Captain Con Murphy from near Millstreet, County Cork is executed by British authorities, the first man to be executed in front of a firing squad since the 1916 Rising.
5 March – Irish War of Independence: Clonbanin Ambush: Irish Republican Army kills
Brigadier GeneralCumming.
16–17 March – Irish War of Independence: Irish Republican Army kills two Royal Irish Constabulary constables in
Clifden;
Black and Tans, called in, kill one civilian, seriously injure another, burn 14 houses and damage several others.[1]
19 March – Irish War of Independence:
Crossbarry Ambush: British troops fail to encircle an outnumbered column of Irish Republican Army volunteers in
County Cork, with at least ten British and three IRA deaths.
21 March – Irish War of Independence:
Headford Ambush: Irish Republican Army kills at least nine British troops.[2]
25 May – Irish War of Independence: The
Irish Republican Army occupies and burns
The Custom House in
Dublin, the centre of local government in Ireland. Five IRA men are killed and over eighty captured by the
British Army which surrounds the building.[5]
20 June – Irish War of Independence: British Major-General
Lambert dies at
Athlone of a gunshot wound sustained in an IRA ambush; early on 2 July six farmhouses in the area are burned apparently in retaliation and the following day the IRA, in turn, burn down
Moydrum Castle.[6][7]
10 July –
Bloody Sunday: Clashes between
Catholics and
Protestants in
Belfast result in 16 deaths (23 over the surrounding four-day period) and the destruction of over 200 (mostly Catholic) homes.[9]
11 July – under the terms of the truce (signed on 9 July) which becomes effective at noon, the
British Army agrees that there will be no provocative display of forces or incoming troops. The
Irish Republican Army agrees that attacks on Crown forces will cease.
21 July - The
Belfast Pogrom begins with the one day removal of thousands of Belfast shipyard, factory and mill workers from their jobs.
1 November –
Frances Kyle and
Averil Deverell are called to the Bar of Ireland, becoming the first female barristers in the British Isles.
6 December – agreement is reached in the
Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations in London. The main points include the creation of an
Irish Free State within the
Commonwealth, an
Oath of Allegiance to the Crown, and retention by the British naval services of the use of certain
ports.
December –
Éamon de Valera accuses the delegation to London of having ignored its instructions.
Arthur Griffith accuses de Valera of knowing at the time that a Republic could not be achieved.
24 February –
Terence MacSwiney's play The Revolutionist (set and published in 1914) has its stage premiere posthumously at the Abbey Theatre.[11] His writings Principles of Freedom are collected from Irish Freedom (1911–12) and published this year also.
Ina Boyle's pastoral for orchestra Colin Clout is premiered.
George Moore publishes the novel Heloise and Abelard.
L. A. G. Strong publishes the poetry Dublin Days (in Oxford).
^Villiers-Tuthill, Kathleen (2006). Beyond the Twelve Bens — a history of Clifden and district 1860-1923. Connemara Girl Publications. pp. 177, 209–213.
ISBN978-0-9530455-1-8.
^O'Halpin, Eunan & Ó Corráin, Daithí (2020), The Dead of the Irish Revolution, Yale University Press, pgs 350-352
^Statutory Rules & Orders published by authority, 1921, No. 533
^Jackson, Alvin (2004). Home Rule – An Irish History. Oxford University Press. p. 198.
^Foy, Michael T. (2006). Michael Collins's Intelligence War: the struggle between the British and the IRA, 1919–1921. Stroud: Sutton. pp. 214–218.
ISBN0-7509-4267-3.
^Ward, Alan J. (1994). The Irish Constitutional Tradition: Responsible Government and Modern Ireland 1782–1922. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America. pp. 103–110.
ISBN0-8132-0793-2.