, Michael Aherne, John Ryan and Richard -1918-1923/1921.html House Raids - Five 15/05/1921 Flynn, were taken from their homes by Crown forces and shot and Fatalities dead. Edward McNamra and Richard Barry were also killed. http://theirishrevolution.i e/1921- 243/#.XjDCWevgpUM and http://theirishrevolution.i e/1921- 243/#.XjDGKuvgpUM Fr. James O’Callaghan was shot on Sunday 15 May in the house of Liam De Róiste at Janemount in Sunday’s Well. Alderman De Róiste had recently been returned as a member of Parliament for Cork city. Father O’Callaghan was removed to the North Infirmary for Newcestown and treatment but died of his injuries later that evening. The Cork http://www.corkpastandp Cork City: Father 15/05/1921 Examiner reported that a group of armed and disguised men resent.ie/history/timeline James O'Callaghan entered the house shortly before four o’clock in the morning. De -1918-1923/1921.html murdered Róiste, presumably the intended target of the raid, was not at home at the time. The priest, a native of Newcestown, occupied a flat in the residence, where he was shot. He was well-known in the city and was a scholar of the . Barry Keane and Cork City - House Mr Sheehan of Langford Row of Summerhill South was shot and http://theirishrevolution.i 15/05/1921 Raid - One Fatality killed e/1921- 247/#.XjDH2uvgpUM Constable shot and killed near Skibbereen on May 15. The Skibbereen - Skibbereen Eagle records the compensation claims the following Shooting - One 15/05/1921 October in which his father Hugh claimed £5,000 for the loss of his Barry Keane Fatality son. The father (44 ) had also been in the police along with his two sons. Constable Hugh McLean was 21 and the award was £1,200. Glenville - Exeution Walsh was apparently the informant for Clonmult. His identity was and Disappearance 16/05/1921 ‘Amongst the information received from the intelligence officers in Barry Keane - One Fatality Fermoy Barracks. His name was David Walsh Volunteer Daniel O’Brien was found guilty by a drumhead court- martial at Victoria Barracks on a charge of possessing weapons and ammunition. He was promptly executed at Cork Military Detention Barracks on 16 May 1921. (He was the last of ten County Cork prisoners to be executed.) He had been captured at O’Donnell’s of Aughrim near Liscarroll on the morning of 11 May 1921. He was there with his brother Paddy, the Vice O/C of the Cork No. 2 Liscarroll - Cork Brigade, and John (Jack) O’Regan, quartermaster of the Charleville City (Victoria Battalion. Finding to their great surprise and consternation that http://theirishrevolution.i Barracks) - 16/05/1921 British soldiers of the South Lancashire Regiment had surrounded e/1921- Execution - One the house, they raced to the back and made a run for it, but shots 249/#.Xhx3eyc3a2w Fatality were fired at them, and Jack O’Regan fell wounded. Dan O’Brien stayed with his wounded comrade but urged Paddy to keep going, and Paddy managed to escape. Dan and Jack were captured. See O’Donoghue (1954, 1986), 169-70. ‘The charge against the prisoner [Dan O’Brien] at his trial on Saturday afternoon [14 May 1921] was the possession of a revolver and twelve rounds of ammunition, one of which had the top of the bullet cut off and slit. The evidence for the prosecution was that [the] accused was caught in a round-up on May 11, and when searched, the arms were found on him. When asked to plead, he said: “I have no defence; I was caught as a soldier, and you can try me.”’

A member of B Company of the Eighth Battalion of the Fermoy Military Brigade, Volunteer Patrick Walsh was wounded in the left thigh in http://theirishrevolution.i Hospital - One 18/05/1921 a clash with crown forces at Knocknagress near Tullaroan in County e/1921- Fatality Kilkenny on 13 May 1921. He died in Fermoy Military Hospital on 224/#.XjC8gevgpUM 18th May 1921. Barry Keane and Cork City (Lower Lance Corporal Arthur Wilfred Lavington Hill was shot and killed http://theirishrevolution.i Glanmire Road) - 18/05/1921 on the Lower Glanmire Road e/1921- One Fatality 250/#.XjDJmuvgpUM

Barry Keane and Ballyhooley - Mr Bourke was shot dead in Ballyhooley. At Ballyhooley a farmer’s http://theirishrevolution.i Shooting - One 20/05/1921 son named William Bourke was shot dead by the military because e/1921- Fatality he ‘refused to halt when called upon.’ 253/#.XjDKJuvgpUM

Donoughmore - 21/05/1921 Peter O’Callaghan died on 21 May 1921 Barry Keane One Fatality

An ex-soldier with the Munster Fusiliers, Patrick Keating was shot Cork City (Shandon 22/05/1921 in the abdomen by a military patrol of the Hampshire Regiment in http://theirishrevolution.i Street) - One to on Sunday night, 22 May 1921, and was taken to e/1921- Fatality 25/05/1921 the North Infirmary. He died there on 25 May and was buried in St 254/#.Xhx61Cc3a2w Joseph’s Cemetery two days later The son of a well-known Cork musician, Stephen Dorman worked in the readers and compositors' department of the Cork Examiner newspaper. On May 23, having finished his night shift, he left the Cork City (Douglas offices at Academy Street at about 3 a.m., accompanied by work Street) - One 23/05/1921 Barry Keane colleagues. They were walking home and had passed the top of Fatality Nicholas Street to walk down Douglas Street when a bomb was thrown and they came under revolver fire. Stephen took the main impact of the blast. Charleville - Two British soldiers of the 1st Battalion Machine Gun Corps [names https://en.wikipedia.org/ Execution of two unknown] claim to be deserters to the IRA near Charleville, County 23/05/1921 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris British Soldiers Cork; however they are both executed as being suspected h_War_of_Independence (Unidentified) Intelligence operatives General Election for the Northern and Southern parliaments created under the Government of Ireland Act of 1920 which General Election 24/05/1921 legalised partition. Sinn Féin politicians see this election as a basis for membership of the Second Dáil and have 124 TDs elected unopposed. Seymour Lewington Vincent was captured near Watergrasshill under suspicion of engaging in intelligence-gathering activities: ‘He was disguised as an ordinary tramp. In his possession was found a notebook containing a list of names of persons known to be loyal http://theirishrevolution.i Glenville - Shooting to the British connection. ‘Lieutenant Vincent was removed to the 24/05/1921 e/1921-258/#.XjDMM- - One Fatality Glenville area under guard, and arrangements were being made for vgpUM his trial. On the morning of the day following his capture, British forces began a round-up of the area in which he was held, and the prisoner made a desperate attempt to escape. He was shot down and killed.’ Note: A farmer and ex-soldier, Patrick Hickey was shot dead while cutting turf in a bog at Laravoolta near Enniskeen. A court of military inquiry found that Hickey ‘was accidentally shot by the military during a conflict with rebels who had refused to halt when called upon, and [who] were endeavouring to escape across the bog where the unfortunate man was turf-cutting’. See CE, 24 June Newcestown information 1921. Evidence at the military court indicated that a party of the and Newcestown - One King’s Own Scotch Borderers Regiment had killed Hickey when he 24/05/1921 http://theirishrevolution.i Fatality threw himself on the ground in response to a soldier’s shout and e/1921- made for a hole in the bog but was fatally struck by a bullet in the 259/#.Xhx5jyc3a2w chest. See Military Inquests, WO 35/150/70 (TNA). The victim’s widow Mary Hickey claimed £6,000 in compensation at the Bandon quarter sessions in January 1922 for the death of her husband at the hands of British troops in the previous May. County Court Judge Hynes granted her £1,400 and an additional £1,600 to be divided equally among her four children.

Members of the Dublin Brigade raid and burn the Customs House https://en.wikipedia.org/ Dublin - Customs 25/05/1921 in Dublin. Approximately 80 IRA Volunteers were captured by wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris House Crown Forces h_War_of_Independence

A Catholic ex-soldier aged 22, Christopher O’Sullivan was Barry Keane and Cork City kidnapped from his house by ‘two strong, tall, young men. He was http://theirishrevolution.i (Dennehy's Cross) - 26/05/1921 dragged down River Lane, put into a motor car, and driven off.’ He e/1921- One Fatality was shot dead in a field adjoining the Model Farm Road near 260/#.XjDNfuvgpUM Dennehy’s Cross on 26 May 1921. On the morning of May 28th., 1921, Diarmuid O'Hurley, Officer Commanding the East Cork column, set out from a house near Midleton to confer with local officers at Carrigtwohill. He travelled the side roads in an attempt to avoid detection. He was, however, surprised by a foot patrol of Black and Tans accompanied by two Midleton Barry Keane and members of the R.I.C., who unexpectedly appeared around a bend (Gurtacrue) - http://theirishrevolution.i 28/05/1921 in the road at Gurtacrue. O’Hurley made a dart for the open Shooting - One e/1921- country and had put about a quarter of a mile between himself and Fatality 264/#.XjbaQxfgpUM the enemy when he was fatally struck by a bullet. He was buried secretly by his comrades the next day in a tomb at North Churchtown Cemetery; after the Truce he was reburied with full military honours in the Republican Plot at Holy Rosary Cemetery in Midleton.

Left Ballincollig barracks where he had come under suspicion of Barry Keane and Ovens (ref Bantry) - trying to get information from the detainees. Daniel McCarthy http://theirishrevolution.i Shooting - One 28/05/1921 (from Bantry) was picked up by members of the local IRA who were e/1921- Fatality waiting for him and he was shot at Ovens. 261/#.XjDN6evgpUM

Mallow Both men (Thomas Fitzgerald and Henry Fitzgerald) were taken 28/05/1921 (Ballyshehan) - from their home near Mallow on the pretext of helping to make a to Barry Keane House Raid - Two trench. Both were shot and Thomas died instantly. Henry died the 29/05/1921 Fatalities following day It was claimed that they were spying William McCarthy had earlier retired from the British army’s Royal Irish Regiment. On 23 May 1921 he left his home in Mallow to go to Mourneabbey in order to shoot rabbits. He was never seen again. Barry Keane and In response to an appeal after the Truce of 11 July 1921, his widow Mourneabbey - http://theirishrevolution.i 29/05/1921 received a letter from the Adjutant’s Department at the One Fatality e/1921- headquarters of the Cork No. 4 Brigade (dated 12 September 265/#.XjDP6OvgpUM 1921), stating that her husband had been tried by court-martial on 23 May, found guilty of espionage, and sentenced to death. The letter noted that the sentence had been carried out on 29 May. William McCarty (an ex-British Soldier) was tried by court-martial http://theirishrevolution.i Mallow - Execution on 23 May, found guilty of espionage, and sentenced to death. The 29/05/1921 e/1921- - One Fatality sentence had been carried out on 29 May. He left not only his wife 265/#.XjbavBfgpUM Bridget but four children as well. John Joseph O'Connell, over 60 years of age - the owner of a forge Barry Keane and Cobh - Shooting - in a local quarry, was walking along the seafront at Cobh when a http://theirishrevolution.i 29/05/1921 One Fatality patrol of the Cameron Highlanders came along. One of the officers e/1921- drew his revolver and shot him. 267/#.XjbdfhfgpUM The landmine explosion that devastated the Hampshire regimental band as it marched from Youghal to the rifle range outside that town on 31 May 1921 was one of the worst disasters to befall any https://en.wikipedia.org/ unit of British troops during the War of Independence. The wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris explosion was caused by a landmine fired by an electric battery h_War_of_Independence sixty yards up the hill. Immediately afterwards two civilians were Youghal - Explosion + seen running off in a westerly direction. Three of the military were - 7 British Military http://www.corkpastandp killed instantly and nineteen wounded, three others [actually four Band Soldiers 31/05/1921 resent.ie/history/timeline others] dying subsequently. Two band boys were amongst the dead Killed and one -1918-1923/1921.html and three seriously wounded. The explosion was seen by fishermen Civilian and Barry Keane and from their boats in the bay.’ Those killed were Corporal Charles https://theirishrevolution. Lewis T. Whichelow; Lance Corporal Reginald David McCall, ie/1921- Bandsman Francis Burke, Bandboy (aged 17) Frederick Evans, 268/#.XjbmZRfgpUM Bandboy (aged 15) George William Simmons, Private Frederick A. Washington, Bandboy (aged 14) Frederick William Hesterman, and civilian John (Jack) Kenure. Colonel John Peacocke, and ex-Army officer, was killed at his house near Innishannon. While cutting wood in his workshop at Skevanish Innishannon - House, two men entered the building and fired several shots, http://www.corkpastandp House Raid - One 31/05/1921 hitting him in the stomach. He ran back into the house but died resent.ie/history/timeline Fatality later from his wounds. The 32-year-old former Army officer was -1918-1923/1921.html believed to have been a member of the Anti Sinn Féin Society and was strongly suspected by the IRA of being a spy. Volunteer Patrick White (a carpenter) was shot dead by a British sentry (of the King’s Own Scotch Borderers Regiment) at Spike http://theirishrevolution.i Spike Island - One 31/05/1921 Island while in British custody in a bizarre incident. The shooting e/1921- Fatality occurred without warning or challenge. White was from Meelick, 277/#.XjboVRfgpUM Co. Clare. RIC Constable Joseph C. Holman, aged 21 and unmarried, was shot Barry Keane and dead on the evening of 1 June 1921 while he was out walking with Kilworth - Shooting http://theirishrevolution.i 01/06/1921 ‘a lady friend’ on a public road at Killally near the village of - One Fatality e/1921- Kilworth; he was stationed at Kilworth RIC barracks at the time of 278/#.Xjbo6hfgpUM his death. The killing occurred about a half-mile from the barracks. Barry Keane and Ballinacurra - One Kidnapped from Ballinacurra and shot. The Irish Times reports that http://theirishrevolution.i 05/06/1921 Fatality he was an ex-soldier and his name was Eugene Swanton e/1921- 282/#.XjbqSRfgpUM An ex-soldier and a railway parcel clerk, John Sullivan-Lynch came under suspicion as ‘an Englishman’ living in the same house on the Carrigrohane road as city Volunteer Patrick O’Sullivan. Two other city Volunteers ‘watched his movements and saw him entering the Cork City Orderly Room of the [Ballincollig] Military Barracks on several https://theirishrevolution. (Carigrohane) - 05/06/1921 occasions and [so] reported to Leo Murphy, who informed the ie/1921- Execution - One brigade. He was abducted by the IRA on 29 May 1921. Lynch was 266/#.XjblMBfgpUM Fatality held captive for a number of days, possibly at Cullinane’s (Old House) near Aherla in the Third Battalion area. He was handed back to H Company, First Battalion in the city district where he lived, and executed on 5 June 1921. Three young bandboys of the First Battalion of the Manchester https://en.wikipedia.org/ Regiment were spotted at Srelane Cross near Ovens; they were wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Kilcrea/Aherla - arrested by the IRA and taken three miles south-west to a house h_War_of_Independence Executions - Three 05/06/1921 one mile south of Aherla village, where they were tried, sentenced and Barry Keane and Fatalities to death, and executed on 5 June 1921. The three boys were http://theirishrevolution.i Matthew Carson (18); Charles Arthur Chapman (17) and Private e/1921- John Cooper (16) 279/#.XjbphRfgpUM The shooting in Little Mary St occurred at about 10:25 p.m. [on 5 Cork City (Little June 1921]. A group of people were standing at the street corner http://theirishrevolution.i Mary Street) - when two tenders containing Auxiliary police suddenly appeared. 05/06/1921 e/1921- Shooting - One The people at once scattered. Subsequently, some shots were 283/#.XjbqzBfgpUM Fatality fired, and a young man, Henry O’Rourke, a labourer, of Cornmarket, was killed. Macroom A party of Cameron Highlanders proceeding westwards from http://theirishrevolution.i (Carrigaphooca) - Macroom encountered Daniel (Cornelius) O’Riordan, who was 05/06/1921 e/1921- Shooting - One shot dead when he ignored several orders to halt near 284/#.XjbtZhfgpUM Fatality Carrigaphooka Bridge in a remote country district. Baile Bhuirne - During a military roundup near Ballyvourney on the Cork-Kerry http://theirishrevolution.i Shooting - One 05/06/1921 border British troops mistakenly killed the father of a local e/1921- Fatality Volunteer. His name was John (Seán) Jeremiah Kelleher. 285/#.XjdTNxfgpUM A shoemaker, David Fitzgibbon was abducted from his Liscarroll workplace by a party of armed and masked men on 6 June 1921 Liscarroll - http://theirishrevolution.i and later executed by the IRA. His body was found on 9 June near Execution - One 06/06/1921 e/1921- Killinane crossroads, about a half-mile outside Liscarroll. ‘On the Fatality 286/#.XjdT1hfgpUM body was pinned a card bearing the words, “Shot by the I.R.A. Spies beware. This body is not to be moved.”’ https://en.wikipedia.org/ Policy of House The British government called off the policy of house burnings as 06/06/1921 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Burnings called off official reprisals

