The Irish Revolution, 1916-1923 (2 page)
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Authors: Marie Coleman
Tags: #History, #General, #Modern, #20th Century, #Europe, #Ireland, #Great Britain
SF
Sinn Féin
TD
Teachta Dála
USC
Ulster Special Constabulary
UVF
Ulster Volunteer Force
| 1912 | |
| 11 April | The third home rule bill is introduced in the House of Commons. |
| 28 September | Over 200,000 unionists sign the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant in opposition to home rule and over 200,000 women sign a similar declaration. |
| 1913 | |
| 31 January | The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is established to resist home rule. |
| 26 August | Dublin tram drivers go on strike in support of trade union recognition sparking a lock-out of 20,000 industrial workers that lasted until early 1914. |
| 25 November | The Irish Volunteer Force is founded in Dublin. |
| 1914 | |
| 5 April | Cumann na mBan, the women's auxiliary of the Irish Volunteers, holds its inaugural meeting. |
| 24–5 April | The UVF lands over 35,000 rifles and five million rounds of ammunition in the Larne gun-running. |
| 25 July | The Irish Volunteers land guns at Howth and three Volunteer supporters are shot dead by British soldiers at Bachelor's Walk in Dublin. |
| 18 September | The third home rule bill becomes law but is suspended for the duration of the war. Provision will be made for the exclusion of part of Ulster. |
| 20 September | John Redmond makes a speech at Woodenbridge, County Wicklow, encouraging Irish Volunteers to enlist in the army. |
| 1916 | |
| 21 April | Roger Casement is arrested at Banna strand on Good Friday. |
| 23 April | Eoin MacNeill's countermanding order is published in the Sunday Independent on Easter Sunday. |
| 24 April | The Easter Rising starts when the GPO is occupied and the Irish Republic declared. |
| 29 April | Patrick Pearse surrenders, signalling the end of the Easter Rising. |
| 3–12 May | Fourteen rebels are executed in Dublin and Thomas Kent is executed in Cork. |
| 23 June | A majority of the Irish Party's supporters accept the offer of home rule for 26 counties. |
| 20 July | The home rule negotiations collapse. |
| 3 August | Roger Casement is hanged in Pentonville Prison. |
| 1917 | |
| 3 February | Count Plunkett (SF) wins the Roscommon North by-election. |
| 9 May | Joseph McGuinness (SF) wins the Longford South by-election. |
| 10 July | Eamon de Valera (SF) wins the Clare East by-election. |
| 10 August | W. T. Cosgrave (SF) wins the Kilkenny City by-election. |
| 25 September | Thomas Ashe dies from the effects of force-feeding. |
| 25 October | The Sinn Féin ard fheis takes place in Dublin. |
| 27 October | The national convention of the Irish Volunteers is held in Dublin. |
| 1918 | |
| 2 February | The IPP wins the Armagh South by-election. |
| 6 March | John Redmond dies. |
| 22 March | William Archer Redmond (IPP) wins the Waterford City by-election. |
| 16 April | The Military Service Act passes and the IPP withdraws from Westminster. |
| 21 April | Protests against conscription are held at Catholic churches. |
| 23 April | A general strike against conscription is observed widely outside Ulster. |
| 17–18 May | Seventy-three leading Sinn Féin members are arrested as part of an alleged German plot. |
| 20 June | Arthur Griffith (SF) wins the Cavan East by-election. |
| 14 December | The general election is held in which Sinn Féin wins 73 seats, Unionists 26 and the IPP 6. |
| 1919 | |
| 21 January | Dáil éireann sits at the Mansion House in Dublin. Two RIC constables are shot dead by the IRA at Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary. |
| 10 April | Dáil éireann decrees a peaceful boycott of the RIC. |
| 13 May | Two RIC officers are shot dead by the IRA during the rescue of Seán Hogan at Knocklong railway station, County Limerick. |
| 11 June | Eamon de Valera arrives in America, where he remains until December 1920. |
| 7 September | One soldier is killed and four injured in an attack by the IRA at Fermoy, County Cork, resulting in a reprisal attack on business premises in the town. |
