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In 1908, Cork University was restructured and Queens College Cork become University College Cork. In 1925, Cork University Press was founded by Alfred O'Rahilly, the registrar (1920–1943) and president (1943–1954) of University College Cork (UCC). In the early years, a triumvirate of three directors managed CUP.
19 March – Irish War of Independence: Crossbarry Ambush: British troops failed to encircle an outnumbered column of Irish Republican Army volunteers in County Cork, with at least ten British and three IRA deaths. 21 March – Irish War of Independence: Headford Ambush: The Irish Republican Army killed at least nine British troops. [2]
Cork University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1-8591-8346-5; The Ogam Stones at University College Cork (with Damian McManus). Cork University Press, 2005. ASIN: B00FBBG3L8; Jack B. Yeats: Master of Ceremonies. Hunt Museum, 2004. ISBN 978-0-952-09222-3; Provision of Genealogical Services in Ireland. The Heritage Council, 2000. ISBN 978-1901-1372-17
The Crossbarry ambush, also known as the Battle of Crossbarry, occurred on 19 March 1921 and was one of the largest engagements of the Irish War of Independence.It took place near the small village of Crossbarry in County Cork, about 20 km south-west of Cork city.
26–28 April – Dunmanway killings: Thirteen Protestant men, suspected of involvement as or with informants to the British Army, are killed in and around Dunmanway, County Cork. [ 4 ] 14 April – Rory O'Connor , with 200 other anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army men under his command, occupies the Four Courts building in the centre of Dublin ...
The Two Irelands, 1912–1939 (Oxford University Press, 1998) Harry Boland's Irish Revolution, 1887–1922 (Cork University Press, 2004) Solitary and Wild: Frederick MacNeice and the Salvation of Ireland (Lilliput Press, 2012) Descendancy: Irish Protestant Histories since 1795 (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Geoffrey Roberts (born 1952) is a British historian of World War II working at University College Cork. He specializes in Soviet diplomatic and military history of World War II. [1] He was professor of modern history at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland and head of the School of History at UCC. [2]
1 March – Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-19 sank HMS Calgarian off Rathlin Island. 2 March – In Skibbereen, County Cork, Ernest Blythe was arrested for non-compliance with a military rule directing him to reside in Ulster. 6 March – In the British House of Commons, tributes were paid to John Redmond, Irish Nationalist leader, who died ...