Espousing the cause of Labour became a dangerous position throughout the autumn and winter of 1920 as union members became the target of the military and the police.   In some cases the Black and Tans as they marauded through the countryside paid little heed to who was who and often targeted the offices of prominent local officials. In November 1920 the secretary of the ITGWU in Ardee, county Louth, James Dolan was ...

Amidst all of the bloodshed which November 1920 brought, the cause of labour and the work of unions continued, protecting the rights of workers.   However, within that remit of protecting workers the unions by this stage were also involved in the wider Republican campaign which was waging throughout the country. In November 1920 the newspaper The Watchword of Labour publically condemned those who had gone to work on...

In November 1920 Sir Hamar Greenwood, in the course of the discussions in the British House of Commons described the Irish Bulletin newspaper as the organ of the ‘murder gang’ claiming that it espoused outrage and sympathised with murder. This may have been true in some respects but it did condone the murder of innocent civilians and the damage to property. On the contrary, it actively engaged in reporting the crimes, w...

In an effort to highlight the rapacity of the British military, and in particular the actions of the Black and Tans in reprisal, newspapers such as Irish Bulletin published the names and details of those who had been subjected to extreme violence or who had been murdered. In November 1920 the Bulletin carried the following information about the terror campaign in Ireland:   Murder of Denis Carey of Nenagh, taken fro...

The events on Bloody Sunday, particularly in Croke Park where a football match between Tipperary and Dublin was attacked by the Black and Tans, has received considerable media attention this month on the 100th anniversary of the event. In Croke Park recently the names of the 14 victims, including Tipperary footballer Michael Hogan were remembered in a very poignant ceremony. Less well known though are the names of some of t...

The events on Bloody Sunday in Croke Park; the murder of members of the ‘Cairo Gang’ by Michael Collins’ ‘Squad; the execution of Kevin Barry and the ambush of the Black & Tans at Kilmichael loom large over the story of the War of Independence in November 1920. But what else happened during that month in Ireland 100 years ago? The pages of the Irish Newspaper Archive and Radical Newspaper Archive provide the answ...

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Tipperary Vs Dublin 21.November.1920 - Match Preview Sunday Independent  As excitement grew on the morning of the  21.November.1920 the Sunday Independent match preview reads like so many others. Little did the travelling supporters or the footballers know what the day would bring. The shocking events that unfolded at Croke Park that day would stun the nation and the world.  Download the Sunday Independents pre-match rev...

There was plenty of activity in Roscommon in October 1920 but an IRA attack on the RIC barracks in the village of Frenchpark ended in failure when the heavily outnumbered police force managed to stave off their attackers. The raiders occupied the post office and two houses close to the barrack from which they launched their attack. Again, using a different time and in an effort to catch the RIC by surprise, the barracks was...

What followed a month of reprisal and intimidation was an upsurge in attacks on the RIC and the military. Aided by the cover of darkness that the autumn evenings provided, the IRA once more upped the ante on the military and met them head on. October 1920 was a month of ambush and shooting recorded in the pages of the Irish Newspaper Archive & the Radical Newspaper Archive. Somewhat unfortunately, the newspaper account...