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The burning of Cork (Irish: Dó Chorcaí) [1] [2] by British forces took place on the night of 11–12 December 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. It followed an Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol in the city, which wounded twelve Auxiliaries, one fatally.
- 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...
Jun 18, 2022 · In what the Cork Examiner called ‘a night of horror’, the burning of Cork on 11-12 December 1920 was the most devastating of the Crown force reprisals during the Irish War of Independence. Fifty-seven premises at the heart of the southern capital were destroyed by fire, twenty were badly damaged and twelve were wrecked and looted.
Dec 10, 2020 · It was an act of revenge that destroyed a city and terrorised its inhabitants. Gerry White tells the story of the Burning of Cork
Dec 11, 2020 · City Hall and Carnegie Library destroyed. Five acres of property had been destroyed, over 2,000 people had lost their jobs, and an estimated 3 million pounds of damage – or circa e100m in today’s world. Streets ran with sooty water, strewn with broken glass, strong sense of burning.
Donal Fallon remembers a night of chaos and terror in 1920. The historian recounts the violence before and the cruelty during the devastating Cork city fire that took place 100 years ago this...
Dec 11, 2020 · One hundred years ago an ambush on an Auxiliary patrol at Dillon's Cross in Cork city on the night of 11 December 1920 preceded the destruction of the commercial heart of the city...
