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Searc's Web Guide to 20th Century Ireland 1917-1923
Chronology
1917 Founding of Irish Prisoners Dependence Fund.
1918 All Ireland election. Sinn Féin win majority and form their own Parliament in Ireland.
1919 First Dáil meets in the Mansion House, Dublin. Black 'n Tans (demobed British soldiers formed into a auxiliary and regular army) are deployed in Ireland.
1919 Dan Breen starts War of Independence at Soloheadbeg.
Limerick Soviet (1919).
Dáil Eireann meets in Dublin. Michael Collins prominent in War of Independence.
Knocklong rescue of Sean Hogan.
1920 Black and Tans arrive from England. Auxiliaries arrive. Kevin Barry hanged. 'Bloody Sunday' in Croagh Park. Kilmichael Ambush. Burning of Cork by Auxiliaries.
1921 Burning of Dublin Custom House. English King opens Northern Ireland Parliament in Belfast; Sir James Craig appointed Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Truce & Anglo-Irish Treaty. Irish Free State and Northern Ireland State are created.
1922 Four Courts occupied by anti-Treaty IRA. General Election in Ireland gives pro-Treaty majority. Four Courts attacked by Free State troops. Civil War starts. Deaths of Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins. William Cosgrave, President of Executive Council. Executions of anti-Treaty IRA by Free State in Dublin - total executions by Free State to May 1923 was 77.
1923 End of Civil War. 14,000 prisoners released by Free State.
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People and Texts
Tadgh Barry (c.1917)
Sidney Gifford Czira (1889-1974)
George Noble Plunkett (1851-1948)
The Irish Election of 1918
Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922)
Arthur Griffith (1872-1922)
Alfred O'Rahilly (1884-1969)
Mary McSwiney (1872-1942)
John Joseph O'Kelly (1872-1957)
James White (1874-1940)
James Larkin (1876-1947)
Hanna Sheehy-Skefington (1877-1946)
Lily O'Brennan (1878-1948)
Margaret Cousins (1878-1954)
Terence McSwiney (1879-1920)
Eamonn de Valera (1881-1975)
Edmund Darrell Figgis (1882-1925)
Sean T. O'Ceallaigh (1882-1966)
Piaras Béaslaí (1883-1942)
Thomas Ashe (1885-1917)
Michael Collins (1890-1922)
Margaret Buckley (1885-1962)
Grace Gifford Plunkett (1890-1967)
Liam Mellows (1890-1922)
Linda Kearns MacWhinney (died. 1951)
Patrick McGill (1889-1963)
Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878-1957)
Ella Young (1865-1951)
Margaret Skinnider (1893-1971)
Terry Ward (1910- 1970)