July
1919
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Jul-01-19/1 |
Patrick Studdert
from Kilkee, Co. Clare is shot dead by the British Army. He was deaf and therefore did not hear warnings
issued by the BA soldiers – one of whom (Sgt Wolseley of the Scottish Horse)
shot him in the back of the head. |
Ó Ruairc (2009), pg 328; O’Halpin and Ó Corráin (2020), pg 112 |
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Jul-01-19/2 |
An Irish Volunteer arms dump in Lr Stephen
Street in Dublin is discovered by the DMP. |
Molyneux and Kelly (2020), pg
105 |
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Jul-03-19/1 |
Henry Wilson, the BA’s CIGS, arrives in Dublin
and stays with John French, the Lord Lieutenant, in the Vice Regal Lodge in
the Phoenix Park. The following day
both Wilson and French were awarded honorary degrees by Trinity College. On July 5th, Wilson drove to his family home Currygrane in Co. Longford – see Aug-10-22/3. |
Jeffrey (2006), pg
258 |
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Jul-04-19/1 |
Sinn Féin, Irish Volunteers, Cumman na mBán and the Gaelic League are declared illegal in Co. Tipperary by Dublin Castle. This was in response to the killing of DI Hunt – see Jun-23-19/1. (For discussion at British Cabinet in the aftermath of Hunt’s killing – see Jun-26-19/1.) Fanning says that they were declared illegal but does not mention that it was only Tipperary. He says it came about because Llyod George had given French and Macpherson a free hand in deciding policy. O’Halpin says that the four organisations were declared illegal in Tipperary on July 4th and this declaration was later extended – see Sep-10-19/1. |
Townshend (1975), pg 27; Townshend (2014), pg 101; Fanning (2013), pg 201; O’Halpin (1987), pg 190; O’Sullivan Greene (2020), pg 20 |
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Jul-04-19/2 |
BA soldier, Frederick Daykin, commits suicide
in Limerick. |
O’Halpin
and Ó Corráin (2020), pg 550 |
|
Jul-05-19/1 |
Local Irish Volunteers, led by Andrew
O’Donoghue, ambush a two-man RIC patrol at Cahermore
Cross near Kilfenora, Co. Clare. Both RIC men are wounded and the volunteers
capture one carbine. |
Ó Ruairc (2009), pgs 96-97 |
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Jul-07-19/1 |
Private George Caygill of 106th Squadron, RAF commits suicide at the Fermoy Military Aerodrome in Co. Cork. |
O’Halpin
and Ó Corráin (2020), pg
112 |
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Jul-08-19/1 |
A member of the Royal Navy Reserve, Gideon Fraser,
accidently drowns in Co. Donegal. |
O’Halpin
and Ó Corráin (2020), pg 550 |
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Jul-12-19/1 |
Carson warns that if any change is made to the
status of Ulster, he would summon the Ulster Provisional Government and call
out the Ulster Volunteers. This
produces an angry response in a number of British newspapers where Carson’s
attitude is depicted as self-centred and disloyal. Llyod George was of the opinion that
Carson’s speech “has alienated a good deal of Conservative sympathy”. |
Macardle (1999), pg 300; Boyce (1972), pg 107 |
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Jul-12-19/2 |
A member of the Royal Navy, Ernest Mutter,
dies in an accident in Buncrana, Co. Donegal. |
O’Halpin
and Ó Corráin (2020), pg 550 |
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Jul-13-19/1 |
BA soldier, Arthur Stevenson, commits suicide
in the BA barracks in Tipperary Town. |
O’Halpin
and Ó Corráin (2020), pg 550 |
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Jul-14-19/1 |
Paul Galligan, Sinn Féin TD for West Cavan, is
arrested by the BA. He is taken to
Victoria Military Barracks in Belfast where he is brought before a secret BA
court. He is sentenced to 12 months
hard labour for drilling a body of men. |
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Jul-15-19/1 |
A five year old,
Kathleen O’Grady, of 19 South Richmond St in Dublin is killed by a motor car
driven by the BA’s Corporal George Troughton. |
O’Halpin
and Ó Corráin (2020), pg
112 |
|
Jul-17-19/1 |
After large rallies in New York and Boston, de
Valera sets out on a tour of the States visiting many states capitals and
addressing large crowds. |
Macardle (1999), pg 310 |
|
Jul-18-19/1 |
BA soldier, John Jones, dies in a motor
traffic accident in the Curragh, Co. Kildare. |
O’Halpin
and Ó Corráin (2020), pg 550 |
|
Jul-18-19/2 |
BA soldier, James Vance, dies in a motor
traffic accident in Belfast. |
O’Halpin
and Ó Corráin (2020), pg 551 |
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Jul-19-19/1 |
At a meeting held in 35 North Great Georges St, Dick McKee (O/C, Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers) and Mick McDonnell (QM, Dublin Brigade) pick a number of men (all from 2nd Battalion) and assigned them to ‘special duties’. The men were asked if they had any objection to shooting enemy agents. Some did and left. Others stayed. These included Tom Kehoe (20), Jim Slattery (20), Tom Ennis (27) and Vinny Byrne. Pat McCrea was the driver. Their first operation would be the shooting of DMP Detective Smyth - See Jul-30-19/1 These men would come to form the core of the
Squad. According to Coogan, the Squad was not formally founded until
September (See Sep-19-19/1) but by that stage they had been "operative
for two months and members of the Squad had two killings their
credit". |
Hopkinson (2002), pg
99; Coogan (1900) pg 116; Price (2017), pg 78; Molyneux and Kelly (2020), pg
107 |
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Jul-20-19/1 |
The RIC hut at Inch, outside Ennis, Co. Clare
is attacked. |
Mac Conmara (2021), pg 61 |
|
Jul-21-19/1 |
Private Donald Lawrence of the BA’s Machine
Gun Corps commits suicide in Moorepark, Fermoy, Co.
