%   `."System- "System gl-"System--@Times New Roman--- :2 x`cThe Burning of Cork City Centre           2 xtc  @Times New Roman--- 72 `cIntroduction from Chronology          2 Xc  @Times New Roman--- 2 `ScIn retaliation for an IRA attack on a lorry load of Auxiliaries at Dillion's Cross                          2 `cin Cork City (      j2 ?cwhich resulted in the death of Auxiliary Cadet Spencer Chapman                     t2 `Fcand the wounding of eleven more), Black and Tans and Auxiliaries burn                    D2 `&csubstantial parts of Cork city centre            2 c   2 c  A2 $cover 60 shops are burned and looted            R2 `/cincluding two department stores. The City Hall              2 c  ;2  cand Carnegie Public Library are           %2 `calso destroyed.       2 c   s2 7`EcThe Auxiliaries also kill two IRA men who were brothers (Cornelius &                  |2 M`KcJeremiah Delaney) in their beds and shoot five other people, including two                    @Times New Roman--------------- a2 b`9cfirefighters. The Delaney brothers were members of the 1           --- 2 ]cst---  2 bc   2 bcB  (2 b,cattalion, Cork No.       @"Calibri------ 2 x` c1 Brigade   ---  2 xc  --------- 2 ` cMore Detail    2 c   2 c ---  2 c  --------- }2 `LcDamages run to over 3,000,000 and 1500 to 2000 people were put out of work.                   ---  2 c  --------------- P2 `.cIn the British House of Commons on December 13           --- 2 cth--- .2 c, Greenwood denied any         e2 `<cinvolvement by Crown Forces in the burning of the centre of                   %2 3cCork City. (Even        2 `Pcat the time, this was considered unbelievable. His credibility was even further                   |2 `Kcdented when he claims that City Hall was destroyed by flames on Patrick St                       2 c   2 c   2 "`Qcdespite there being quarter of a mile and a river in between them. According to                      2 7`cP  y2 7kIcakenham he was expecting the fire to travel a quarter of a mile without                2 M`Nctouching a house in any of the intervening streets, and jump the River Lee.)                       2 Mc   %2 i`cAuxiliaries shot     2 icat  a2 i9cand wounded firemen who were trying to put out the fires             :2 `cwhich the Auxiliaries had start        V2 H2ced. One of the key findings to emerge afterwards               |2 `Kcwas that the Auxiliaries had made preparations for some time beforehand by                   --- }2 `Lcstoring quantities of materials which could be used in a large arson attack.                      ---  2 c  --- \2 `6cA report by the BAs General Strickland lays the blame              2 c  22 cfirmly at the feet of the        2 `UcAuxiliaries but this report is suppressed. (This report is discussed at the British                  @"Calibri------------ A2 `$ccabinet conference on December 29th           2 c-  2 c  /2 csee Kautt (2014), pg 234    --- 2 Yc.) --- 2 lcA  --- k2 `@csubsequent report by Tudor shifted the blame away from the RIC.                  ---  2 nc  --- 2 #` cAfter the b   q2 #Dcurning of Cork City, some Auxiliaries take to wearing pieces of half                    2 #c-  42 9`cburnt cork in their hats.         2 9%c   2 U`NcThe Irish Labour Party/Trades Union Council carry out their own investigation                     82 k`cand interview more than 70 eye         2 kMc- 2 kS cwitnesses    2 kc   2 kc  C2 k%cthey publish their report in 1921 as           @Times New Roman---------------  2 `cW (2 pcho Burnt Cork City?      ---  2  c --- ^2  7cA Tale of Arson, Loot and Murder: The Evidence of Over                )2 `cSeventy Witnesses.     2 c  --- 2 `QcMichael Lenihan has produced a richly illustrated history of the burning of Cork                            2 `c   2 jc  }2 nLcsee Lenihan (2018). Gerry White and Brendan OShea have written a detailed                    2 `cac  g2 q=ccount of the burning of Cork and the period leading up to it                    2 =c   2 Gc   2 Lcsee White and    "Arial--ccbbaa