h_War_of_Independence In mid-October 1927 workmen engaged in the draining of boggy land at Ahanesk [sic] near Midleton reportedly dug up the decomposed remains of a man who had been secretly buried. According to a report appearing in the Western Morning News of Midleton - 07/06/1921 https://theirishrevolution. 18 October 1927, ‘The blue clothes which he had worn were in Execution - One to ie/1921- tatters, but his boots, of strong pattern and tightly laced, were in Fatality 08/06/1921 288/#.XjgMFBfgpUM perfect condition. Rosary beads and a .45 revolver bullet case were also found.’ This report indicated that relatives had ‘identified the remains as those of John Joseph Walsh, a British army man shot by the I.R.A. in June 1920’. A farmer’s son, Volunteer Daniel Crowley was killed at his father’s door at Behagullane by British Auxiliaries (O Company) under Dunmanway - https://theirishrevolution. Major de Haviland then stationed at Dunmanway. Crowley was Shooting - One 07/06/1921 ie/1921- shot in the short laneway leading from the road to his house either Fatality 287/#.XjgLshfgpUM for ‘refusing to halt or rushing towards them affrightedly in the darkness’. Death of Volunteer Secton Commander Daniel (Sonny) Buckley; Barry Keane 8th June, 1921; Toames, near Macroom, County Cork. Buckley was Toames - Shooting https://theirishrevolution. 08/06/1921 shot by members of the British Army Flying column as he was - One Fatality ie/1921- proceeding to a well for water’ at about 7 p.m. on 8 June 1921. It 289/#.XjgMzRfgpUM was officially stated that he had been shot ‘for refusing to halt’ Private Henry Woods of the Royal Fusiliers accidentally shot Cork City - Blarney himself near the heart at the Blarney railway station and died of his Railway Station - https://theirishrevolution. wounds. He was one of two soldiers travelling on the engine of the Accidental 09/06/1921 ie/1921- train scheduled to reach Cork city at 9:20 a.m. The use of soldiers in Shooting - One 290/#.XjgNSxfgpUM this way was designed to prevent robbery of the mails and other Fatality kinds of IRA attacks. Civilian Thomas O’Keeffe and a young friend were resting in a field at Ballyvolane near Cork Military Barracks when two soldiers Cork City https://theirishrevolution. approached and told them to leave. ‘Shortly after they had done (Ballyvolane) - One 09/06/1921 ie/1921- so, a rifle was discharged and young O’Keeffe fell. A bullet struck Fatality 291/#.XjgN3RfgpUM him in the hand, entered his body near the hip, and passed right through.’ Medical assistance was unavailing and he quickly died. Barry Keane and Crookstown - One IRA member Matthew O’Donovan was shot dead at Béal na mBláth https://theirishrevolution. 10/06/1921 Fatality Crookstown ie/1921- 292/#.XjgOhhfgpUM

Barry Keane and Cork City https://theirishrevolution. (Blackpool) - One 13/06/1921 Civilian John Lucey shot and killed by a curfew patrol in Blackpool ie/1921- Fatality 293/#.XjgOwRfgpUM On June 15 P.5 the Cork Examiner reported that Michael Driscoll - One 13/06/1921 was found with a bullet wound in the thigh. He had bled to death. Barry Keane Fatality His body was found at Waterlands about a mile from Kinsale. Ms. Casey tried to protect her fiancé, who as a British soldier, was Fermoy - Shooting 13/06/1921 the real target and she got shot and killed. They were walking along Barry Keane - One Fatality the quayside at Fermoy RIC Auxiliary Cadet William A. H. Boyd was killed when on 16 June 1921 the IRA laid a successful ambush for four lorries of Auxiliaries http://theirishrevolution.i at Rathcoole Wood, located ‘on high ground south of the e/1921- Millstreet-Banteer road and about 2½ miles east of Millstreet. The 296/#.XjgPkhfgpUM and Rathcoole Ambush 16/06/1921 [Millstreet, Charleville, Kanturk, and Mallow] columns assembled in https://en.wikipedia.org/ - two fatalities the wood during the night, and early on the morning of June 16th, wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris 1921, six mines were laid in the road along the frontage of the h_War_of_Independence

wood. The mines were spaced at the estimated distances between and Barry Keane lorries travelling in convoy, and the whole position extended over a distance of about 1,200 yards.’ The combined strength of the four IRA columns was about 120 men, of whom 80 had rifles and the rest shotguns. RIC Auxiliary Cadet Frederick Edgar Shorter was also killed.

A dentist and a renowned baritone singer, civilian Leo Corby failed to halt at an IRA roadblock, was shot, and was disappeared. He had Castletownroche been travelling by motorcycle from his branch practice in Cashel http://theirishrevolution.i (ref Cork City) - 19/06/1921 back to Cork city on 19 June 1921 and was seen to have passed e/1921- Shooting - One through Mitchelstown. He was killed at Castleblagh townland in 297/#.XjgP3BfgpUM Fatality Ballyhooly parish and initially buried at night in Killathy Graveyard but was later re-interred in Ballyhooly Catholic Cemetery. An ex-sailor and Royal Navy Reserve pensioner, Daniel O’Callaghan was pulled from his house in Carrigtwohill ‘by two men who shot Carrigtwohill - https://theirishrevolution. him just outside’ at about 9 p.m. on 21 June 1921. He was taken to Execution - One 21/06/1921 ie/1921- Queenstown/Cobh Hospital but died there on the following day. Fatality 298a/#.XjgQhxfgpUM Unmarried and aged 36, he resided with his mother and had worked at a Haulbowline dockyard. Auxiliary George Duckham was shot by some members of the local company on the Macroom-Millstree road and his arms were taken. Carriganima - One 22/06/1921 His body was left on the roadside in the neighbourhood of Barry Keane Fatatity Carriganima in the hope that his colleagues would come to collect it. King George V addressed the first session of the parliament of First session of the , calling on "all Irishmen to pause, to stretch out https://en.wikipedia.org/ new parliament in 22/06/1921 the hand of forbearance and conciliation, to forgive and to forget, wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Northern Ireland and to join in making for the land they love a new era of peace, h_War_of_Independence contentment, and good will." Civilian Josephine Scannell was killed by a bullet which came Cork City (French's through her window and hit her in the chest on French’s Quay. Quay) - One 23/06/1921 Barry Keane Military denied responsibility but admitted to firing after a car Fatality which had thrown a grenade at nearby Tuckey Street police station.

“About 7 a.m. on Friday, June 24th Michael Dineen of Ivale, Kilcorney - Kilcorney, Millstreet, was accused of being an IRA officer and being Execution - One 24/06/1921 Barry Keane involved in the Rathcoole ambush a week before. He was taken out Fatality of his home, beaten and shot by Auxiliaries. The British Coalition Government's Cabinet decided to propose The British talks with the leaders of Sinn Féin. Coalition Liberals and Unionists Coalition agreed that an offer to negotiate would strengthen the https://en.wikipedia.org/ Government's 24/06/1921 Government's position if the revolutionaries refused. Austen wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Cabinet propose Chamberlain, the new leader of the Unionist Party, said that "the h_War_of_Independence talks with Sinn Fein King's Speech ought to be followed up as a last attempt at peace before we go to full martial law". Cork City Private Geroge Henry Caen was officially reported missing from http://theirishrevolution.i (Ballincollig) - Ballincollig Military Barracks on 24 June 1921. The authorities 24/06/1921 e/1921- Disappearance - initially believed that he was a deserter, but it is ‘now accepted’ 302/#.XjgS4RfgpUM One Fatality that he was taken in hand by the IRA and executed. Private Donald McKenzie of the 1st Manchester Regiment, based Kinsale - Accidental http://theirishrevolution.i at Charles Fort in Kinsale, died instantaneously of a bullet wound Shooting - One 25/06/1921 e/1921- through the heart that was self-inflicted by accident on 25 June Fatality 303/#.XjgTsRfgpUM 1921. Volunteer John Murphy was shot dead during a military roundup in the Ballinadee district on 26 June 1921. An employee of Robert http://theirishrevolution.i Bandon - Shooting Hales, Sr, of Knocknacurra, Murphy was apparently ‘crossing the 26/06/1921 e/1921- - One Fatality fields to his home when he was accosted’. Aged 22 and not 304/#.XjgUNBfgpUM involved in politics (‘quiet and inoffensive’), he was shot fatally in the neck. A war widow with two children, ‘Mrs Mary Francis Parnell (her maiden name) was accidentally shot by crown forces at about 8:15 Cork City - http://theirishrevolution.i p.m. on 26 June 1921 when she came into the line of fire as soldiers Shooting - One 26/06/1921 e/1921- and police were seeking to recapture a prisoner and North Main Fatality 305/#.XjgUshfgpUM Street resident, leading city Volunteer John (Seán) Twomey (aged 23), who had escaped. Constable Thomas Shanley and Sergeant Ryan were reportedly shot ‘from behind at point-blank range’ as they were leaving Sunday Mass and returning to the RIC barracks at Kildorrery on 26 June 1921. The shootings took place ‘about 40 or 50 yards from the church gates’; the gunmen—‘three or four undisguised civilians’— then melted into the crowd that was leaving Mass. Shanley was mortally wounded (while he lay ‘on the ground, four shots were Barry Keane and Kildorrery - One fired into his body’), whereas Sergeant Ryan ‘escaped with only a http://theirishrevolution.i 26/06/1921 Fatality slight wound on the left wrist’. A baby boy named Jeremiah e/1921- Donovan (aged about 3) and a man named William Carroll were 306/#.XjgVfhfgpUM hospitalised with bullet wounds received in this episode. Constable Shanley ‘had been stationed in the district for the past five years and was very popular with all classes of the community. A few minutes after the shooting, the services of a priest were obtained. The priest administered the last rites of the church amongst a crowd of about 200 residents who knelt around the body.’ Leo Murphy, Commandant of No. 1 Battalion, Mid-Cork Brigade of the IRA, was wanted by the British authorities in relation to the deaths of a soldier (Captain Thompson of the 1st Battalion, Waterfall - Manchester Regiment) and an RIC man (Sergeant Bloxham). On the http://www.corkpastandp Commandant Leo 27/06/1921 night of Monday 27 June, a party of soldiers travelled to Waterfall resent.ie/history/timeline Murphy shot dead for the purpose of arresting Commandant Murphy. They -1918-1923/1921.html surrounded the house in which Murphy was staying. They removed him from the house, at which point was alleged he discarded a gun, a Mauser automatic. One hundred yards from the house, he was shot dead. Forty-five arrests were made at the scene, at which point a large amount of material was captured which included two service rifles, two revolvers, an automatic weapon and significant store of ammunition.

Cork City (St Luke's Private Frederick Crowther was a member of South Staffordshire Cross) - One 27/06/1921 regiment kidnapped and shot dead St. Luke’s Cross P. 5 along with Barry Keane Fatality two other soldiers who were shot but not killed

Civilian William Horgan was employed as a fireman on the Great Southern and Western Railway. He was brought dead to the Cork City (Lavitt's Military Hospital in Cork. At the subsequent military inquiry held in http://theirishrevolution.i Quay) - One 28/06/1921 Victoria Barracks, Horgan’s father said that his son had been e/1921- Fatality arrested in their home (son and father lived together) at about 2:15 310/#.Xjg95xfgpUM a.m. in a raid on the night of 28 June 1921 and had been carried off by troops; his son was dead when he next saw him. Senior IRA Officer shot ‘while trying to escape’ Charlie Daly was arrested at Waterfall during a raid which resulted in the death of Barry Keane and Waterfall / Cork Leo Murphy by Captain Vining of the intelligence service and was http://theirishrevolution.i City (Douglas) - 28/06/1921 found dead the following morning in Douglas. Not to be confused e/1921- One Fatality with Charles Daly who was shot in the Glanmire tunnel by British 309/#.Xjg8hBfgpUM forces. His body was found in a field near Mount Vernon in the Cork suburb of Douglas. The dead bodies of John Sullivan and Patrick John Sheehan were found ‘on the roadside a short distance outside the town’ of http://theirishrevolution.i Charleville - Charleville on Wednesday, 29 June 1921. Sullivan had been e/1921- Shooting of Spies - 29/06/1921 ‘kidnapped about two weeks earlier by armed men near the town 312/#.Xjg_HxfgpUM and Two Fatalities while engaged [in] carting sand in connection with the building of Barry Keane ex-servicemen’s houses’. The IRA executed him and Sheehan as suspected spies. Civilian Timothy Murphy was returning home to 24 Blarney Street Cork City in Cork between 10 and 10:30 p.m. on 29 June 1921 when he was http://theirishrevolution.i (Blackpool) - One 29/06/1921 shot and killed by curfew troops because he had failed to hear or to e/1921-311/#.Xjg- Fatality heed their challenge. The shooting took place at Cattle Lane or gRfgpUM nearby Market Place in Blackpool. On Thursday evening, 30 June 1920, in the vengeful aftermath of Kilcorney - the IRA ambush at Rathcoole, a party of Auxiliaries ‘fired on two http://theirishrevolution.i Shooting - One 30/06/1921 youths who were cutting hay on Murphy’s farm at Rathcoole and e/1921- Fatality killed Volunteer Bernard Moynihan of the Kilcorney Company. The 314/#.Xjg_mhfgpUM wood at Rathcoole was burned too Frank (Francis) Sullivan was found dead early on Saturday http://theirishrevolution.i Rosscarbery - morning, 2 July 1921, ‘by the roadside at Rosscarbery with a bullet e/1921- Execution - One 01/07/1921 wound in the head’. For many years he had served as the steward 315/#.XjhAVBfgpUM and Fatality of Emily and Beatrice Whitley, daughters of a former Church of Barry Keane Ireland rector of Rosscarbery. Crown forces entered the seaside village of Ballycotton on the evening of 3 July 1921 and fired shots from one of their military lorries. Maurice Cusack, a British navy veteran, who was resting in Barry Keane and Ballycotton - a field near his house, was shot in the stomach and died shortly http://theirishrevolution.i Shooting - One 03/07/1921 afterward. According to a second and slightly different (British) e/1921- Fatality account, members of the Cameron Highlanders shot Cusack 316/#.XjhBIBfgpUM because they mistook him for a ‘Sinn Feiner’ who had been signaling to others and because he had refused to obey an order to halt. Born in 1901 and a resident of the Horse Shoe Inn in Creaton village Buttevant - in Northamptonshire in 1911, Private Percy Fry died at age 20 by http://theirishrevolution.i Ballyvonare 04/07/1921 accidental drowning at the Ballyvonare Military Camp on 4 July e/1921- Military Camp - 1921. His name was recorded later under 21 July 1921 in the 317/#.XjhBpBfgpUM One Fatality Buttevant Register of Deaths. He was buried in Coventry. On July 7th 1921 the RIC barracks at Ballinhassig was unsuccessfully attacked by local IRA volunteers. James Connor, who was stationed Ballinhassig - RIC in Ballinhassig, was on patrol at the time of the raid and as he Baracks - One 07/07/1921 attempted to return to the barracks he was shot dead by the IRA Barry Keane Fatality men who were withdrawing. Connor, a twenty four year old married man originally from Co. Tipperary, had been a labourer and soldier before joining the RIC. While allegedly trying to escape from crown forces, Volunteer Denis Joseph Spriggs was mortally wounded on 8 July 1921 at the top of Blarney Street in Cork city and soon died. As in numerous other instances, the commanding officer of these soldiers of the South Staffordshires (2nd Battalion), a regiment that had become notorious for its lethal treatment of IRA and civilian prisoners, laid https://en.wikipedia.org/ out a story that completely exonerated him and his men at the wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris subsequent military inquest. He noted that he had arrested Spriggs h_War_of_Independence at his home and placed him in a Crossley tender under escort. He + then related a tall tale about how Spriggs had brought death upon Cork City - http://www.corkpastandp himself: ‘When the Crossley had proceeded about 200 yards down Execution - One 08/07/1921 resent.ie/history/timeline Blarney Street, the tail board either fell down or was released by Fatality -1918-1923/1921.html Denis Spriggs. Spriggs then leaped out of the Crossley and started and to run up Blarney Street. The escort on the Crossley opened fire http://theirishrevolution.i and he fell. He was apparently dead when picked up. Before e/1921- putting Denis Spriggs in the Crossley, I personally warned him that 320/#.XjhIERfgpUM he would be shot if he attempted to escape.’ The inquest jury fully agreed that Spriggs himself ‘was to blame, in as much as he attempted to escape from military custody after having been warned of the consequences’. The expression ‘shot dead while trying to escape’ from British lips had long been understood by Irish republicans to mean execution without trial. In Mallow, an ex-soldier named William Alexander MacPherson http://www.corkpastandp was taken from his bed and shot dead. On July 9 1921 the Cork Mallow - Execution resent.ie/history/timeline 09/07/1921 Examiner reported on page 5 that Mc Phearson had been killed. He - One Fatality -1918-1923/1921.html was abducted from his home on Bridge Street Mallow and his body