| 12 September | Dáil éireann is proclaimed an illegal assembly. |
| 19 December | The IRA fails in an attempt to assassinate the Lord Lieutenant, Lord French. |
| 1920 | |
| 2 January | Black and Tan recruits join the RIC. |
| 15 January | Elections for urban local authorities take place. |
| 20 March | The Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Tomás MacCurtain, is shot dead by policemen in disguise. |
| 3–4 April | The IRA destroys 350 government buildings, including police stations and taxation offices. |
| 20 May | The munitions strike by dock and rail workers begins. |
| 2–3 June | Elections for county councils and rural district councils take place. |
| 21 July | Catholic workers are expelled from Belfast shipyards by loyalist co-workers. |
| 23 July | Recruitment of the Auxiliary Division of the RIC begins. |
| 9 August | The Restoration of Order in Ireland Act is passed at Westminster. |
| 20 September | Balbriggan, County Dublin, is attacked and property destroyed by Black and Tans and Auxiliaries as a reprisal for the death of an RIC head constable. |
| 25 October | The Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, dies in Brixton prison on the 75th day of a hunger strike. |
| 1 November | Kevin Barry is hanged in Mountjoy Prison. |
| 21 November | Bloody Sunday. A total of 41 people are killed, 36 of them in Dublin, including a number of intelligence officers shot dead by the Squad, civilians killed in police reprisal at Croke Park and leading IRA figures, Dick McKee and Peadar Clancy, while in custody in Dublin Castle. |
| 28 November | Seventeen Auxiliaries are killed in an IRA ambush at Kilmichael, County Cork. |
| 11–12 | Widespread damage is done to Cork City and a number of prominent December civic buildings are burned in a reprisal carried out by Auxiliaries. |
| 1921 | |
| 2 February | Four Auxiliaries are killed in an IRA ambush at Clonfin, County Longford. |
| 3 February | Eleven RIC officers and Black and Tans are killed in an IRA ambush at Dromkeen, County Limerick. |
| 20 February | Twelve members of the IRA's east Cork flying column are killed and eight are arrested at the Battle of Clonmult. |
| 19 March | Nine soldiers and one Auxiliary are killed by Tom Barry's west Cork flying column at Crossbarry. |
| 25 May | The Custom House in Dublin is attacked and burned by the IRA resulting in the arrest of nearly 100 members of the Dublin Brigade. |
| 22 June | The Northern Ireland Parliament is opened by King George V in Belfast. |
| 30 June | Richard and Abraham Pearson are shot dead by the IRA in Coolacrease, County Offaly. |
| 11 July | A truce is agreed ending the War of Independence. |
| 6 December | The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in 10 Downing Street. |
| 1922 | |
| 7 January | The Dáil accepts the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64 votes to 57. |
| 16 January | Dublin Castle is handed over to the Provisional Government. |
| 24 March | The MacMahons are murdered in Belfast by members of the RIC and B Specials. |
| 26 March | The army convention takes place, effectively splitting the IRA. |
| 13 April | An anti-treaty IRA unit led by Rory O’Connor occupies the Four Courts. |
| 27–9 April | Eighteen Protestants are killed in the Bandon area of west Cork. |
| 16 June | The southern Irish general election is held. |
| 17 June | Six Protestants are killed by the IRA in Altnaveigh and Lisdrumliska, County Armagh. |
| 22 June | Sir Henry Wilson is assassinated in London by two IRA members. |
| 28 June | The shelling of the Four Courts marks the start of the Civil War. |
| 12 August | Arthur Griffith dies of a brain haemorrhage. |
| 22 August | Michael Collins is shot dead in an IRA ambush in Beal na Blá, County Cork. |
| 28 September | Dáil éireann passes the Army Emergency Powers resolution establishing military courts that have the right to impose the death penalty. |
| 6 December | The Irish Free State comes into existence one year after the signing of the treaty. |
| 8 December | Rory O’Connor, Liam Mellows, Dick Barrett and Joe McKelvey are executed. |
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