#OnThisDay 1922 Rory O’Connor & 200 Anti-Treaty IRA men take over the Four Courts in Dublin. This was in open defiance of the Provisional Government & intended to provoke a reaction from British soldiers still in Ireland which would restart the war.
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British Army & RIC fire into Clare crowd, killing three 1920
#OnThisDay 1920 British soldiers & RIC in Miltown Malbay Clare, fire into a crowd of civilians celebrating the release of Republican hunger strikers from Mountjoy. Three men are killed & several more were wounded including a 14 year old boy & a teenage girl.
Squad Commander Paddy Daly kills DMP Detective Harry Kells 1920
#OnThisDay 1920 DMP Detective Constable Harry Kells was shot dead on the corner of Camden St & Pleasant St. by Paddy Daly of the Squad. Kells had been identifying IRA prisoners in Mountjoy. Collins told Peadar Clancy that “he was going to Kells tomorrow”. #Ireland #History
The First IRA attack on RIC Barracks in the War of Independence 1918?
#OnThisDay 1918 The first IRA attack on an RIC Barracks took place in Gortatlea, Kerry by Tom McEllistrim &his men. A few weapons were taken but two Volunteers were shot dead by RIC. This raid is sometimes classed as the first action of the War of Independence.
Two Irishmen awarded the Victoria Cross for Abyssinian Raid 1868
#OnThisDay 1868 in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), during the assault on Magdala, when the head of the column of attack was checked by the obstacles at the gate, a small stream of officers and men of the 33rd Regiment and an officer the Royal Engineers broke away from the main approach to Magdala, and, reaching the defences, climbed a cliff, forced their way over a wall and through a strong and thorny fence, thus turning the defenders of the gateway. The first two men to enter Magdala were Private Bergin (from Laois) and Drummer Michael Magner (from Fermanagh).
For this action, both Irishmen were awarded the Victoria Cross.
Pic: Private James Bergin VC
The Irish at War 