August 1919
|
Aug-01 |
Men from the North
Louth Irish Volunteers break into a lockup in Greenore port and steal 19
modern rifles. |
Hall (2019), pg 64 |
|
Aug-04 |
Two RIC men
(Sgt John Riordan and Constable Michael J Murphy) killed in an ambush at
Eight-One Crossroads under Mount Callon near Ennistymon, Co Clare. The ambushers were Martin Devitt, John Joe
Neylon and Seamus Coneally of the Mid-Clare Brigade of the Irish
Volunteers. |
Abbott (2000), pgs
43-44; Ó Ruairc (2009), pgs 99-100 |
|
Aug-07 |
Chief Secretary
Macpherson introduces a Bill in Westminster to improve the pay and conditions
of the RIC. This Bill is passed on November 30th and leads to an
increase in recruitment to the RIC. |
Townshend (1975),
pg 27 |
|
Aug-09 |
Start of week-long
Irish Volunteer training camp at Shorecliffe House, Glandore, Co Cork for 35
battalion and company officers of the No. 3 (West) Cork Brigade. More Detail |
Townshend (1975),
pg 31; Deasy (1973), pgs 69-77 |
|
Aug-14 |
Fifteen year old,
Francis Murphy, is killed after a British army patrol shoot into his home in
Glann, near Ennistymon, Co. Clare. |
Ó Ruairc (2009), pg
101; O’Farrell (1997), pg 72 |
|
Aug-15 |
The annual Ancient
Order of Hibernians (AOH) 15th August parade passes of peacefully
in Derry City characterised by a strong display of unity between nationalists
and republicans in the city. (The
earlier Orange parade on the 12th July and the Apprentice Boys
parade on the 12th August had also passed of peacefully.) However, that night there was sporadic
rioting throughout the city. A
harbinger of much worse to come. |
Grant (2018), pgs
92-93 |
|
Aug-15 |
Unlike in Derry,
there are clashes between AOH and Sinn Féin supporters in Dundalk, Ardee and Castleblaney. |
Hall (2019), pg 66 |
|
Aug-16 |
Re-organisation of
(West) Cork No. 3 Brigade of Volunteers. More Detail |
O'Donnoghue (1986),
pg35; Deasy (1973), pg 76 & 319 |
|
Aug-19 |
Fifth session of Dáil commences. Griffith reports on the progress in
setting up the court system and Barton’s proposal to set up a land bank is
accepted. |
Macardle (1999), pg
303 |
|
Aug-20 |
Motion passed by
Dáil that an Oath of Allegiance to the Republic should be taken by all (1)
Dáil deputies; (2) Volunteers; (3) officials of the Dáil and (4) others as
determined by the Dáil. More Detail Comment |
O'Farrell P (1997),
pg xv; MacEoin in The Kerryman (1955), pg 15; O'Malley (2001), pg 98;
Macardle (1999), pg304; O’Malley (1990), pg 109; Valiulis (1985), pg17;
Townshend (2014), pgs 86-89 |
|
Aug-20 |
A strike by farm
labourers in Co. Kildare, which had been on-going since the beginning of
July, was settled in the south of the county when the Athy branch of the
Farmers Union agreed improved terms for the labourers with the Transport
Workers Union. Settlement of the
strike in the rest of the county was reached on the 23rd August. |
Durney (2013), pgs
85-87 |
|
Aug-22 |
RIC Constable Timothy
Murphy dies from bullet wounds. It is
not known how he received his wounds. |
Abbott (2019), pg 411 |
|
Aug-27 |
Due to on-going
demobilisation and overseas commitments, the General Officer Commander-in-
Chief (G. O. C-in-C) of the British Army in Ireland, General Frederick Shaw,
writes to RIC Inspector General Joseph Byrne saying that from Christmas, the
British Army would no longer be able to provide outpost detachments. He went
on to say “the Garrison in Ireland will not be in a position to carry out the
police duties which have devolved upon it during the war and respond to the
constant calls upon it to assist the police”. See 9th September. |
Townshend (1975),
pg 29 |
|
Aug |
In the States, de
Valera (with Dáil approval) launches Dáil Eireann loan but runs into opposition
from John Devoy and Judge Colahan. He sets up organisation to collect
loan (American Commission on Irish Independence) with Frank P. Walsh as
Chairman. Eventually collects over $5 million. |
Macardle (1999), pg
311; Townshend (2014), pg 72 |