and Barry Keane was found outside the town. He had been shot as a spy. While Richard Edward Larter and a fellow soldier were walking along a road near on a Sunday evening at about 7 o’clock Doneraile - http://theirishrevolution.i on 10 July 1921, they came under fire from members of the Shooting - One 10/07/1921 e/1921- Castletownroche Battalion of the Cork No. 2 Brigade. The two Fatality 321/#.XjhIshfgpUM soldiers were returning to the great Ballyvonare Military Camp in the Buttevant district after a Sunday outing to Doneraile. A labourer, Thomas McCarthy received fatal gunshot wounds from crown forces and died of shock and haemorrhage on 10 July 1921. Doneraile - Civilian McCarthy was the victim of a military search party that fired on http://theirishrevolution.i Shooting - One 10/07/1921 some twenty-five civilians near Kilconnor, 4 miles north-east of e/1921- Fatality Doneraile, at about 10 p.m. that night. The soldiers reputedly 322/#.XjhJXxfgpUM ordered the civilians to halt, but they allegedly failed to do so, and McCarthy was mortally wounded. http://www.corkpastandp resent.ie/history/timeline -1918-1923/1921.html Coachford - House In Macroom on 10 July a civilian man named John Foley was shot 10/07/1921 and Raid - One Fatality by the military at his house in Leemount, Coachford. http://theirishrevolution.i e/1921- 323/#.XjhJ2BfgpUM The night of July 10, 1921 was the eve of the truce and with a https://en.wikipedia.org/ cessation of hostilities only hours away, the military authorities at wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Cork City (Ellis' Cork city's Victoria Barrracks allowed leave to four soldiers to go on h_War_of_Independence Quarry) - Execution 10/07/1921 the town for the night. They entered a shop on the Bandon Road at and for verification of - Four Fatalities around 10.30pm. The soldiers were taken by surprise and the men date: were led into Ellis' Quarry near the Lough as darkness closed in. http://theirishrevolution.i They were blindfolded and executed. The four British soldiers were e/1921- Alfred Cannim, Albert Powell, Harold Daker, and Henry Morris. 328/#.XjhK7hfgpUM and based on the work of Barry Keane

The IRA mounted an ambush in Raglan Street in Belfast, killing two policemen. This sparked an outbreak of ferocious fighting between https://en.wikipedia.org/ Belfast's Bloody Catholics and Protestants in west Belfast in which 16 civilians (11 10/07/1921 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Sunday Catholics and 5 Protestants) lost their lives and 161 houses were h_War_of_Independence destroyed. Of the houses destroyed, 150 belonged to Catholics. Four more civilians died in the shooting over the next two days Barry Keane and Retired British Army Officer George Bernard O'Connor was shot Rochestown - One http://theirishrevolution.i 10/07/1921 dead at his home in Rochestown for giving information about a Fatality e/1921- local IRA hideout 324/#.XjhKNhfgpUM John H. N. Begley was kidnapped as a suspected informer by the Cork City (Douglas) http://theirishrevolution.i Cork city IRA on the very day of the Truce (five minutes before it - Execution - One 11/07/1921 e/1921- came into effect, according to one recent account) and executed Fatality 330/#.XjhLGhfgpUM soon after. William J. Nolan was the son of a retired RIC constable who had recently ‘presented himself as a candidate’ for the RIC. His police links were certainly known to the IRA. He appeared on the list of ‘missing persons’ published in the Irish Times of 22 August Cork City (ref http://theirishrevolution.i 1921.The Cork city IRA had earlier warned ‘“prospective recruits Knockraha) - 11/07/1921 e/1921- that they join the R.I.C. at their own peril. In his pension evidence Disappearance 331/#.XjhMkRfgpUM the IRA gaoler Edward Moloney, the so-called ‘governor’ of ‘Sing Sing’ prison at Knockraha, stated: ‘The day of the Truce there was three [prisoners] came [to Sing Sing] that day, and they were taken off again that night. It was closed up then.’ It is possible that Moloney was referring to William Nolan and John Begley, who had been abducted by the IRA earlier that day and were never seen again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris h_War_of_Independence At 3.00p.m., at a meeting in the Mansion House between + The Truce - End of Macaready, Colonel J. Brind, and Andy Cope (on the British side) http://www.corkpastandp War of 11/07/1921 and Robert Barton and Eamonn Duggan (on the Irish side) resent.ie/history/timeline Independence agreement is reached that a truce will start on the 11th. The Truce -1918-1923/1921.html came into effect at noon. and http://irishhistory1919- 1923chronology.ie/july_1 921.htm The long-serving Constable Alexander Clarke ‘was shot dead by four men when he was going to his lodgings in Townsend Street’ in http://theirishrevolution.i Skibbereen on the morning of the day that the Truce was declared Skibbereen: Last e/1921- (it came into operation at noon). He was an important British WOI Fatality in 11/07/1921 329/#.Xh0VUOvgpUM and intelligence operative with thirty-four years’ service in the RIC, Cork based on the work of ‘most of which he spent in this district [of Skibbereen]’. See CE, 12 Barry Keane July 1921. Shot at 08:30 a.m. on the morning of the Truce on Townsend Street, Skibbereen There is no record anywhere in Irish Newspapers about the killing of Patrick Cronin. However his parents lodged a claim with the Irish Grants Committee in relation to his death in 1927 and were 12/08/1921 Dunmanway - One compensated for his death. He had been a member of the British to Barry Keane Fatality Navy during the Great War. Andy Bielenberg writes ’Cronin, 14/08/1921 Dunmanway, was shot by ‘Republican forces’ on or about 12th or 14th August 1921; ‘shot being supposed giving information to auxiliary forces’. He had been in navy between 1915 and 1920. Nationalist De Valera received nationalist delegations from counties Down, https://en.wikipedia.org/ Delegations in 11/09/1921 Londonderry, Antrim and the city of Belfast who expressed anxiety wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Northern Ireland at partition. h_War_of_Independence Winston Churchill https://en.wikipedia.org/ Speaking in Dundee, Winston Churchill threatened war if the Dáil threatens war 24/09/1921 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris refused to accept the British offer. against Ireland h_War_of_Independence The remnants of K Company of the Auxiliaries who were not fired Dunmanway had been absorbed into O Company which replaced them in Shootings - No 06/10/1921 Dunmanway. After a number of aggressive actions by O Company Barry Keane Fatalities the IRA commandant, Peadar Kearney, decided to fire at them. The Auxiliaries returned with reinforcements and the IRA retreated. On 9th October 1921, a delegation from Dáil Éireann arrived in British-Irish London. The first meeting of the British-Irish conference was held https://en.wikipedia.org/ Conference First 11/10/1921 on October 11th. Over the next two months there would be seven wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Meeting plenary sessions, 24 sub-conferences and 9 meetings of special h_War_of_Independence committees. Tadhg Barry, a socialist, republican and trade union activist from Blarney Street in Cork, was shot at Ballykinlar Camp in County Down, where he had been imprisoned for several months. His body was returned to Cork for burial. Several politicians accompanied him on the journey, including Cork Lord Mayor Donal O’Callaghan, Liam De Róiste and J.J. Walsh. Shops and businesses http://www.corkpastandp closed, and flags were lowered to half-mast. Following a service in Death of Tadhg resent.ie/history/timeline 15/11/1921 the North cathedral, his remains were interred at the Republican Barry -1918-1923/1921.html Plot in Saint Finbarr’s Cemetery. There were processions in Dublin

and Barry Keane and Cork, and in Cork many thousands of people lined the streets along the route to the graveyard. A military inquiry held shortly after the death of Barry issued no findings, and the jury at the coroner’s inquest, which concluded on 14 December, could not agree a verdict. By this time the Treaty had been signed, and the other internees at Ballykinlar Camp had been released. Thirty people were 21/11/1921 https://en.wikipedia.org/ killed during to Thirty people were killed during violence in Belfast wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris violence in Belfast 25/11/1921 h_War_of_Independence

After Westminster decided to hand over responsibility for local government to Stormont, Tyrone County Council pledged its Tyrone County allegiance to Dáil Éireann. Eight smaller public bodies followed. https://en.wikipedia.org/ Council pledge 28/11/1921 That same day a bill was introduced in Stormont which allowed it wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris allegiance to Dail to dissolve any local authority. Offices of Tyrone County Council h_War_of_Independence Eireann were subsequently raided by the police and their records seized on 2 December 1921 The Treaty between Britain and Ireland was signed on 6 December 1921. Ireland would henceforth be known as the Irish Free State. Northern Ireland was given the option to opt-out of the Free State https://en.wikipedia.org/ and remain part of Britain. Michael Collins and members of the wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris The Anglo-Irish Irish delegation received a great welcome on their return to Dublin. h_War_of_Independence Treaty was signed 06/12/1921 The initial response in Cork was one of relief and joy. In the days + in London that followed internees were released from camps around the http://www.corkpastandp country. After much debate, the Anglo-Irish Treaty was ratified in resent.ie/history/timeline the Dáil on 7 January 1922. However it had served to polarise the -1918-1923/1921.html Sinn Féin party, which split into Pro-Treaty and Anti-Treaty factions, setting the scene for the . https://en.wikipedia.org/ Release of IRA 09/12/1921 Irish Prisoners begin to be released wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Prisoners h_War_of_Independence IRB Supreme https://en.wikipedia.org/ At a meeting of the Supreme Council of the IRB, 11 supported the Council supports 10/12/1921 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Treaty and 4 opposed it. Treaty h_War_of_Independence

Fermanagh County https://en.wikipedia.org/ Council pledged Fermanagh County Council pledged allegiance to Dáil Éireann. After 15/12/1921 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris allegiance to Dáil the meeting the RIC took over the council chamber. h_War_of_Independence Éireann Anglo-Irish Treaty was passed in the https://en.wikipedia.org/ Anglo-Irish Treaty is passed in the British House of Commons (401 British Houses of 16/12/1921 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris support, 58 oppose) and House of Lords (166 support, 47 oppose). Commons and h_War_of_Independence Lords The treaty was The Anglo-Irish Treaty was approved by Dáil Éireann (64 support, https://en.wikipedia.org/ approved by Dáil 07/01/1922 57 oppose). In Ireland, 328 statutory public bodies endorsed the wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Éireann Treaty; 5 declared against. h_War_of_Independence Arthur Griffith was https://en.wikipedia.org/ elected president 10/01/1922 Arthur Griffith was elected president of Dáil Éireann wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris of Dáil Éireann h_War_of_Independence Southern Sixty Pro-Treaty TDs and four Unionist MPs met as the "Southern https://en.wikipedia.org/ Parliament' - 14/01/1922 Parliament" and set up a Provisional Government. Michael Collins wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Michael Collins was elected Chairman. h_War_of_Independence Elected Chairman Dublin Castle was https://en.wikipedia.org/ surrendered to the Dublin Castle was surrendered to the Provisional Government 16/01/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Provisional under the terms of the Treaty. h_War_of_Independence Government https://en.wikipedia.org/ Irish 31/01/1922 The first Regiment of the Irish National Army was set up in Dublin wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris h_War_of_Independence Barry Keane and RIC District Inspector Michael Kenny (or Keany) was killed and his https://www.historyirelan Clonakilty - One 11/02/1922 16-year-old son Edward was wounded on 11 February 1922 in d.com/letters- Fatality Clonakilty. extra/dunmanway- massacre/ An Anti-Treaty rally was held in Cork on Sunday 19 February. The attendees included Eamon de Valera, , Constance Markiewicz and Sean MacSwiney T.D.. Two large platforms were erected for the speakers on Grand Parade. Several thousand people filled the streets. Companies of Volunteers lined South Mall, Grand Parade and Washington Street. Lord Mayor Donal O’Callaghan spoke first, followed by Eamon de Valera. De Valera’s speech was short, during which he said that if the Treaty was http://www.corkpastandp Cork City Anti- signed under duress, then the men who went over broke their faith 19/02/1922 resent.ie/history/timeline Treaty Rally with the . If they signed it without duress, they were -1918-1923/1922.html traitors to their cause. He said he believed it was signed under duress. He said the forthcoming election was an attempt to get the Irish people to recognise partition, to get them to go into the British Empire and accept a British monarch. After de Valera had finished his speech Cathal Brugha, Mary MacSwiney, David Kent, and Countess Markievicz addressed the crowd. A ballot of staff of the Cork General Post Office resulted in an almost unanimous vote in favour of strike action. Mitchelstown - http://www.corkpastandp The Police Barracks at Mitchelstown was handed over by British Barracks handed 19/02/1922 resent.ie/history/timeline forces to the . over -1918-1923/1922.html Castletownbere - http://www.corkpastandp The Police Barracks at Castletownbere was handed over by British Barracks handed 19/02/1922 resent.ie/history/timeline forces to the Irish Republican Army. over -1918-1923/1922.html Michael Collins secretly authorised the formation of a specially- Michael Collins paid unit of 70 IRA volunteers (Parkinson says 72, including 12 https://en.wikipedia.org/ authorised the set 22/02/1922 officers), known as the Belfast City Guard, to protect districts from wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris up of the Belfast loyalist attacks. It operated until August 1922, the same month that h_War_of_Independence City Guard Collins was killed Stand-off occurs in Limerick between 700 pro-treaty IRA men under Michael Brennan and 800 Anti-Treaty IRA fighters under Ernie O'Malley over who will take over the military barracks, which were being abandoned by British troops. After negotiations between the Limerick Stand-Off https://en.wikipedia.org/ Mayor of Limerick, Stephen M. O'Mara, Anti-Treaty leader Liam between Pro and Mar-22 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Lynch and Pro-Treaty leader , fighting is averted. It Anti Treaty h_War_of_Independence is decided that troops from outside Limerick will return to their own areas and that Limerick IRA men would divide the two military garrisons there between pro- and Anti-Treaty units. Limerick Corporation will oversee the maintenance of the RIC barracks. Cork City http://irishhistory1919- (Washington Two RIC men were attacked in Hanover St., Cork and one is killed 09/03/1922 1923chronology.ie/march Street) - One (Constable Dudley O'Sullivan). _1922.htm Fatality Michael Collins and prominent supporters took part in a Pro-Treaty Rally in Cork City. 50,000 people gathered to listen to speeches on Grand Parade, some from as far away as Sullivan’s Quay. During his speech, Michael Collins said that de Valera and his followers were Cork City Pro- suggesting that martyrdom and destruction were better than http://www.corkpastandp Treaty Rally with materialism and slavery. He said there was no slavery under the 12/03/1922 resent.ie/history/timeline Michael Collins Treaty. He said the Anti-Treaty side were inciting mutiny for their -1918-1923/1922.html Connection own ends, and were jeopardising Ireland’s independence and progress. Towards the end of the meeting revolver shots were fired into the air. Liam De Róiste then said “We were not afraid of the Black-and-Tans, and we are not afraid of them.” He then asked to crowd to support the Treaty in the forthcoming general election. Cork City (Barrack Ex-RIC man (Sgt William Gloster) was shot dead in Barrack's St., Street) - One 25/03/1922 Barry Keane Cork Fatality IRA leaders meet in an "Army Convention" and vote to repudiate https://en.wikipedia.org/ IRA Army the Treaty. They also reject the authority of the Dáil to accept the 26/03/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Convention Treaty and set up their own 16 man "Army Executive", led by Liam h_War_of_Independence Mellows and Rory O'Connor IRA volunteers under Seán O'Hegarty seized the British ship Upnor Ballycotton - off the coast of Ballycotton, County Cork, taking a large cache of https://en.wikipedia.org/ Weapons seized 29/03/1922 weapon. They take between 400 and 1,500 rifles, 60 machine guns, wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris from the British 700 handguns and over 25,000 rounds of ammunition, which they h_War_of_Independence Ship the Upnor then distribute to Anti-Treaty IRA units. USA, New York an Cork City: A suspected informer (Patrick 'Cruxy' Connors) is shot dead in https://en.wikipedia.org/ Suspected Manhattan, New York by men of the Cork city IRA. (Even though, 13/04/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Informer shot by word went back to Cork that he had been killed, it is possible that h_War_of_Independence IRA Volunteers he was survived the attack.) from Cork Dublin - taken over The Anti-Treaty IRA under Rory O'Connor took over the Four Courts 13/04/1922 https://en.wikipedia.org/ by Anti-Treaty building in Dublin. The following day, O'Connor, Mellows, and to wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Forces followed by others lead 200 Anti-Treaty IRA men in taking over several other 14/04/1922 h_War_of_Independence many further public buildings around Dublin. public buildings. There is 'intense firing' for two hours, starting at midnight, by Anti- Treaty fighters on the Pro-Treaty troops in Dublin stationed at the Anti-Treaty attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/ Provisional Government headquarters in Merrion Square, the Bank on Pro-Treaty 20/04/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris of Ireland on College Green, the telephone exchange and City Hall, troops in Dublin h_War_of_Independence Dublin. Three people are wounded. The Four Courts Anti-Treaty garrison denies knowledge of the attack https://en.wikipedia.org/ General Strike A general strike took place, called by the (and 24/04/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris against Civil War supported by 75,000 workers) against the prospect of civil war h_War_of_Independence

