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27 April – Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the first Roman Catholic granted the office since 1685. 3 May – The state of Northern Ireland was created within the United Kingdom under the terms of the Government of Ireland Act 1920. [3] [4]
This is a timeline of Irish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Ireland. To read about the background to these events, see History of Ireland . See also the list of Lords and Kings of Ireland , alongside Irish heads of state , and the list of years in Ireland .
The 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty (Irish: An Conradh Angla-Éireannach), commonly known in Ireland as The Treaty and officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was an agreement between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the government of the Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence. [2]
RIC and British Army trucks outside Limerick This is a timeline of the Irish War of Independence (or the Anglo-Irish War) of 1919–21. The Irish War of Independence was a guerrilla conflict and most of the fighting was conducted on a small scale by the standards of conventional warfare. Although there were some large-scale encounters between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the state ...
1921 February 1 – Clonfin Ambush; 1921 February 3 - Dromkeen ambush; 1921 February 20 - Clonmult ambush; 1921 February 25 – Coolavokig Ambush; 1921 March 11 - Selton Hill ambush; 1921 March 19 – Crossbarry Ambush; 1921 March 21 - Headford Ambush; 1921 March 23 - Scramoge ambush; 1921 May 19 - Kilmeena ambush; 1921 May 25 - Burning of the ...
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 ...
On realising what had happened, Major Percival of the Essex Regiment rushed to the scene with his troops, but was only able to open a long range fire on the fleeing IRA men. He later blamed the failure of the British operation on the Auxiliary column which had gone to the wrong rendezvous point and had therefore left a gap in the encirclement.
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