Cork. |
O’Halpin
and Ó Corráin (2020), pg
113 |
|
Jul-21-19/2 |
Lloyd George makes a statement saying that he
is trying to apply the principle of self-determination to Ireland but
Irishmen could not agree among themselves. He tells the British House
of Commons that Ireland was ‘not a nation’ and if nationalist Ireland was
entitled to self-determination, the Protestant people of north-east Ulster
had an equal right to it. T J S Harbison, the nationalist MP for
north-east Tyrone, replied ‘that the coercion of Tyrone into what is called
…Ulster will be the one of the most difficult propositions that any
government has yet set before it’. |
Macardle (1999), pg 300; Phoenix (1994), pg 66 |
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Jul-21-19/2 |
The Mid-Clare Brigade of the Irish Volunteers
attack two RIC ‘huts’. The attack in Inagh
is led by Joseph Barrett and the attack at the hut in Connolly is led by
Martin Devitt. The Volunteers do not
succeed in capturing either hut. |
Ó Ruairc (2009), pgs 98-99 |
|
Jul-22-19/1 |
BA soldier, George White, dies in an explosion
in the Curragh, Co. Kildare. |
O’Halpin
and Ó Corráin (2020), pg 551 |
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Jul-24-19/1 |
The Daily Telegraph states that the “Ulster Unionists possess the pledged word not only of the British Unionists, but also the British Liberals, that they shall not be coerced into a submission to an Irish Parliament against their wills”. The [London] Times predicts that the British government would bring forward legislation setting up two parliaments in Ireland – one for the nine counties of Ulster and one for the rest of Ireland. |
Phoenix (1994), pg 67; Boyce (1972), pg 106 |
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Jul-24-19/2 |
Two RIC men (Sgt Bernard Oates and Con JJ O’Connell)
are disarmed at Camp on the Dingle Peninsula in Co. Kerry. Four men are later
convicted for carrying out this disarming. |
Doyle (2008), pg 35 |
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Jul-30-19/1 |
Detective Sergeant Patrick ‘The Dog’ Smyth of the G Division DMP is shot by the Irish Volunteers in Millmount Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin after he had come of the tram at Drumcondra Bridge. First 'G man' to be killed. Smyth’s son and daughter came out of their home at 51 Millmount Avenue when they heard the shots. Smyth was brought to Mater Hospital where he died on September 8th. The assassination squad was Jim Slattery, Tom
Ennis, Tom Kehoe or Keogh and Mick Kennedy.
A second DMP Detective is shot dead on September 12th - See Sep-12-19/2. |
Hopkinson (2002), pg 99; Coogan (1990) pg 117; Abbott (2000), pgs 40-42; Price (2017), pgs 80-81; O’Halpin and Ó Corráin (2020), pg 114; Molyneux and Kelly (2020), pgs 108-110 |
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Jul-30-19/2 |
BA soldier, Francis
Mills, drowns in the River Liffey in Dublin. |
O’Halpin
and Ó Corráin (2020), pg
551 |
|
Jul-1919/1 |
The Inspector General
of the RIC reports that the leaders of the Transport Union “hold strong
Communistic and revolutionary views and the majority of its 68,000 members
are Sinn Féiners” and the union “may be regarded as
the left wing of Sinn Féin”. |
Mitchell (1995), pgs 178-179 |
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Jul-1919/2 |
William Wylie appointed
Law Adviser to the Dublin Castle Administration. |
McBride (2007), pg 267 |
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