On 26th April 1922, at 02:30 a.m., Captain Herbert Woods fired a Ovens - Shooting - single shot from his Bulldog 45 revolver at IRA Commandant 26/04/1922 Barry Keane Two Fatalities Michael O'Neill on the stairs of Ballygroman House, Ovens. Herbert Woods was subsequently killed. After the fatal shooting of a local anti-Treaty IRA officer, Michael O'Neill, in a dispute over a car which the IRA wanted to commandeer, elements of the local IRA shot 14 local Protestant men in and around County Cork, killing all but one, in revenge. Between 26 and 29 April 1922, there were thirteen violent killings in West Cork which later became known as “The Dunmanway Massacre”. After the killing of O'Neill, later that night three civilian https://en.wikipedia.org/ residents of Dunmanway were shot dead when they answered wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris their front doors. Two others were seriously wounded. The h_War_of_Independence shootings continued in Dunmanway the following night, with + Dunmanway - 26/04/1922 several wounded and five civilians killed, varying in age from 18 to http://www.corkpastandp Massacre - to 60. The majority of victims were Protestant. The Dáil cabinet resent.ie/history/timeline Thirteen Fatalities 29/04/1922 expressed its horror at the events. More killings occurred on 29 -1918-1923/1921.html April. As a result of these murders, many Protestant families moved and Barry Keane and from the West Cork area, fleeing to Dublin or England in the fear https://en.wikipedia.org/ they would be targeted. Brigade Commandant Tom Hales pledged wiki/Dunmanway_killings protection for all citizens of the area, irrespective of creed, and ordered IRA members to lay down their arms or face severe penalties. The names of the civilians killed were Francis Fitzmaurice; David Gray (a chemist), James Buttimer (a retired draper); Robert Howe, John Chinnery, Alexander McKinley (aged 16), John Buttimer, Jim Greenfield, Robert Nagle (aged 16), and John Bradfield. Two Hornibrook colleagues (Thomas and Samuel) who were with Captain Herbert Woods (in the shooting of Michael O'Neill) were also killed.

On the morning of the 26 April 1922 three British Army Intelligence Officers - Ronald Hendy; George Dove and Kenneth Henderson - and their driver, Private J. Brooks, left Ballincollig Barracks Macroom - Four 26/04/1922 ostensibly on a fishing expedition. The local IRA did not believe Barry Keane Fatalities they were fishing, in that they had no fishing equipment, and they were shot some time between 26 and 29 April 1922 and buried at Clondrohid. Cork City - One Seán Bullman was accidentally killed and was buried in the 27/04/1922 Barry Keane Fatality Republican Plot at St. Finbarrs Cemetery on 30 April 1922. Pact signed by both Michael Collins and Eamon Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera sign a Pact, in which the pro- https://en.wikipedia.org/ de Valera that the 03/05/1922 and Anti-Treaty wings of Sinn Féin would jointly contest the wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris election would be upcoming first election of the new state h_War_of_Independence contested by Pro and Anti-Treaty sides British Forces handed Victoria Barracks (later renamed Collins Barracks) to the Irish Republican Army. British Troops left the Cobh Admiralty barracks at 7pm and embarked the S.S. Classic on Custom House House; Youghal Quay. Before they left they lowered the Union Jack and took it with http://www.corkpastandp Military Barracks them. Irish Troops remained at the rear gate until the British 18/05/1922 resent.ie/history/timeline and Cork City Military had handed over the keys of the main gate to I.R.A Captain -1918-1923/1922.html Victoria Barracks MacNeill. At 8pm a force of 200 Irish Soldiers of the 1st Cork Hand-over Brigade entered the Barracks by the front gate and formally took possession of the Barracks. Youghal Military Barracks and Admiralty House in Cobh were also handed over to Irish Forces on this day. Truce in the Dáil to https://en.wikipedia.org/ Pro and Anti-Treaty leaders announce a "truce" in the Dáil to try to prevent the Civil 20/05/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris prevent civil war War h_War_of_Independence The Southern Star on 27th May 1922 reports that Timothy O'Leary Ballinspittle - ex-RIC was shot outside Ballinaspittle when returning from Kinsale Shooting - One 20/05/1922 with his aunt Mrs. Fielding by 'two boys' who stopped their pony Barry Keane Fatality and trap and took him away. She never saw him alive again. The killing had taken place on May 20th. Andrew Bushe reports in Irish Independent July 1 2007 An October 1924 memo from Chief Supt P Fahy in Cork said he had received Knockraha - One "reliable information" that Constable Michael Williams (retired) 01/06/1922 Barry Keane Fatality had been taken to Corry's farm where a kangaroo court presided over by Sean Hegarty and involving Mrs McCurtain as a witness sentenced him to death. He was thereafter killed. Royal https://en.wikipedia.org/ Constabulary takes The new Royal Ulster Constabulary took over policing in Northern 01/06/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris over policing in Ireland h_War_of_Independence Northern Ireland Cork City Frederick Grant (aged 17) died from wounds received after a burst (Blackrock) - 17/06/1922 of revolver fire in Blackrock, Cork the previous Saturday night P 5 Barry Keane Shooting - One Col 7 Fatality Pro-Treaty Sinn Féin party wins the election, despite the Collins/De Valera Pact stating the election was not to be held on the issue of Pro-Treaty Sinn https://en.wikipedia.org/ the Treaty but to form a Coalition Government, with 239,193 votes Fein win the Irish 18/06/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris to 133,864 for Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin. A further 247,226 people General Election h_War_of_Independence voted for other parties, all of whom supported the Treaty (except Unionist Party) https://en.wikipedia.org/ London - British British General Sir Henry Wilson, who had been a military adviser wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris General, Sir Henry to the Northern Ireland government, was shot dead at his home in 22/06/1922 h_War_of_Independence Wilson, London by IRA volunteers Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan, to and assassinated at his purportedly in reprisal for attacks against Catholics in Ulster; two 10/08/1922 https://en.wikipedia.org/ home - Two further policemen and a passerby were also wounded. The two IRA wiki/Sir_Henry_Wilson,_1 Fatalities volunteers were captured and hanged on 10 August 1922. st_Baronet Michael Collins gives final https://en.wikipedia.org/ Collins gives a final ultimatum to the Four Courts garrison to ultimatum to the 27/06/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris surrender before they are attacked.

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Killavullen - Retired Sergeant John Tehan was found shot through the head in a 28/06/1922 Barry Keane Execution - Fatality field at Killavullen.

Fighting broke out in Dublin between pro- and anti-Treaty units of the IRA. Michael Collins borrows two British 18-pounder field guns to bombard the Four Courts. This marked the start of the Irish Civil The Irish Civil War War, which effectively ended serious violence in Northern Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/ begins at the Four 28/06/1922 as it distracted attention from the continued British presence wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Courts there. On June 29th British give Collins two more 18 pounders to h_Civil_War increase the bombardment of the Four Courts. Free State troops storm the eastern buildings of the complex, losing 3 dead and 14 wounded. Anti-Treaty commander in the Four Courts, Paddy O'Brien is wounded by shrapnel. Ernie O'Malley assumes command. In the morning there is a truce to remove the wounded. Shortly afterwards, a massive explosion destroys the western wing of the Four Courts and the Irish Public Records Office along with it. It is Dublin: Four Courts thought to have been caused when fires from the artillery https://en.wikipedia.org/ and Irish Public 30/06/1922 bombardment set off munitions stored there, although Free State wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Records Office troops claim that the building was mined. 20 Free State soldiers are h_Civil_War Explosion maimed in the blast. O'Malley surrenders the Four Courts when sends word that he cannot break through to help them. Members of the IRA Army Executive Liam Mellows, Rory O'Connor, Joe McKelvey and Dick Barret are among the prisoners, but O'Malley himself escapes. Buttevant - Lieutenant William Spillane, on active service with Cork No. 1 Shooting - One 01/07/1922 Barry Keane Brigade, was accidentally shot dead by one of his comrades. Fatality Anti-Treaty fighters Ernie O'Malley and 250 Anti-Treaty fighters take Enniscorthy in seize Enniscorthy, County after some fighting. They take the Free State 04/07/1922 https://en.wikipedia.org/ Co Wexford, garrison there captive but release them on condition that they do to wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris involving Seán not fight again against Republicans. Seán Moylan and 230 08/07/1922 h_Civil_War Moylan from North republican troops occupy New Ross. They abandon Enniscorthy and Cork New Ross on 8 July. Barry Keane and In Loving Memory Of Sec. Com. Patrick McCarthy Morahin 5th Cork Skibbereen - One https://www.findagrave.c 04/07/1922 Brigade IRA Who Died Of Wounds Received In Action at Skibbereen Fatality om/memorial/172088249 July 4 1922 Aged 22 Yrs R.I.P. /patrick-mccarthy The remainder of Oscar Traynor's Anti-Treaty force in O'Connell street either slips away or surrenders. Republican leader Cathal Brugha is killed outside the Hamman hotel. Anti-Treaty Dublin https://en.wikipedia.org/ End of fighting in forces re-group in Blessington. The fighting In Dublin has cost sixty- 05/07/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Dublin five combatants killed, of whom 16 are government troops and 49 h_Civil_War are Anti-Treaty IRA men, and 280 wounded of whom 122 are Free State soldiers and 158 are Republicans. The civilian casualties are thought to comprise over 250 killed and injured. Pro-Treaty forces take , with minimal resistance. One Anti- Treaty IRA captain, Donnellan is killed, five of his men are wounded https://en.wikipedia.org/ Pro-Treaty forces and 12 captured before Free State troops secure the area. The 07/07/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris seize Galway remaining republican fighters set fire to a number of public h_Civil_War buildings before fleeing the city. The National Army takes two killed and more wounded in the operation. Fighting breaks out in Limerick between Pro- and Anti-Treaty factions. National Army troops open fire on the Republicans holding the Ordnance Barracks. Anti-Treaty forces capture 47 Free State troops in east County Limerick. On 15 July National Army troops assault Republican-held Strand Barracks and King John's Castle in Limerick, with armoured cars, grenades, machine gun and Fighting breaks out mortar fire, but fail to take them. Six Free State troops are killed in Limerick 11/07/1922 and five wounded. One Republican is killed and five wounded. On https://en.wikipedia.org/ between Pro- to 17 July Free State general Eoin O'Duffy arrives in Limerick with wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Treaty and Anti- 20/07/1922 1,500 National Army troops, four armoured cars and one 18- h_Civil_War Treaty fighters pounder field gun. • 20 July – Fall of Limerick. Free State forces capture the Ordnance Barracks and Castle Barracks in Limerick. The Republicans burn the remaining two barracks they are holding and retreat southwards. Fighting in Limerick has cost the lives of six Free State soldiers and 12 civilians, with a further 87 wounded. The press reports about thirty Anti-Treaty IRA men killed but a recent study puts their fatalities at just five. The Southern Star reports that Patrick O’Mahony’s body was Crookstown - One brought to the North Cathedral on the previous Tuesday. It had 17/07/1922 Barry Keane Fatality since been established that this was Patrick O’Mahony from Crookstown. He was killed in action on 17 July Free State general John T. Prout arrives in Waterford with 700 troops, one artillery piece and four armoured cars to take the city. Prout sets up his gun on Mount Misery (Mercy) and bombards Republican held positions along the River Suir in the city, forcing them to eventually evacuate the military barracks and the post office. The barracks are burnt down by Irregulars before they abandoned the city. Four deaths occurred during the fighting, one 18/07/1922 of which was a girl of ten, who was shot in the stomach. • 20 July – https://en.wikipedia.org/ Free State attack to Fall of Waterford Captain Ned O'Brien leads 100 National Army wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris on Waterford 20/07/1922 troops in boats in an attack on the quays in Waterford, taking 12 h_Civil_War prisoners. Free State troops then cross the river Suir into the city. The Republicans abandon Ballybricken Prison on Friday afternoon, 21 July escaping to Mt. Congreve in Kilmeadan, the Comeraghs and eventually, Dungarvan where many men of the Flying Column give up the struggle. Two Free State soldiers have been killed in the fighting in Waterford and 19 wounded. At least one Anti-Treaty fighter is fatally wounded. Five civilians are also killed death notice states William O'Sullivan died at the Mercy Hospital, Mercy hospital from injuries received as the result of an accident. 18/07/1922 Barry Keane Cork - Fatality He is buried in the Republican Plot. St. Finbarr’s Cemetery, Cork and was Anti-Treaty. Precise date of death uncertain. Sir James Craig, Prime Minister of Sir James Craig, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland issues a https://en.wikipedia.org/ Northern Ireland 20/07/1922 statement endorsing Michael Collins' efforts to bring "peace and wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris endorses Michael order to the South and West h_Civil_War Collins Castlebar District Castlebar District Council, county Mayo issues a resolution https://en.wikipedia.org/ Council condemns 20/07/1922 condemning the Free State Provisional government for wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Free State inaugurating the war in Ireland h_Civil_War 23/07/1922 July – Free State troops under General W.R.E. Murphy take Bruff https://en.wikipedia.org/ The taking of Bruff to and Kilmallock in County Limerick. 24 July – Republican fighters wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris in Limerick 24/07/1922 under Liam Deasy re-take Bruff and take 76 Free State prisoners h_Civil_War Death notice states that William Spillane was killed on active Dublin (ref Cork 30/07/1922 service on 30 June presumably in Dublin. Irish Examiner p. 1 Buried Barry Keane City) - Fatality in the Republican Plot, St. Finbarr’s Cemetery, Cork.

Ballinspitle/Garrets James O' Donovan aged 23 was shot dead on the Garretstown road town - Shooting - 30/07/1922 south of the village. He was an ex-Irish Guard and a tram conductor Barry Keane One Fatality in Cork.

