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- With this, access to the street was available to residents from all over Cork City and thus began its increasing commercial importance. Parts of St. Patrick’s Street were damaged in 1920’s Burning of Cork during the Irish War of Independence but it wasn’t until the mid-1990s that redeveloping the area to what it is today began.
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Dec 10, 2020 · However, when they saw the fires on St. Patrick Street, the firemen decided to deal with them first. They also sent a messenger to the station at Sullivan's Quay looking for reinforcements.
Jun 18, 2022 · According to witnesses statements collected by the Irish Labour party in the aftermath of ‘the Burning of Cork’, a group of Auxiliaries proceeded from St Patrick’s Bridge down Patrick Street at about 9.30, smashing shop windows and firing indiscriminately.
Dec 11, 2020 · Aftermath of the Burning of Cork on St Patrick’s Street, photograph by W Hogan (source: National Library of Ireland) Some Figures: The biggest conflagration in Cork in 300 years. Nearly 100 businesses and homes were destroyed or badly damaged by fire and looting.
On 23 November 1920, a non-uniformed "Black and Tan" threw a grenade into a group of IRA volunteers who had just left a brigade meeting on St Patrick's Street, Cork's main street. Three IRA volunteers of the 1st Cork Brigade were killed: Paddy Trahey, Patrick Donohue and Seamus Mehigan.
- An Ugly, Intimate War
- The Dillon’s Cross Ambush
- The Burning of Cork
- Explaining The Reprisal
The burning of Cork was a reprisal for an IRA ambush on the same night at Dillon’s Cross, on the north side of the city. More broadly, it was part of an ugly, intimate war in the tight, steep streets of the city on river Lee. Since 1919, when the confrontation between the forces of the Crownand of the unilaterally declared Irish Republic had begun,...
According to Sean Healy, ‘A Company’ of the Cork city IRA had noticed that the Auxiliaries at Victoria Barracks left there every evening at 8 pm by the same route through Dillon’s Cross on their way into the city centre. Six men under an IRA battalion officer Sean O’Donoghue lay in wait for the Auxiliaries at Dillon’s Cross, armed with handguns and...
The houses around the ambush site at Dillon’s Cross were the first to be destroyed by the vengeful Auxiliaries, consisting of about 50 men of K Company, who then headed towards the commercial heart of the city. The regular RIC and British Army appear not to have participated in the burnings, but do not appear to have tried to stop the Auxiliaries e...
That Crown forces would seek revenge after guerrilla attacks killed one of their number is perhaps unsurprising. What is surprising however is the utterly indiscriminate nature of the Auxiliaries’ assault on Cork’s main shopping street. Big business owners, after all, were generally not supporters of radical nationalism, still less of the IRA. Sure...
Buildings in the St. Patrick Street area, Cork City Hall and the Carnegie Library were burnt on 11 December 1920 during the Irish War of Independence. The fire resulted from a rampage by Crown forces, following an Irish Republican Army ambush at Dillon’s Cross, Cork.
Dec 9, 2020 · About 10pm, following explosions, Messrs Grants’ Emporium in St Patrick’s Street was found to be ablaze. The superintendent of the City of Cork Fire Brigade, Alfred Hutson, received a call at 10.30pm to extinguish the fire at Grants.
