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25 May – Irish War of Independence: The Irish Republican Army occupied and burned The Custom House in Dublin, the centre of local government in Ireland. Five IRA men were killed and over eighty captured by the British Army which surrounded the building. [5]
1921: 3 May: Northern Ireland is established. 1921: 6 December: Irish War of Independence: The War of Independence ends when negotiations between the British government and representatives of the de facto Irish Republic conclude with the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the creation of the Irish Free State. 1922: 28 June
The Partition of Ireland (Irish: críochdheighilt na hÉireann) was the process by which the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK) divided Ireland into two self-governing polities: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland (today known as the Republic of Ireland, or simply Ireland). It was enacted on 3 May 1921 under ...
The Irish War of Independence (Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse), [2] also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special ...
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.
3 May – The polity of Northern Ireland is created within the United Kingdom under terms of the Government of Ireland Act 1920. [1] [2]13 May – Irish elections, under terms of the Government of Ireland Act 1920: At close of nomination for elections to the new Parliament of Southern Ireland, all 128 candidates are returned unopposed and deemed elected.
By early 1921, British forces "believed that they had the upper hand in the county", with a RIC inspector in the county maintaining "that the I.R.A. had lost much of their fighting capabilities, and that they would never 'regain the hold they had on the popular imagination' and the police were now capable of travelling wherever they wanted in ...
Ireland portal; History portal; Geography portal; 1920s portal ... Pages in category "1921 in Ireland" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.