Free State troops take Bruree, County Limerick. The Dublin Guard, Free State groups https://en.wikipedia.org/ supported by artillery, attacks the village for five hours before the take over Bruree, 30/07/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Anti-Treaty IRA retreats. At least 13 Free State soldiers and nine Co. Limerick h_Civil_War Anti-Treaty fighters are killed in the action and more are wounded. Ant--Treaty activist, Harry 31/07/1922 https://en.wikipedia.org/ Anti-Treaty activist Harry Boland is shot by Free State troops as he Boland was shot by to wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris is being arrested in Skerries, near Dublin. He dies on 2 August. Free State troops 02/08/1922 h_Civil_War in Dublin Anti-Treaty IRA Anti-Treaty IRA in Raheen, County Limerick ambushes Free State officers ambushed troops – two Colonels killed; 2nd Lt Michael Joe Costello and https://en.wikipedia.org/ Free State troops 31/07/1922 another officer turn ambush which results in capture of 30 of wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris in Raheen, Co. ambushers. Costello is promoted by Michael Collins to Colonel- h_Civil_War Limerick - Fatalities Commandant at the age of 18. Free State authorities https://en.wikipedia.org/ In Mayo, the Free State Authorities establish a volunteer Civilian establish a 01/08/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Guard. The initiative is later expanded to other counties volunteer Civil h_Civil_War Guard in Mayo Naval Landing of Free State troops in . Paddy Daly and Free State troops the Dublin Guard, as well as others, a total of about 800, land at https://en.wikipedia.org/ invade many areas 02/08/1922 Fenit. They fight their way to Tralee at a cost of 9 killed and 35 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris in Co. Kerry wounded. Two Republican fighters are killed in the fighting and h_Civil_War more are wounded. The remainder retreat. Two-thousand Free https://en.wikipedia.org/ State Troops take About 2,000 Free State troops under Eoin O'Duffy take Kilmallock, 05/08/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris over Killmallock, Co County Limerick. The Republicans retreat towards Charleville. h_Civil_War Limerick

Killdorrey - National Army troops assault and take Kildorrey, County Cork from https://en.wikipedia.org/ National Army 07/08/1922 its anti-Treaty garrison. Casualties are reported as one dead and 2 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris

troops take over wounded on either side. 27 Republicans are taken prisoner h_Civil_War

Between 24 July and 10 August 1922 Pro-Treaty forces The Battle For Cork implemented a series of sea landings in a strategic offensive to take (Passage West, the South and West of Ireland from the anti-Treaty Republicans https://en.wikipedia.org/ Rochestown, who held Munster and . The largest of these took place wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Douglas, Cork City on 8 August, and were overseen by Emmet Dalton. The Irish 08/08/1922 h_War_of_Independence and ref Union Hall, Independent of 10 August reported on successful landings at to + Cobh, Passage West, Union Hall and Youghal. Irregular forces were routed 11/08/1922 http://www.corkpastandp Castlemartyr, at Union Hall. They had tried to destroy the pier, but the boat resent.ie/history/timeline Midleton, Fermoy carrying Free State troops landed successfully at high tide. At -1918-1923/1922.html and Youghal) - Passage West, 50 or more Irregulars were captured. The remaining Many Fatalities anti-Treaty forces fought to impede the advance of National troops to Cork. After a three day intensive battle for Douglas, on the outskirts of Cork city, the National Army once again was able to push the Republican Forces back because of their armoured cars and Artillery. As the National Army drew closer to the city of Cork the Republican Forces pulled out in small sections while others kept the pressure on. The offices of “The Cork Examiner” and “The Cork Constitution” were burnt out by retreating Irregulars, as well as a number of barracks and the Technical school. The Admiralty House in Cobh was also burned. On 10 August, Free State troops entered Cork unopposed, the Republican forces having left their positions. Crowds of civilians greeted them. Irregulars evacuated Midleton and Castlemartyr and set fire to Castlemartyr Barracks. IRA Commander Liam Lynch abandoned Fermoy. The Cork No. 1 Brigade officers held a meeting later in August to decide to continue the war. A number of people on both sides lost their lives with some accounts indicating 30 people in total. The 15 National Army and anti-Treatyforces men definitely known to have died were 12 from the National Army (James Gavigan, Henry Quinn, Patrick Maguire, James Madden, Patrick Perry, Gerald McKenna, Frederick McKenna, William Nevin, Christopher O'Toole, Michael Collins (first cousin of Commander-in-chief), Flood, and one more unnamed) and 3 from the Atni-Treaty IRA (Ian McaKenzie- Kennedy; James Maloney and Jeremiah Hourican (Hourigan).

Bandon/Kinsale - Denis Coffey, a Free State Intelligence Officer, was shot by 'the Shooting - One 08/08/1922 Irregulars' after they retreated from Bandon towards Kinsale, Barry Keane Fatality because they believed he intended to switch sides. Fermoy - The IRA's Liam Lynch, the Anti-Treaty IRA's Chief of Staff, abandons Fermoy, Anti-Treaty Chief of the last major Republican held town. Lynch issues orders that https://en.wikipedia.org/ Staff, Liam Lynch, 11/08/1922 Republican forces are to abandon the policy of holding towns, and wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris withdraws the orders them to form flying columns and pursue guerrilla warfare. h_Civil_War policy of holding End of the war's conventional phase. towns A Free State Naval landing takes place at Kenmare. Commandant Free State troops Tom "Scarteen" O'Connor (formerly local IRA commander) lands https://en.wikipedia.org/ take over Kenmare, 11/08/1922 unopposed with 200 pro-treaty men and occupies Rathmore and wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Rathmore and Millstreet. Kerry operations in August have cost the National Army h_Civil_War Millstreet a total of 11 killed and 114 wounded. As National Army soldiers moved to take Fermoy, they were Rathcormac - ambushed at Rathcormac. Following a fierce battle the anti-Treaty Shooting - One 11/08/1922 retreated to the rear of Mr. Curtin's house and continued firing. A Barry Keane Fatality stray bullet came through the window and hit him in the shoulder before hitting Mary Ann Curtin in the head. She died. Free State https://en.wikipedia.org/ president, Arthur Free State President Arthur Griffith dies of a stroke. He is replaced 12/08/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Griffith, dies of a by W. T. Cosgrave.

h_Civil_War stroke Dublin Castle, the centre of British Rule in Ireland for nearly 700 Dublin Castle years was formally handed over on August 17, 1922 when https://www.garda.ie/en/ 17/08/1922 handed over Commissioner led his new police force through the About-Us/Our-History/ castle gates. The only report of Christie Olden’s death is a motion of condolence from the Cork Handball Association on his untimely death. As he is Cork City - One 18/08/1922 buried in the Republican Plot it is not unreasonable to assume he Barry Keane Fatality was shot during the battle for Cork earlier in the month but the report does not provide this information. Kildorrery - One Patrick Breen Jr. (19), a National Army soldier from Drogheda, was 18/08/1922 Barry Keane Fatality killed in action at Kildorrery. Rosscarbery - Jeremiah McDonald [National Army] was shot in the head and died Shooting - One 18/08/1922 Barry Keane instantly. Fatality Liscarroll - Seven A party of seven Free State troops is ambushed in a car heading https://en.wikipedia.org/ Free State troops from Liscarrol to Kanturk, Cork. One National Army officer [Edward wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris 20/08/1922 are ambushed - Cregan] is killed, two others wounded and the remainder h_Civil_War and Barry One Fatality surrendered with their arms Keane Private Patrick Corcoran died on 20 August 1922 in the South Cork City (South Infirmary. It is believed he died from wounds received near Infirmary Hospital) Macroom on 10 August. As Macroom was occupied on 17 August - One Fatality - Ref 20/08/1922 Barry Keane without a shot being fired it is more probable that Corcoran was Macroom and another victim of the Rochestown fighting. Prior to joining the Rochestown National Army, Corcoran had served with the British Army. William Levingstone Cooke was shot dead when a group of men called to his house demanding subscriptions for a football club. Mr Levingstone Cooke lived at Rock Lodge, Old Blackrock Road, Cork’. Cork City (Old Collections for such organisations were euphemisms used by those Blackrock Road) - 21/08/1922 Barry Keane collecting for the IRA and Sinn Fein, those who refused were often One Fatality not given the chance to refuse a second time. He was a member of the Grand Jury on 14th July 1921 according to the Cork Constitution. Cork City Patrick Burns was asleep in Ballincollig Battacks on the night it was John Borgonovo and Barry (Ballincolig) - One 21/08/1922 burned by the anti-Treaty IRA. Keane Fatality National Army Commander-in-Chief Michael Collins is killed in an ambush by Anti-Treaty Republicans at Béal na Bláth, near his family home in County Cork, he is the only fatality of the 45 minute fire fight. Richard Mulcahy takes over as National Army commander in chief. Collins had been pursuing talks with Anti-Treaty leaders Dan Breen, Liam Deasy and others in order to try to stop the fighting. https://en.wikipedia.org/ His killing greatly embittered the war and probably prolonged it by wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris several months. Michael Collins was driving to Bandon with other Beal na Blath - h_War_of_Independence Army Headquarters staff when the party was attacked by a large Michael Collins is + 22/08/1922 group of Irregulars. An hour’s fierce fighting ensued. Though the killed by Anti- http://www.corkpastandp anti-Treaty forces were beaten back, it was not before General Treaty republicans resent.ie/history/timeline Collins was shot in the head. One other member of the travelling -1918-1923/1922.html party was injured during the incident. His body was removed – and Barry Keane under fire – to an armoured car and brought to Shanakiel Hospital. A message from the Government declared that Michael Collins “had been slain, to our unutterable loss – but he cannot die. He will live in the rule of the people, which he gave his great best to assert, and which his colleagues undertake as a solemn charge to maintain” . The Criminal Investigation Department (CID), a police intelligence unit, is formed to 'be distinct from existing police forces with separate headquarters under direct control of the Minister for https://en.wikipedia.org/ Home Affairs.' It was formed from members of the National Army wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Criminal and the Irish Republican Police and is based at Oriel House, h_War_of_Independence Investigation Westland Row, Dublin. They consist initially of over 100 heavily + 22/08/1922 Department armed men and later are 350 strong. Also thirty members of the http://www.corkpastandp formed in Dublin Squad (a former IRA assassination unit) are established as the resent.ie/history/timeline Protective Corps, also based at Oriel House, to afford protection to -1918-1923/1922.html members of the Provisional Government. The Oriel House unit is and Barry Keane effectively a counter-insurgency corps and is accused of the assassination of many Republicans during the conflict. Two Fianna Fianna Éireann members Seán Cole and Alf Colley and Anti-Treaty Eireann members IRA member Bernard Daly, are abducted and killed in Dublin by the https://en.wikipedia.org/ and an Anti-Treaty 26/08/1922 CID, police unit based in Oriel House, allegedly in revenge for wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris IRA member are Michael Collins killing, although possibly in retaliation for the death h_Civil_War killed in Dublin of a CID man the previous day.

A National Army officer from Belfast [Cyril Lee] was killed in an Clondrohid - One ambush at Clondrohid seven miles from Macroom on Sunday the 27/08/1922 Barry Keane Fatality 27th of August 1922. He died several hours after receiving a bullet wound to the head. Lieutenant Lee, a native of Belfast While a young soldier of the detachment of National troops at Mallow - One present doing duty in Mallow was examining his rifle in a room at Fatality 28/08/1922 the Police Barracks on Sunday, the weapon accidentally went off, a Barry Keane (Accidental) young man named Jeremiah O'Callaghan from the town who happened to be in the room at the time being mortally wounded. Mayo - A group of Irregulars attack a Five civilians are killed in Westport Mayo after Irregulars open fire https://en.wikipedia.org/ group of civilians in 28/08/1922 on a crowd leaving Mass. A mass was being held for the repose of wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Westport - Five the soul of Michael Collins. National troops returned fire. h_Civil_War Fatalities On Tuesday the 5th of September 1922 a soldier [Denis McCarthy] Cork City (Barrack of the National Army was shot dead, in Barrack Street, Cork, he had Street) - One 29/08/1922 Barry Keane only left his home where he was visiting his wife and child when Fatality the attack took place. Cork City (Barrack On his way to the Barracks, Denis McCarthy (National Army) was Street) - One 29/08/1922 Barry Keane shot and killed. Fatality Captain Hugh Thornton of the Dublin Brigade was shot dead in an Clonakilty - ambush as he was being driven through the town of Clonakilty. Shooting - One 29/08/1922 Barry Keane Thornton was a close associate of Michael Collins and had trained Fatality many of the Volunteers in West Cork. On the 30th of August forces of the National Army engage Anti- treaty forces in Bantry County Cork. Four soldiers of the Anti-treaty Army are killed in various engagements around Bantry. On the night of 30 August 1922, Anti-Treaty forces under the command of Bantry - Anti- Brigadier Commandant Gibbs Ross, attacked Bantry Post Office. https://en.wikipedia.org/ Treaty IRA troops During the engagement Ross was shot in the head, and died shortly wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris 30/08/1922 invade - Five after. h_Civil_War and Barry

Fatalities Captain from Bridge Street Skibbereen, Lieutenant Keane Donal McCarthy from Carrigbawn Drinagh, Lieutenant Michael Crowley from Reenogreena Glandore were also killed as well as John Hourihane (National Army) Patrick McCarthy was shot in Skibbereen in August date uncertain A Patrol was proceeding from Cork to Fermoy when at Watergrass Hill - Watergrasshill about seven miles from Cork a mine exploded under 30/08/1922 Barry Keane Fatality the Crossley Tender. The Crossley Tender was badly damaged. The dead soldier was named Albert Redvers Cottle [National Army] Cork City (Bandon James Murray failed to hear a challenge to stop at a National Army Road) - One 31/08/1922 check-point on the Bandon Road in Cork city. A member of the Barry Keane Fatality army he was shot by his own side and killed. The Anti-Treaty IRA https://en.wikipedia.org/ attacks the The Anti-Treaty IRA mounts gun and grenade attacks on National 31/08/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris National army in Army soldiers at Stephen's Green, Dublin. h_Civil_War Dublin On Friday the 1st of September 1922 while recovering the wreckage of a National Army lorry destroyed in an earlier ambush two soldiers of the National Army were killed when ambushed on Watergrass Hill - their return journey in Watergrasshill. The ambushers beat a hasty Ambush - Two 01/09/1922 Barry Keane retreat but during the exchange of fire two of the National Army Fatalities troops were mortally wounded. The two dead men were Driver Richard (Dick) Kearns, aged 26 and married with two children and Nicholas Ward. In the early hours of 2 September 1922, a group of 300 Irregulars launched an attack on military positions in Macroom. They were heavily armed, utilising machine guns and armoured cars. After http://www.corkpastandp Macroom - Anti- over eight hours of fighting they were defeated by National Army resent.ie/history/timeline Treaty Attack - Two 02/09/1922 forces. Two soldiers were killed [Francis Neary and John O'Leary] -1918-1923/1922.html Fatalities The Irregulars sustained higher losses, and they were observed and Barry Keane removing their dead by horse transport. Attack on Macroom left two Free State troops dead and two wounded. https://en.wikipedia.org/ Republicans attack National Army troops while they are drilling in wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Cork City: National front of the City Club in Cork city. They drive up in a lorry and open h_War_of_Independence 02/09/1922 Army Soliders machine-gun fire on the Free State troops, killing two and injuring + to Attacked: Four six. Those killed were Michael Francis Behan and Thomas Conway. http://www.corkpastandp 14/09/1922 Fatalities It was reported 2 weeks later that James McCann and James Yates resent.ie/history/timeline had also died. -1918-1923/1922.html and Barry Keane

Crookstown - One Jeremiah Coleman was shot somewhere between Crookstown and 03/09/1922 Barry Keane Fatality Cork. Eamon De Valera A secret meeting takes place between Richard Mulcahy and Éamon https://en.wikipedia.org/ holds a secret de Valera, political leader of the Republicans, to try to arrange a 05/09/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris meeting to try and truce. However, according to de Valera, they, "couldn't find a basis" h_Civil_War call a truce/ of agreement. IRA fighters IRA fighters ambush National Army troops in Glenacone County ambush National https://en.wikipedia.org/ Limerick, but are worsted in the ensuing action, One IRA officer, D Army troops in 05/09/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Finich of Cork 2 Brigade is killed and 12 prisoners are taken. Two Limerick - One Cork h_Civil_War National Army soldiers are wounded. Fatality Republican activist Timothy Kenefick is abducted from his home in Macroom - Cork city by Free State troops. He is shot dead and his body is https://en.wikipedia.org/ Kidnapping and dumped near Macroom. ‘Inquest held by ‘Coroner J.J. Horgan’ at wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Execution - One 08/09/1922 ‘Mr. Gilligans, Coachford’, Monday September 11th 1922. h_Civil_War and Barry Fatality (ref Cork

