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The Battle of Dublin was a week of street battles in Dublin from 28 June to 5 July 1922 that marked the beginning of the Irish Civil War.Six months after the Anglo-Irish Treaty ended the recent Irish War of Independence, it was fought between the forces of the new Provisional Government and a section of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) that opposed the Treaty.
The Irish Civil War (Irish: Cogadh Cathartha na hÉireann; 28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923) [3] was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Empire.
It was carried out by the National Army of the newly created Irish Free State against anti-treaty strongholds in the south and southwest of Ireland. At the beginning of the Civil War in June 1922, the Irish Free State government, composed of the leadership faction who had accepted the Anglo-Irish Treaty, held the capital city of Dublin, where ...
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The Battle of Kilmallock took place between 25 July and 5 August 1922 in County Limerick, Ireland.It was one of the largest engagements of the Irish Civil War.. It consisted of ten days of fighting in the countryside round Kilmallock in County Limerick, in which Irish Free State Army forces, advancing south from Limerick city, found their path blocked by anti-Treaty IRA troops, dug into a ...
List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1922 Ship State Description Ernesto I Italy: The cargo ship sank off Smyrna, Turkey. [2] Manji Maru Japan: The cargo ship ran aground at Heinan Head, China. [6] She broke in two of 17 February and was a total loss. [7] Nuovo Due Cugini Italy: The sailing ship was wrecked with the loss of three crew.
On 24 November 1922, Brigadier Lawlor with Commandant Generals Simmons and Cooney assembled the troops in Castlebar to prepare an assault on the Republican stronghold of Newport. [1] A priest gave them General Absolution before the battle. The soldiers from Athlone, Ballina, Claremorris and Westport and 'The Big Fella' armoured car left the town.