27 January – general strike call over working hours led by engineering workers in Glasgow and Belfast;[2] in Belfast the strike collapses after a month.
15–19 April – "
Limerick Soviet": a
general strike called by the Limerick Trades and Labour Council, as a protest against the declaration of a "Special Military Area" under the
Defence of the Realm Act covering of most of the city of
Limerick and its surroundings.
18 April – 1,000 delegates from all over Ireland attend the
Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis in
Dublin.
Éamon de Valera is elected President of the organisation.
19 April – Sinn Féin proposes an Executive Council of the Irish National Alliance to challenge the right of any foreign parliament to make laws for Ireland.
8 September – "The sack of Fermoy": drunken British forces rampage through
Fermoy following an inquest on the previous death of a British soldier which fails to find for murder.[9]
4 November – the British
Cabinet's Irish Committee settles on a policy of creating two Home Rule parliaments – one in Dublin and one in
Belfast – with a Council of Ireland to provide a framework for possible unity.[10]
12 November –
Mitchelstown Creameries, predecessor of
Dairygold, opens for business as a co-operative.[11]
19 December – volunteers from Dublin and Tipperary under the leadership of
Paddy Daly undertake an ambush on
Lord French's motorcade of three cars at
Ashtown Road in Dublin. Lord French is the British Viceroy, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Supreme Commander of the British Army in Ireland. While three of French's party – two RIC and a driver – are wounded, French gets through unharmed. Volunteer
Martin Savage is killed and
Dan Breen wounded.[12]
23 December – Irish Land (Provision for Soldiers and Sailors) Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, empowering the Irish Land Commission to provide housing for any men who had served in the British forces.
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^Cottrell, Peter (2009). The War for Ireland, 1913–1923. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. p. 92.
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