Concludes that Kenefick was murdered by a party of Free State Keane City) Troops. Cork City Patrick Murphy was shot after refusing to halt at an anti-Treaty (Leemount Bridge) 09/09/1922 Barry Keane road block - One Fatality Ant-Treaty troops attack Free State Anti-Treaty ambush of Free State troops near Rathmore, County https://en.wikipedia.org/ Troops near Kerry. Seven National Army soldiers are killed. The Republicans 10/09/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Rathmore, Co. retire after an artillery piece is brought up to fire seven shells at h_Civil_War Kerry - Seven them. Fatalities Donoughmore - 14/09/1922 At an ambush outside Donoughmore Denis Creedon and John Ambush - Two to Barry Keane O’Brien [both National Army] were killed. Fatalities 17/09/1922 On Thursday the 14th of September 1922 a young merchant sailor Edward Williams aged 18 from 15 Burley Street Liverpool who was serving on the Cork Steam Packet Company’s S.S. Kenmare as a Cork City (Bridge wireless watcher was shot dead on the corner of Bridge Street Street) - One 14/09/1922 Barry Keane Cork. Williams had left the ship with another young man, John Fatality William Cave of 8 Howe Street Liverpool, on Thursday night, as they were talking to some girls at the corner of Bridge Street a man emerged from a Public House and fired on Williams with a revolver. Eight or nine members of a National Army patrol were killed at Carrigapooka outside Macroom after attempting to remove a mine from the roadway. Among those killed was Colonel Commandant Barry Keane and Carrigapooka - 16/09/1922 Thomas Keogh of the Dublin Brigade. It was said that a bomb had http://www.corkpastandp Explosion - Nine to been placed under the mine which exploded when the troops resent.ie/history/timeline Fatalities 17/09/1922 attempted to lift it. On of the National Army was unnamed and the -1918-1923/1922.html seven others were Tom Manning; Dan O'Brien, William Murphy, Ralph Conway, Patrick O'Rourke, John Riordan and James Buckley [anti-Treaty]. Coachford - https://en.wikipedia.org/ A national Army soldier [Bernard (Parick) Gray (Grey)] is Shooting - One wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris 18/09/1922 accidentally killed cleaning his rifle. He was a member of the Fatality h_Civil_War and Barry Scottish Brigade of the National Army. (accidental) Keane Aherla (ref Crookstown) - David O'Sullivan, National Army, was shot and killed at Aherla after 19/09/1922 Barry Keane Shooting - One returning from the lifting of landmines at Crookstown Fatality Kinsale - Shooting - Robert O'Sulivan, National Army, was accidentally shot at Kinsale One Fatality 21/09/1922 Barry Keane Barracks (accidental) Cork City Mrs. Francis Haines [Frances Haynes] (mother in law of Anthony (Washington Hawkesworth) was killed in a machine gun attack on Free State Street) - One 22/09/1922 troops stationed in Moore's Hotel. The firing was on the other side Barry Keane Fatality of the river and Mrs Haines [Haynes] who lived next door was (accidental) found dead after the attack. Nothing at this stage would be known of the death of Timothy Glengarriff - Collins, because it was never reported in the newspapers and there Kidnapping and 22/09/1922 is no evidence that an inquest was held, except for a single Barry Keane Execution - One question asked in the Dáil. It is understood from same that Timothy Fatality Collins was kidnapped and murdered on 22nd September 1922. - Anti Treaty IRA Jeremiah Long died in a motorcycle accident at Fatality 24/09/1922 Barry Keane Myrtleville, buried in the Republican Plot. (accidental) IRA prisoners in Cork Gaol were engaged in a stand-off. At 11:50 Cork City (Cork a.m. sentries were ordered to fire to frighten them back into their Gaol) - Shooting - 24/09/1922 Barry Keane cells. Some including, Patrick Mangan, still refused and one of the One Fatality sentries fired again, hitting and killing Mangan. About 500 Anti-Treaty IRA men attack Killorglin, County Kerry, led by Seán Hyde. However, they fail to dislodge a pro-treaty garrison Five-hundred Anti- of 60 men from Clare who hold the barracks in the town. British https://en.wikipedia.org/ Treaty IRA men 27/09/1922 Intelligence reports that 23 Republicans are killed in the action and wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris invade Killorglin. 30 wounded. Anti-Treaty soldier David Robinson admits to 2 killed, h_Civil_War Co. Kerry 15 wounded and 14 captured. The Republicans disperse after 24 hours of fighting, when Free State troops arrive from Tralee. Innishannon - Edward Searls, a national army soldier, was hit by an explosive Shooting - One 27/09/1922 bullet in the head and died. The incident took place on the Bandon Barry Keane Fatality side of Innishannon.

The captured The Republican leader Tom Barry, who was captured in the Dublin https://en.wikipedia.org/ Republican leader, 28/09/1922 fighting, escapes from an internment camp in Gormanston, County wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Tom Barry, escapes Dublin. h_Civil_War from a camp in Gormanston, Co. Dublin Irregular Sean O’Donoghue, Acting C/O of the 1st Cork Brigade, was killed during an ambush on National Army troops two miles http://www.corkpastandp Cork City - Death of outside Blackpool, near Cork city. He had recently escaped from resent.ie/history/timeline Commandant Seán 28/09/1922 Cork Gaol. The National troops, consisting of one officer and ten -1918-1923/1922.html O' Donoghue soldiers, had been travelling by car for some hours, inspecting and Barry Keane houses in the area. They were attacked by a group of twelve Irregulars carrying rifles, guns and ammunition. The National Army, under Major-General Dalton, broke the Inchigeelagh - http://www.corkpastandp Irregulars’ filed organisation and occupied Inchigeelagh. A number Occupation by 28/09/1922 resent.ie/history/timeline of Irregulars were captured, leaving Ballyvourney the sole National Army -1918-1923/1922.html remaining stronghold for Anti-Treaty forces in County Cork. Inchigeelagh (ref During a sweep from Inchegeela to Ballingeary Stephen Donovan Dunmanway) - 29/09/1922 [National Army] from Dunmanway was killed - the victim of a Barry Keane Shooting - One sniper's bullet. Fatality The Free State offers an amnesty https://en.wikipedia.org/ The Free State offers an amnesty to Anti-Treaty fighters who to Anti-Treaty 03/10/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris surrender their arms and recognise the government. fighters who h_Civil_War surrender Bantry (ref Mercy 03/10/1922 Miss Helena Barry died in the Mercy Hospital on 10/11/1922 as a Hospital, Cork City) to result of a bullet wound received on the 3rd October in her home Barry Keane - Shooting - One 10/10/1922 near Bantry. Fatality On Wednesday the 4th of October 1922 two young men were taken from their homes and not heard of until their bodies were Whitechurch - found tied together in a turnip field on Saturday the 7th of Executions - Two 04/10/1922 October. The two men were Patrick Burns of Knockbeg, Barry Keane Fatalities Whitechurch, County Cork., and Daniel O’Hanlon Ballinamoora White’s Cross, County Cork. The two men were well known supporters of the treaty During a National Army offensive in Kealkill against anti-Treaty Kealkill - Shooting - 04/10/1922 forces, a farmer named Jeremiah Holland was shot through the Barry Keane One Fatality head and died instantly. On the 5th of October 1922 three Anti Treaty Troops were shot dead near the village of Upton County Cork. The men died when Upton - Ambush - 05/10/1922 they attempted to cut off a small National Army out-post but were Barry Keane Three Fatalities surprised by a larger force of national Army Troops. The three men were Patrick Pearse; Daniel Sullivan and Michael Hayes. White's Cross (ref Francis Power, killed in battle White’s Cross. His name is recorded Donoughmore) - 06/10/1922 Barry Keane on the No. 1 Brigade monument in Donoughmore Cemetery. One Fatality Timoleague - During an IRA operation to demolish a bridge in Timoleague some Fatality 06/10/1922 Barry Keane masonry fell on Daniel O'Donovan and he was killed (accidental) The Roman The Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland issue a formal statement, Catholic Bishops of supporting the Free State as the lawful and democratic https://en.wikipedia.org/ Ireland announce 10/10/1922 government, denouncing the Anti-Treaty campaign as an unlawful wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris support for the rebellion and denying their fighters access to Holy Communion or h_Civil_War Free State Confession. On the 11th of October 1922 a soldier of the national Army was Dunmanway - killed in an ambush when marching between Dunmanway and

Ambush- One 11/10/1922 Barry Keane Clonakilty. Two men were badly wounded in the attack and Patrick Fatality Byrne lost his live. - Anti-Treaty, Richard Noonan (18) collapsed and died of a heart 11/10/1922 Barry Keane Fatality attack in Cork prison Bandon - Shooting National Army Joseph (James) Claffey was shot dead accidentally (accidental) - One 11/10/1922 Barry Keane in Bandon by a colleague. He was a member of the Dublin Brigade. Fatality Cork City - On 21st October the Southern Star P.7 ex-RIC man Patrick Clancey Shooting - One 13/10/1922 of 10, Cemetery Row Old Youghal Road was shot at 11 am after Barry Keane Fatality withdrawing £30 from the Bank of Ireland. The Public Safety Bill comes into effect. The bill called for people to The Public Safety https://en.wikipedia.org/ hand over their weapons in a brief amnesty, after which time the Bill comes into 15/10/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris possession of arms could be punishable by execution. This led to effect h_Civil_War the summary executions of captured Anti-Treaty fighters. Directives are sent to the press by Free State director of The Free State communications, Piaras Béaslaí to the effect that; Free State troops director of are to be referred to as the "National Army", the "", or communications just "troops". The Anti-Treaty side are to be called "Irregulars" and https://en.wikipedia.org/ orders changes to are not to be referred to as "Republicans", "IRA", "forces", or 15/10/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris the names of the "troops", nor are the ranks of their officers allowed to be given. No h_Civil_War various groups in letters about the treatment of Anti-Treaty prisoners are to be conflict and there published. The words "attacked, commandeered and arrested" as actions used to describe their actions are to be replaced by, "fired at, seized and kidnapped". Bantry - Shooting - National Army Jeremiah Driscoll died following the accidental One Fatality 16/10/1922 discharge of Private Hurley's rifle in 'The Rink', Bantry on 16 Barry Keane (accidental) October 1922. At about 10 o’clock on the night of the 16th of October 1922 armed men called at the house of John Patrick Walsh of Gerald Griffin Cork City - One Street Cork and shot him dead. Southern Star reports that on 16/10/1922 Barry Keane Fatality October 21st page 8 that John (Sean) was most likely shot because he took the Free State side in the Civil War despite requests to switch sides During an ambush at Lombardstown near Mallow Anti Treaty IRA Lombardstown member Callaghan was shot by machine gunfire directed at the Ambush (ref 17/10/1922 hedge from which the Anti Treaty IRA were firing. A roadside Barry Keane Killavullen) - One memorial in Killavullen identifies him as James O’Callaghan who Fatality was killed on 16th October A grenade or bomb was thrown at a Free State Crossley tender but bounced off into the street at the Lee Boot Factory before it Cork City (Mercy exploded seriously injuring two young girls. Ellen (Lily) Gallagher Hospital) - One 18/10/1922 from Western Road sustained a serious head wound from shrapnel Barry Keane Fatality (Youth) and despite regaining consciousness the following morning passed away a few days later at the Mercy Hospital. She was 13 approximately. Rosscarbery - National Army Daniel Sullivan was shot while removing a roadblock Shooting - One 20/10/1922 Barry Keane at Curragh Hill, three miles to the west of Clonakilty Fatality Millstreet (ref Midleton) - National Army Thomas O’Mahony was killed in an ambush in 22/10/1922 Barry Keane Shooting - One Millstreet. He is buried in the Republican Plot in Midleton. Fatality On Sunday the 22nd of October 1922 Anti-Treaty Volunteer Daniel O’Halloran aged 34 was killed in an ambush on Free State troops at Carrigaloe County Cork. A Lieutenant of the National Army gave evidence at the inquest that he had left Queenstown at 9.30 to visit Carrigaloe Ambush troops at Belvally and on his return journey a bomb was thrown at 22/10/1922 Barry Keane - One Fatality the car he was travelling in, one of the men in the car was wounded. On reaching Queenstown the Lieutenant got some reinforcements and returned to the scene of the ambush. When they returned fire was opened on them which they returned. During this exchange of fire O’Halloran was killed. Cork City (Washington 22/10/1922 David Nolan died on 26/10/1922 from an injury received on 22 Street) - One to October when a military lorry collided with a trap in which he and Barry Keane Fatality 26/10/1922 another were occupants in Washington Street. (accidental) Charleville - One National Army James Marum was shot and killed in Charleville. He 23/10/1922 Barry Keane Fatality was from Bray, . Enactment of the The enactment of the Constitution of the Irish Free State on 25th Constitution of the 25/10/1922 DCHG Document October 1922, which included equal voting rights for women Irish Free State Éamon de Valera, at the request of the IRA Army Executive, sets up Eamon De Valera a "Republican Cabinet", formed from Anti-Treaty TDs to: "be https://en.wikipedia.org/ sets up a temporarily the Supreme Executive of the Republic and the State, 25/10/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris "Republican until such time as the elected Parliament of the Republic can freely h_Civil_War Cabinet" assemble, or the people being rid of external aggression are at liberty to decide freely how they are to be governed". At an action near Castletownroche, Cork, three IRA fighters are https://en.wikipedia.org/ Castletownroche - 25/10/1922 reported by the press to have been killed and nine wounded, wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Three Fatalities having returned to the village for a funeral. [NAMES UNKNOWN] h_Civil_War

Anti-Treaty William Cox (23) was shot at during a fire- Ladysbridge - fight when National Troops arrived in the village to raid a house. On Attack - One 25/10/1922 Barry Keane their approach they were attacked by rifle and machine gun fire. Fatality Cox died that night in Midleton Hospital. Shots were fired on A Free state military truck on Patrick's Bridge Cork City - Fatality 28/10/1922 and Daniel Griffin 29 of Roche's Buildings was struck by one of the Barry Keane bullets and killed. He was a civilian. https://en.wikipedia.org/ Mallow - Shooting - A Free State soldier, Daniel Dennehy of Cork is shot dead by wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris 30/10/1922 One Fatality machine gun fire while guarding a railway near Mallow, Co Cork. h_Civil_War and Barry Keane (date) Cork City (Female While National Army Jeremiah O'Sullivan was on guard at Cork's Prison) - Shooting - 01/11/1922 Female Prison he was shot and killed by the accidental discharge of Barry Keane One Fatality another soldier's rifle. (accidental) The newspapers provided a graphic account of an intense anti- Treaty attack on the twin villages of Ballineen/Enniskeane, during 04/11/1922 Ballineen - Five which give casualties occurred: Anti-Treaty IRA John Howell, Anti- to Barry Keane Fatalities Treaty Timothy (Tadhg) O'Leary and National Army Thomas 07/11/1922 Gallagher and National Army Michael Woods (Wolfe). National Army Andrew Horgan died later on 7 November 1922. Coachford - The National Army arrests Republican at checkpoint and executes https://en.wikipedia.org/ Shooting - One 05/11/1922 him on the side of the road, in Peake near Coachford, Co wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Fatality Cork.{NAME UNKNOWN] h_Civil_War Glanmire - https://en.wikipedia.org/ Republicans attack Republicans attack the National Army barracks at Glanmire, Cork. 06/11/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris a National Army One civilian is wounded in the crossfire. h_Civil_War barracks Southern Star Reports on 11 November P.4 that William Aherne Cork City aged about 30 years of Model Cottages was shot by the IRA as a () - spy. The Irish Times report stated ‘The body of a man named 07/11/1922 Barry Keane Execution - One William Aherne, aged 30, was found at Bishopstown, near Cork, at Fatality about 9.30 o'clock on Tuesday evening. On the body was a label inscribed, “Shot as spy.—I.R.A.” Cork City James Murphy was shot during sniper fire at Victoria barracks. He (Blackpool) - One 10/11/1922 Barry Keane was a passer-by. Fatality The son (15) of the captain of the ship Isabella from Gloucester was Youghal - Shooting walking past the police barracks in Youghal when they were 11/11/1922 Barry Keane - Two Fatalities challenged to halt by a sentry. He fired and both men were killed: Samuel Jones and James Lack. Castletownroche At Castletownroche troops went for a ‘joyride’ with an army truck (ref Cobh) - One 11/11/1922 and National Army Frank Creegan from Cobh was killed when it Barry Keane Fatality went out of control. 11/11/1922 Bantry - One Volunteer William Cronin succumbed to injuries received in an to Barry Keane Fatality ambush near Durrus Road, Bantry, on Saturday 11 November. 14/11/1922 Cork City Perhaps one of the most tragic events of this period was the death (Riverstown / of a little girl (aged 3 years and 3 months) called Eileen O’Driscoll in Mercy Hospital) - 13/11/1922 Riverstown who threw a cartridge that she had found on a fire. She Barry Keane One Fatality was hit in the head when the cartridge exploded and she died a few (accidental, aged 3) days later in the Mercy Hospital Barry Keane and During an ambush at Newtown Shandrum Mollie Egan (aged 24) Newtownshandru https://en.wikipedia.org/ 13/11/1922 was driving a trap from which a man was shooting at troops. When m - One Fatality wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris they retirned fire she was killed. h_Civil_War

Rathduff: One John Cronin was working for the National Army's Labour Corps on Fatality 14/11/1922 the railway line at Rathduff Station when he was shot and killed Barry Keane (accidental) accidentally.

The funeral of Private (National Army) William Francis Woulahan, Bandon - One 16/11/1922 killed in action in Bandon, took place with full military honours at Barry Keane Fatality Rathmies Church.

Glengarriff - Anti-Treaty IRA Patrick Duggan was shot at Glengarriffe as National Shooting - One 17/11/1922 Barry Keane troops fought their way down the peninsula. Fatality Cork City Madge Daly was walking down Mulgrave Road when a shot was (Mulgrave Road) - fired at Private Daniel Desmond of the Free State Army. The bullet 20/11/1922 Barry Keane Shooting - Two passed through her head and struck him also in the head killing Fatalities them both National soldier Henry Stringer from Mallow was killed in an Kiilcorney - Fatality 23/11/1922 Barry Keane ambush at Kilcorney Thomas McCann, Sergeant Major National Army and Private John Cork City Walsh were killed when they were blown to pieces by a mine at (Ballyvolane) - Two 24/11/1922 Barry Keane Ballyvolane, County Cork. The date of the incident in which he was Fatalities killed is recorded as the 23rd of November 1922. Former Treaty negotiator Erskine Childers is executed by the Free Former Treaty State, having been captured in possession of a pistol-which, https://en.wikipedia.org/ negotiator, Erskine 24/11/1922 ironically, had been given to Childers by Michael Collins (Irish wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Childers is killed by leader). There are attacks that night on Portobello and Wellington h_Civil_War the Free State attacks in Dublin but inflicting no casualties. On Saturday evening, two civilians were wounded, one very Cork City (Sunday's 27/11/1922 seriously. One of those wounded, civilian Daniel O'Meara (Mara) Barry Keane Well) - One Fatality died two later.

