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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 ...
For lists of Irish Republican Army ambushes, see: List of IRA ambushes of the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) List of Provisional IRA ambushes (1970–1998) The following articles include ambushes by other Irish Republican Army organisations: Northern campaign (Irish Republican Army) (1942–1944)
Peter Rigney of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions described the Munitions Strike as "the largest manifestation of passive resistance during the war of independence." [7] Donal Ó Drisceoil of University College Cork has stated that the strike was "technically a ‘victory’ for the British government" but that it "seriously impacted on British military effectiveness and struck a major ...
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann [2]) was an Irish republican revolutionary paramilitary organisation. The ancestor of many groups also known as the Irish Republican Army, and distinguished from them as the "Old IRA", it was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916. [3]
This term was preferred by those who fought on the anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and is still used by Republicans today. The "Cogadh na Saoirse" ("War of Independence") medal, awarded since 1941 by the Irish government to IRA veterans of the War of Independence, bears a ribbon with two vertical stripes in black and tan. [59] [60]
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 ...
The USC was an armed corps, organised partially on military lines and called out in times of emergency, such as war or insurgency. [2] It performed this role most notably in the early 1920s during the Irish War of Independence and the 1956–1962 IRA Border Campaign. During its existence, 95 USC members were killed in the line of duty.
The Holywell ambush was an ambush on the Ballyhaunis to Claremorris road near Holywell in the early hours of Monday, 2 August 1920 carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence. Approximately 20 local IRA volunteers commanded by Patrick Kenny attacked a British Military detachment that was guarding a broken ...