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- With the benefit of hindsight at 100 years remove, and taken in the context of escalating violence and tension throughout that year, it was hardly surprising that a major police retaliation took place in Cork city on the night of December 11th, 1920.
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Dec 13, 2017 · On the night of December 11-12, 1920 Auxiliary policemen burned much of the commercial centre of Cork city to the ground. While in parliament at Westminster the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Hamar Greenwood, tried to argue that the Auxiliaries were not responsible, alleging the damage had been caused by ‘looters’, the letters of one ...
Jun 3, 2020 · With the benefit of hindsight at 100 years remove, and taken in the context of escalating violence and tension throughout that year, it was hardly surprising that a major police retaliation took...
Jun 18, 2022 · By December 1920, Cork city was a tinderbox of violence just waiting for a spark. Zoom into the map and click on the labelled locations to discover more about what happened in Cork in the months leading up to the Burning of Cork.
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. In retaliation, the Auxiliaries, Black and Tans and ...
Cork Burning 11-12 December 1920. Following the Dillon's Cross incident in which 1 auxiliary, S R Chapman was killed and about 12 were wounded in a grenade attack on 2 Auxiliary tenders in Cork there was massive retaliation by Crown forces. There is much debate expended as to who they were.
Dec 9, 2020 · It was a night like no other in Cork’s War of Independence. The Cork Examiner records that about 7.30pm on Saturday night, 11 December 1920 Auxiliary police were ambushed near Dillion’s Cross on the way to Cork Barracks.
Dec 10, 2020 · On the morning of 11 December 1920, a climate of fear and uncertainty hung over the city of Cork. Though Christmas was a mere two weeks away, the people of the city had little to be cheerful...