Crossbarry/Upton - At an ambush at Crossbarry two national troops were killed. One 27/11/1922 Barry Keane Two Fatalities was William Williamson and one was unknown. Anti-Treaty IRA commander, Liam In reprisal for the executions, Liam Lynch, Anti-Treaty IRA Lynch, orders his Commander, issues a general order to his forces to kill members of https://en.wikipedia.org/ soldiers to kill 30/11/1922 the Dáil (T.D.s) and senators who had voted for wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris members of the Powers legislation. He also orders the killing of hostile judges and h_Civil_War Dáil, judges and newspaper editors. newspaper editors According to Colonel Murphy of the Cork Command [National Army], 'On November 30th something approaching a mutiny broke Drimoleague - One out in the ranks of his Column'. Murphy noted that it was not clear 30/11/1922 Barry Keane Fatality how Lieutenant [Daniel] O'Leary was killed, but that a shot was fired 'in the endeavour to quell the trouble' and he 'fell, mortally wounded'. Riverstown - House Anti-Treaty IRA William Buckley was shot at Riverstown by 30/11/1922 Barry Keane Raid - One Fatality National troops A party of 60 Republican fighters ambushes a Free State convoy of https://en.wikipedia.org/ Dunmanway - two lorries on Drimoleague Road, near Dunmanway in West Cork. wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Ambush- One 04/12/1922 One National Army sergeant is killed [NAME UNKNOWN]. The h_Civil_War and Barry Fatality National Army troops call for air support and an aeroplane bombs

Keane and machine guns the Anti-Treaty fighters before they disperse. An attack on Ballymackeera by Anti Treaty forces to rescue one of their men lead by an armoured car (Sliabh na mBan) resulted in the Ballymackeera - 06/12/1922 death of Sgt. Thomas Nolan and the wounding of fifteen other Attack - Three to National Troops. Private William McNeice died subsequently in the Barry Keane Fatalities 07/12/1922 Mercy Hospital in Cork on 7 December. ‘Memoirs of an old warrior’ by James Moynihan (Mercier 2014) states that a civilian [Cornelius O'Leary] was also shot and killed.. National Army forces raided Gortnalicka late in the evening of the day of this attack. They opened fire from a distance on Daniel Ballyvourney - (Jeremiah) Casey who was alone in the district and was armed with Shooting - One 06/12/1922 Barry Keane a rifle. Casey was wounded and, when the officer in charge of the Fatality Free State forces reached the wounded man he (the officer) shot him through the heart. https://en.wikipedia.org/ On December 6th 1922, the Irish Free State, provisionally set up wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris under the Anglo-Irish Treaty in January, was formally established by h_War_of_Independence; an Act of the British Parliament. Eleven days later the last 6,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/ The Irish Free State British troops in Dublin were shipped back to Britain. President 06/12/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris is established Cosgrave, in his address to a crowd which included about 100 h_Civil_War + Deputies, wished the Northern counties well. He appealed to those http://www.corkpastandp opposed to the Treaty to open their eyes and realise that freedom resent.ie/history/timeline was in their hands. -1918-1923/1922.html Cork City National Army Daniel Hurley was guarding the mail lorry from (Glanmire) - Attack 06/12/1922 Fermoy to Cork. At Glanmire the lorry was attacked and Hurley was Barry Keane - One Fatality shot. [Since November 17, the Free State had executed eight Republican prisoners under emergency legislation known as the Public Safety Pro-Treaty TD, Bill. On December 7, TDs Sean Hales of Cork and Padraig O Maile of Sean Hales, is killed Mayo emerged from their lunch at a hotel on Ormonde Quay. Both by Anti-Treaty 07/12/1922 Barry Keane had been active in Sinn Fein and the IRA in the struggle against the soldiers near British, but had supported the Treaty. As they were getting into the House car that would drive them to parliament, two gunmen opened fire on them, killing Hales and severely wounding O Maile. Cork City (Patrick's A bomb was thrown at a car on Patrick’s Street outside Thompson’s Street) - One 08/12/1922 and a large number of civilians were injured including Ms. Barry Keane Fatality Katherine Fehily. (accidental) Four Anti-Treaty Anti-Treaty leaders captured in the Four Courts in July, Rory https://en.wikipedia.org/ leaders are killed O'Connor, Liam Mellows, Dick Barrett (from Ballineen, County wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris by the Free State in 08/12/1922 Cork] and Joe McKelvey are executed by the Free State in revenge h_Civil_War and Barry Dublin including for the killing of Seán Hales. This is an illegal act, as the four were

Keane Cork's Dick Barrett captured before the Dáil passed its emergency legislation. Two Anti-Treaty fighters are killed in an action at Kealkil, Cork. To https://en.wikipedia.org/ Kealkil - Two Anti- push the Anti Treaty out of the hills north of Bantry the National wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Treaty fighters are 08/12/1922 troops moved up along the ‘Bantry line’ and were attacked at the h_Civil_War and Barry killed village of Kealkill. George Dease and John Dwyer were killed on the

Keane Anti treaty side. Cork City - One 09/12/1922 James Malone was shot by armed men no reason given Barry Keane Fatality 13/12/1922 John Travers from Cloyne, a member of the National Arm,y was Cloyne - One to shot the previous Monday and died on Wednesday. ‘He told a Barry Keane Fatality 15/12/1922 priest he forgave the man who shot him’.

Cork City (North National Army Thomas Mooney died from wounds which he had 13/12/1922 Barry Keane Mall) - One Fatality received when a National Troop lorry was fired on in Cork City.

Passage West - At Passage West James Roche was killed by National Troops when 15/12/1922 Barry Keane One Fatality he failed to stop Fermoy - One Volunteer Laurence Galvin was killed while cleaning his revolver in Fatality 15/12/1922 Barry Keane the New Barracks, Fermoy. (accidental) Barry Keane and Eric Wolfe was shot in an ambush outside Kinsale while driving Kinsale - Shooting - https://en.wikipedia.org/ 16/12/1922 home. The Cork Examiner states that he was taken down from the One Fatality wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris pony and trap and riddled with bullets. h_Civil_War Macroom (ref National Army Jeremiah Desmond (35) was on active service Mercy Hospital 16/12/1922 around Macroom on 16 December when he was shot in the knee. Cork City) - to Barry Keane He was taken to the Mercy Hospital in Cork City and although was Shooting - One 22/12/1922 amputated below the knee, he died on 22 December. Fatality The final British The last British troops leave the Free State. They are the remnants https://en.wikipedia.org/ troops leave the 17/12/1922 of a 5,000 strong garrison maintained up to that point in Dublin, wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Free State commanded by Nevil Macready. h_Civil_War During intermittent and often intense firing in the city centre Cork City - One Michael Nagle of Oliver Plunkett Street was hit in the leg while in 19/12/1922 Barry Keane Fatality bed. As he got out of bed to attend to the injury he was shot in the chest and killed. Leap - One Fatality A car accident took the life of John O'Sullivan. 'The car was being 22/12/1922 Barry Keane (accidental) driven by a member of the military when it struck the child' Dr. Robert .S. Baylor, of Fermoy, died from wounds received when Kilworth - Shooting he was lured from his home by masked men. Dr. Baylor acted as a 22/12/1922 Barry Keane - One Fatality servant of the State in local Referee Courts and as solicitor for the Troops in Fermoy area The Free State https://en.wikipedia.org/ releases 300 The Free State releases 300 Republican prisoners who are no 23/12/1922 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Republican longer considered a threat to national security. h_Civil_War prisoners Monkstown - Three National Troops were cycling through Monkstown when they Shooting - One 23/12/1922 were ambushed. Samuel Crawford was killed in the first volley Barry Keane Fatality while the two others were disarmed. James Byrne and another man called Walsh were walking though Whitegate - 25/12/1922 Whitegate when an altercation developed. Both men were shot Barry Keane Fatality and Injury and James Byrne was fatally wounded. A National soldier Michael McDonald, was killed and an Irregular Ring - Raid - One 26/12/1922 badly wounded in a skirmish during a raid on a public house at Ring Barry Keane Fatality near Clonakilty. A Cork Examiner report states: 'According to an official statement Bantry - Shooting - 31/12/1922 in Cork an armed party shot dead a civilian named [Michael] Barry Keane One Fatality Downey at Pearson's Bridge near Bantry on December 31st'. A column of 65 Anti-Treaty fighters from Cork and Kerry IRA units, under Tom Barry, attacks Millstreet, Cork, under cover of darkness. They use 12 machine guns and take three National Army posts in https://en.wikipedia.org/ the town, taking 39 prisoners and capturing one Lewis gun and 35 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Millstreet - Anti- 04/01/1923 rifles. However they fail to take the main post in the Town Hall, h_Civil_War + Treaty Attack - to held by 23 Free State soldiers. They withdraw after several hours – http://www.corkpastandp Three Fatalities 05/02/1923 one party to Ballyvourney in Cork and the other to the Pap resent.ie/history/timeline mountains in Kerry. Three Free State soldiers were killed and -1918-1923/1923.html + several more wounded. Sergeant Major Jeremiah Mahony died on Barry Keane the day; Henry Pomeroy died on 19 January 1923 and James Nolan died on 4 February 1923. http://www.corkpastandp Cork City - Robert Finbarr Tobin ex-National Army St. Mary’s Villas Western resent.ie/history/timeline Shooting - One 05/01/1923 Road shot on Courthouse Street while out walking with his wife. -1918-1923/1922.html Fatality Shot 8 times

and Barry Keane Skibbereen (ref Denis Coakley (41) from Lissane Dunmanway died in Skibbereen Dunmanway) - Barracks from asthma and bronchitis caused by continuous active 06/01/1923 Barry Keane Illness - One service in bad weather. Coakley had taken part in a series of raids Fatality across West Cork from early December. National Army Sergeant Denis Minogue was shot and Lieutenant Balineen - Shooting 08/01/1923 Cassidy was wounded in 'a fierce engagement that took place' Barry Keane - One Fatality between a small number of National troops and irregulars. Dromina - Ambush National Army Christopher Smith shot and killed at an ambush in 19/01/1923 Barry Keane - One Fatality Dromina outside Charleville. The Irish Independent of 22 January 1923 records: 'Details obtained Castlefreake - One 20/01/1923 from official sources state that an irregular leader named V. Barry Keane Fatality Sweeney of Castlefreake was killed. When National Army troops arrived in the village of Newcestown around Mass time on Sunday 3 February, they ordered some local Newcestown - 03/02/1923 men to clear the road of a barricade left by the anti-Treaty forces. Explosion - Three to As they did so, a trigger mine exploded and two men - Patrick Barry Keane Fatalities 22/02/1923 Murray and Séamus O'Leary - were killed instantly. John Desmond was buried in Templemartin after his death in hospital in Cork, three weeks later [22 February]. A Postmaster J O'Reilly, is shot dead by Republican raiders on the https://en.wikipedia.org/ Clonakilty - post office at Clonakilty, County Cork. Postmaster Darrara Post wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Republicans kill a 03/02/1923 Office was found shot dead by the postman. There were several h_Civil_War and Barry postmaster bullet wounds on the body. His elderly mother was in the house at

Keane the time. Cork Courthouse - A passerby, Michael Cusack, was killed in an exchange of fire after 07/02/1923 Barry Keane Fatality a bomb was thrown at the courthouse in Cork The Free State https://en.wikipedia.org/ The Free State suspends executions until 18 February, offering an suspends 08/02/1923 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris amnesty to anyone who surrendered before that day. executions h_Civil_War

Republican officer Republican officer Tom Barry, after contacts with some former IRA https://en.wikipedia.org/ Tom Barry 10/02/1923 comrades on the Free State side, proposes that the Anti-Treaty IRA wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris proposes a truce call a truce. Liam Lynch turns down the idea. h_Civil_War

At Lyre halfway between Ballineen and Clonakilty ‘Spud’ Murphy and Larry Cunningham called into the local pub to warm 11/02/1923 Lyre - Shooting - themselves as they travelled to visit a sick relative of Cunningham. to Barry Keane One Fatality Free State troops surrounded the building and as Cunningham 15/02/1923 attempted to escape up the stairs he was shot. He died a few days later in the Mercy Hospital [15/02/1923] Cork City Nellie Hayes (17) of Tracton Park, Montenotte, Cork was talking to (Montenotte) - National Troops with some other children when one of their rifles Shooting - One 13/02/1923 Barry Keane discharged accidentally and she was shot through the neck. She Fatality was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. (accidental) Several members of Irregular Cumann na mBan were arrested in Cork for possession of ammunition. The individuals were named as Annie MacSwiney, Winnie Sheehan, Kathleen O’Brien, Kit Donovan, Annie O’Donovan, Eva Perry, J. Perry, M. Carey, M. Murphy, Miss http://www.corkpastandp Cumann na mBan 14/02/1923 Drummy, R. Barry, D. Barry, K. Murphy, N. Murray, Constance resent.ie/history/timeline Members Arrested Murphy, Madge Donovan and Kate Flynn. Annie MacSwiney began -1918-1923/1922.html a hunger strike in protest at her detention. On the same day three Irregulars (named Crimmins, Casey and Hegarty) were arrested (unarmed) near Rochestown. Drimoleague (ref Cork City Mercy Lieutenant Michael Ahern [National Army] was shot in the Hospital) - 16/02/1923 abdomen during a firefight in Drimoleague. He was taken to the Barry Keane Shooting - One Mercy Hospital in Cork, where he died. Fatality Cork City (Albert's Charles McIlgorm [Michael Gorman] was shot on Albert Quay by Quay) - Shooting - 18/02/1923 National Troops when he failed to stop. He was a crewman on the Barry Keane One Fatality Carrigan Head according to the Irish Examiner. Macroom Barracks http://www.corkpastandp attacked by Anti- On 19 February Macroom Barracks was attacked by Anti-Treaty 19/02/1923 resent.ie/history/timeline Treaty Forces - One Forces, with one soldier killed. [National Army David Lehane] -1918-1923/1922.html Fatality Cork City (Collins Barracks) - National Army Quartermaster Patrick Harford of the Dublin Guard Shooting - One 19/02/1923 was accidentally shot on 18 February 1923 in Collins Barracks. He Barry Keane Fatality died the following day in the Mercy Hospital. (accidental) Mallow (ref Cork City Mercy 20/02/1923 Commandant [General] Denis Galvin was wounded by an Hospital) - to accidental bomb explosion at Mallow of the 20th and died at the Barry Keane Explosion - One 28/02/1923 Mercy Hospital, Cork, on the 28th. Fatality Carrigtwohill - Carrigtwohill Railway Station was burned by armed men. The fire http://www.corkpastandp Railway Station 24/02/1923 was started at 10pm on Saturday, 24 February. The station house resent.ie/history/timeline Destroyed was totally destroyed. The goods store and residence were saved. -1918-1923/1922.html Meeting of Anti-Treaty IRA officers assembles at Ballinageary in . Officers from the First Southern Division report Ballinageary, Co. that, "in a short time we would not have a man left owing to the https://en.wikipedia.org/ Tipperary: Meeting great number of arrests and casualties". Tom Crofts reports that 26/02/1923 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris of Anti-Treaty IRA the Cork Brigades have suffered 29 killed and an unknown number h_Civil_War Officers captured in recent actions, "if five men are arrested in each area, we are finished". Nevertheless, Liam Lynch takes the opportunity to issue a statement rejecting the possibility of a truce. National Army Peter Clune was accidentally shot in Dunmanway on Dunmanway - 05/03/1923 5 March 1923 - a bullter from a revolver which a comrade was Shooting - One to holding accidentally going off and passing through his forehead Barry Keane Fatality 18/03/1923 when he was lying in bed. He died in Bandon Military Hospital on (accidental) 18 March. Nine Republican prisoners are taken from Ballymullen Barracks in Tralee to Ballyseedy Cross, ostensibly to clear a mined road. They https://en.wikipedia.org/ Ballyseedy are then tied together around the landmine, which is then wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Massacre: Eight 06/03/1923 detonated by National army troops. One man, Stephen Fuller, is h_Civil_War and DCHG Fatalities blown clear by the blast and survives. The eight other prisoners are Document killed. All of the dead are from IRA Kerry no 1 Brigade. A riot breaks out in Tralee when the troops bring nine coffins back to the town. Kealkil (ref According to Roll of Honour Jack O’Connor from Innishannon was Innishannon) - 07/03/1923 Barry Keane shot (murdered according to Roll of Honour) at Kealkill Fatality

Cork City (Patrick's The military stopped Michael Hickey (from Limerick) on Patrick’s Bridge) - One 10/03/1923 Bridge to search him. This developed into a fight and Hickey was Barry Keane Fatality shot. Irish Examiner p.5 William Healy enlisted in the Irish Volunteers, E Company, First Donoughmore (ref battalion, Cork Number 1 Brigade in 1918. He took part in many of Cork City (Cork the Volunteer activities and was involved in the attacks on Blarney Gaol)) - Execution - Police Barracks and the attack on all City Police Barracks in Cork One Fatality. This 13/03/1923 City in 1921. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Barry Keane was the only Civil Republican side. Captured by Free State forces, he was court- War Execution in martialled on a charge of possession of arms and was executed by Cork. firing squad on 13 March 1923. His was the only Civil War execution in Cork. The Republican 'government' issues a statement announcing a https://en.wikipedia.org/ An End to Public 13/03/1923 period of mourning and forbidding all public entertainments such wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Entertainments as sporting events while executions of their men continue. h_Civil_War

Cork-Waterford https://en.wikipedia.org/ The bodies of two civilians are found near Tallow on the Border (Tallow) - 13/03/1923 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Waterford/Cork border.[NAMES UNKNOWN] Two Fatalities h_Civil_War

Cork City - Sportsman William Goff Beale was shot by Republicans as a Shooting - One 19/03/1923 Barry Keane reprisal for an execution in Cork Fatality

Bantry - House Ben McCarthy (16) was taken from his home at 4am and shot as a 19/03/1923 Barry Keane Raid - One Fatality ‘reprisal for those were executed during the week’. 24/03/1923 National Army Cornelius O'Driscoll was wounded on 24 March Bandon - Shooting to 1923 at Green Barracks, Bandon, Co. Cork and died the following Barry Keane - 25/03/1923 day. Anti-Treaty IRA Anti-Treaty IRA executive meets in County Tipperary to discuss the https://en.wikipedia.org/ executives meet war's future. Tom Barry proposes a motion to end the war, but it is 24/03/1923 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris for war discussions defeated by 6 votes to 5. Éamon de Valera is allowed to attend, h_Civil_War in Co. Tipperary after some debate, but is given no voting rights. Ballinspittle - The National Troop post at Ballinaspittle was attacked and National Attack - One 28/03/1923 Barry Keane Army volunteer Bernard O’Connor was shot dead. Fatality National Army National Army troops under General Prout conduct large sweeps of troops search for the Knockmealdown Mountains in south Tipperary and Waterford. the IRA Executive They have extracted information from Republican prisoners in https://en.wikipedia.org/ in the 01/04/1923 Dublin that the IRA Executive is in the area. Prominent Anti-Treaty wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Knockmealdown IRA officers captured in the operation include Dan Breen, Todd h_Civil_War Mountains Andrews, Seán Gaynor and Frank Barrett. Many other rank and file between Tipperary Republicans are also taken prisoner. and Waterford Bandon - Shooting Volunteer John Flynn (National Army) was killed at Bandon by - One Fatality 01/04/1923 Barry Keane accidental discharge of a rifle. (accidental)

On the 5th of April a Military inquiry held in Cork into the death of Rathduff (ref Cork National Army Private Michael O’Brien. O’Brien was a member of City (Blackrock)) - the Railway Protection and Maintenance Corps and was a native of 03/04/1923 Barry Keane Bombing - One Rathduff. He was fatally wounded by a bomb thrown at the Military Fatality post at the Cork Blackrock and Passage Railway. A verdict of wilful murder was returned. Carrigtwohill - Carrigtwohill Postman Michael Barry had been shot twice in the Execution - One 07/04/1923 head and he died subsequently according the Cork Examiner of 12 Barry Keane Fatality April 1922. It is believed he had been shot as a spy by the local IRA.

Adrigole Ambush - A fight at had resulted in the death of two irregulars 08/04/1923 Barry Keane One Fatality [names unknown] and a girl [Margaret Dunne (26)].

National Army James Mahony was killed accidently at Bantry Bantry - One Barracks on the 9th April 1923. It was a result of a traffic accident Fatality 09/04/1923 Barry Keane when a motor lorry with National troops got overturned near the (accidental) deal yard along Bantry Quay. Liam Lynch, Republican Commander in Chief, is killed in a skirmish with Free State troops in the Knockmealdown mountains in County Tipperary. He and a group of republicans are caught on a hillside armed only with side-arms and Lynch is shot while attempting to flee. Four more senior Republican officers are captured in the incident. This is part of the same sweep that had captured several The Republican other senior republicans a few days earlier. Lynch's death is often https://en.wikipedia.org/ Commander in cited as the effective end of the war. Eamon De Valera and Dan wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Chief, Liam Lynch, Breen were in Lynch’s company at the time, but managed to h_Civil_War + is killed by Free escape. It was during a respite from shooting that Lynch realised he 10/04/1923 http://www.corkpastandp State troops in the was hit. and Bill Quirke came to his aid. When they saw resent.ie/history/timeline Knockmealdown he was seriously wounded they made him as comfortable as -1918-1923/1923.html Mountains in possible and left him to be captured. After being examined by a and Barry Keane Co.Tipperary doctor, Lynch was brought by ambulance to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Clonmel. He died there from his injuries shortly before 9pm that day. Dramatic evidence was heard at the inquest in Clonmel on the following day. The killing of Liam Lynch came at a time when he was unwilling to compromise on his principles for the sake of peace, while Éamon de Valera sought to end the conflict, stating that “the phase begun in 1916 has run its course”. The last request of Liam Lynch was to be buried alongside Michael Fitzgerald who died in Cork Gaol. General Prout of the Free State Army said this wish would be honoured. He is buried in Kilcrumper Cemetery near Fermoy. Professor Stockley, TD, declared at his funeral that “Ireland should be allowed to live her own life, and it was in that hope Mr. Lynch had lived and died”. Liam Lynch’s death would prove to be a major loss for the Irregulars, both militarily and politically. He was succeeded by Frank Aiken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/ Kealkil - Ambush - Two Anti-Treaty fighters [Lieutenant Denis Kelly and Mr. Coughlan] wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris 19/04/1923 Two Fatalities are killed in action at Kealkil, West Cork. h_Civil_War and Barry Keane

Frank Aiken is https://en.wikipedia.org/ elected IRA Chief 20/04/1923 Frank Aiken is elected IRA Chief of Staff. wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris of Staff h_Civil_War

barry keane and Cork City (Patrick's William Murphy, an elderly man, and a resident of Ninety-Eight https://en.wikipedia.org/ Bridge) - One 21/04/1923 Street (off Bandon Road) was fatally shot in Patrick Street, Cork wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Fatality City. h_Civil_War April 23rd Some youths attempted to shoot a National Army Officer Cork City (Patrick's 23/04/1923 on Patrick's Street on Saturday night. The officer escaped but an Street) - Shooting - to Barry Keane elderly man named William Murphy who was in the line of fire was One Fatality 24/04/1923 killed The civil war had been going on for ten months when, on 27th April 1923, Éamon de Valera, for the Republican Government, and Frank Aiken, for the Army, signed a proclamation ordering the cessation of offensive operations by anti-Treaty forces from 30 April onwards. De Valera put forward six points which formed the basis on which he was prepared to negotiate for peace. In summary, the six points stated that: - The sovereign rights of the nation should be indefeasible. - The Irish governmental authority, whether legislative, executive or judicial, was to be derived exclusively from the people of Ireland. - The people of Ireland should be the ones to Signed http://www.corkpastandp decide on disputed questions of national expediency and policy, Proclamation to 27/04/1923 resent.ie/history/timeline and the majority of adult votes on this prevails. Violence as a result end the Civil War -1918-1923/1922.html of disagreement on these matters is not permitted. - No-one who subscribes to these principles of national right, order and good citizenship can be excluded from determining national policy. - Citizens of the nation have the freedom to express political and economic opinions and to assemble in public meetings, and freedom of the Press also exists. -The military forces of the nation are the servants of the nation and are compliant with the National Assembly. Frank Aiken stated that all offensive operations had to be ceased from 30th April. He also added that all units had to ensure that they and their munitions were protected adequately. Mallow - Shooting - A Soldier [National Army Michael Moynihan] was killed by the One Fatality 01/05/1923 Barry Keane accidental discharge of a weapon in Mallow Barracks (accidental) Inchigeelagh - National Army John Duggan (17) from Clondrohid, on operations at Shooting - One 04/05/1923 Inchigeelagh, was accidentally shot by a cousin of his who was also Barry Keane Fatality a soldier (accidental) Frank Aiken orders the Anti-Treaty fighters to "dump their arms" End of the Civil and return home. Éamon de Valera supports the order, issuing a War: Frank Aiken https://en.wikipedia.org/ statement to Anti-Treaty fighters; "Further sacrifice on your part orders Anti-Treaty 24/05/1923 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris would now be in vain and the continuance of the struggle in arms fighters to give up h_Civil_War unwise in the national interest. Military victory must be allowed to their weapons rest for the moment with those who have destroyed the Republic". Donoughmore - Around 8pm on Thursday 28th June Thomas Dinan, from Gowlane, 28/06/1923 Explosion - Two Donoughmore, was returning home with his two sons when he to Barry Keane Fatalities picked up an object. It exploded killing him instantly and his son 30/06/1923 (accidental) Jeremiah Dinan, two days later on 30 June. At Dunmanway John Jack O’Donovan was at a house with some Dunmanway - friends and when they left they were challenged by armed men 17/07/1923 Barry Keane Shooting - Fatality who they did not recognise as National Troops. They decided not to halt O’Donovan was shot and killed. Following the Civil War and the truce of July 1921 the RIC disbanded and a new police force, “The Civic Guard” (renamed the https://www.garda.ie/en/ An Garda Síochána 08/08/1923 Garda Síochána na hÉireann on 8 August 1923) was formed by About-Us/Our-History/ Michael Collins and the Irish Government. The DMP merged with An Garda Síochána in 1925. Whilst a dance was in progress in a licensed house in Kealkill it was surrounded by troops from Bantry. Michael Coakley from York Kealkill - Shooting - 14/08/1923 Street in Cork City was shot dead and five others, including an Barry Keane One Fatality officer and two soldiers of the National Army were wounded in the shooting. Éamon de Valera arrested in Ennis, when he tried to make an https://en.wikipedia.org/ Eamon De Valera is 15/08/1923 election speech. He is imprisoned for over a year at Arbour Hill wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris arrested in Ennis Prison in Dublin. h_Civil_War A party of armed men shot at a member of the National Army on Gerald Griffin Street and he returned fire. A second party of men Cork City (Gerald opened fire from behind him and Abina Murphy St. James Square Griffin Street) - 18/08/1923 Barry Keane was shot in the abdomen while Miss Kathleen Deasy Spangle Hill One Fatality was shot in the throat. Abina Murphy died the following day in the North Infirmary A verdict of willful murder against unknown persons was returned by a coroner’s jury in Cork on Tuesday in the case of Theobold Cork City (Kerry 21/08/1923 Creber who was found shot in a field. He was an unemployed Barry Keane Pike) - One Fatality labourer was killed by a single bullet to the heart - shot on his way home by unknown assailants. Voting in 1923 Irish general election takes place. Cumann na nGaedheal win 63 seats; Sinn Féin 44; Independents 16; Farmers 15; Labour 14; and Independent Labour 1. About 415,00 first preference votes were given to Pro-Treatyites and 286,000 to Anti- Treatyites. (64% of the electorate voted.) Some of the Anti-Treaty members elected are still imprisoned. Voting in Cork city was described as quiet but heavy. Out of a total electorate of 66,700, over 43,000 men and women cast their vote. Five people were https://en.wikipedia.org/ arrested for impersonation. The candidates were: J.J. Walsh wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Irish General (Cumann na nGaedheal) (Outgoing); Professor Alfred O’Rahilly h_Civil_War + 27/08/1923 Election (Cumann na nGaedheal); R.H. Beamish (Progessive Association); A http://www.corkpastandp O’Shaughnessy (Progessive Association); Mary McSwiney (Sinn resent.ie/history/timeline Féin) (Outgoing); Dr C. Lucey (Sinn Féin), Alderman F. Murray (Sinn -1918-1923/1923.html Féin), T. Corcoran (Farmers’ Union), R. Day (Labour) (Outgoing), R.S. Anthony (Labour), Alderman W. Kenneally (Labour), Captain Collins (Independent) and Sir John Scott (Independent). The quota was 7,102. J.J. Walsh was the first candidate elected (receiving 2.5 times the quota) followed by Professor O’Rahilly and R.H. Beamish. After vote transfers Mary McSwiney and A O’Shaughnessy were also elected. (Cork Examiner 31 August 1923). In East Cork, John Daly (Labour), M.J. Hennessy (Cumann na nGaedheal) and D.R. Kent (Sinn Féin) were elected, followed by John Dineen (Farmers’ Union) and Thomas O’Mahony (Cumann na nGaedheal). In West Cork, Cornelius Connolly (Cumann na nGaedheal), John Buckley (Sinn Féin), Timothy O’Donovan (Farmers’ Union), John Prior (Cumann na nGaedheal) and Timothy Joseph Murphy (Labour) were elected. The overall election result was a victory for Cumann na nGaedheal, who won 63 seats and went on to form the next government. The Irish Free State was admitted to the League of Nations by a unanimous vote on 10 September. In his speech, President W.T. Cosgrave, speaking first in Irish then switching, declared to Irish Free State http://www.corkpastandp enthusiastic cheers from the delegates of other nations:“Today, Enters League of 10/09/1923 resent.ie/history/timeline with all the nations of this assembly, Ireland joins in a solemn Nations -1918-1923/1922.html covenant to exercise the powers of her sovereign status, in promoting the peace, security, happiness and well-being of the human race.” Republican A mass hunger strike is launched by 424 Republican prisoners in prisoners in 13/10/1923 Mountjoy Prison in Dublin in protest at their continued detention https://en.wikipedia.org/ Mountjoy Prison to after the war's end. The strike is joined by up to 8,000 Republican wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris begin a hunger 23/11/1923 prisoners in prisons and camps around the country. [The hunger h_Civil_War strike strike was called off on 23/11/1923.]

The Oriel House CID is disbanded and its members transferred to https://en.wikipedia.org/ The Oriel House the Dublin Metropolitan Police. In April 1925 the DMP was 29/10/1923 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris CID is disbanded amalgamated with the Garda Síochána. CID was responsible for a h_Civil_War number of killings of republicans during the war. Droumdrastil (near William O'Sullivan was in his house with five others when a Dunmanway) - 15/11/1923 masked member of the I.R.A. came in carrying a rifle. William Barry Keane House Raid - One O'Sullivan was asked outside and shot. Fatality Republican https://en.wikipedia.org/ Denny Barry died on hunger strike in Newbridge Internment camp. prisoner Denny wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris 20/11/1923 He was from Blackrock, Cork City and is buried in St Finbarr's Barry dies in a h_Civil_War and Barry Cemetery.

Newbridge camp Keane https://en.wikipedia.org/ Mallow - Hunger IRA prisoner Andrew Sullivan [from Mallow] dies on hunger strike wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris Strike - Andrew 22/11/1923 after 40 days in Mountjoy prison in Dublin over continued h_Civil_War and based on Sullivan - Fatality internment after end of Civil War on 23 May 1923. the work of Barry Keane https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris An attack on British Soldiers/Sailors and civilians at Queenstown Cobh - The h_Civil_War and {Cobh} is mounted by Irregulars with Armored car and firing on Irregulars attack https://www.irishtimes.co 21/03/1924 HMS Scythe; 1 killed [Pt. Herbert Aspinall] and 23 wounded. The British soldiers - m/topics/topics- Irish Free State paid for compensation for the families of the men One Fatality 7.1213540?article=true&t killed/wounded in the attack. ag_person=Herbert+Aspin all The United States recognized the Irish Free State as a state with autonomous control over its foreign relations on June 28, 1924, when U.S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes informed the British United States Ambassador in Washington that the President would be pleased to https://history.state.gov/c Recognition of 28/06/1924 receive a duly accredited Minister Plenipotentiary of the Irish Free ountries/ireland Ireland State. Diplomatic relations were established on October 7, 1924, when Timothy A. Smiddy presented his credentials as Minister Plenipotentiary of the Irish Free State in Washington. https://en.wikipedia.org/ A general amnesty A general amnesty is declared for acts committed during the civil 08/11/1924 wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iris is declared war. h_Civil_War