June 1919
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Jun-01 |
De Valera departs for
the U.S. - Harry Boland had gone before him to make preparations. |
Coogan (1990), pg
114 |
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Jun-04 |
The Irish-American
delegation submit their report on conditions in Ireland to the Peace
Conference in Paris. |
Macardle (1999), pg
295 |
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Jun-05 |
Four DMP officers
shot by Michael Kelly (Irish Citizen Army) during Connolly Commemoration |
O’Farrell (1997),
pg 50 |
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Jun-06 |
The U.S. Senate
passes a resolution (with only one vote against) asking for the delegation
appointed by the Dáil to be given a hearing in Paris and expressing sympathy
with the “aspirations of the Irish people for a government of their own
choice” |
Macardle (1999), pg
297 |
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Jun-07 |
A man called
Matthew Murphy is a passenger in a car which is shot at by the British Army
who were manning a road block at New Inn near Dundalk, Co. Louth. The
Army claims that the car did not stop when challenged but this is disputed by
the driver. Murphy dies of his wounds a few days later. (Gavin and O’Donnell
say 7th June but Hall says 4th June.) |
Gavin and O’Donnell
(1999), pg 26; Hall (2019), pg 65 |
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Jun-11 |
Second meeting
between Irish-American delegation and President Wilson in Paris.
President Wilson tells Walsh and his colleagues that the Committee of Four
had agreed that no small nation should be allowed to appear before the
Conference without the unanimous consent of the whole committee (of the Big
Four). Shortly after the meeting, in a note from American Secretary of
State Lansing, the delegation is officially told that the Irish case will not
be considered at the conference as it is considered an internal UK
affair. Figgis says in his Recollections “So ended in failure all the
careful plans that had been made during two years. So fell the brave structure of hope …” (Figgis says that de Valera did not leave
for States until after Lansing Note. Also, Townshend says June 6th.)
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Hopkinson (2002),
pg 167; Figgis (1927), pg 251; Macardle (1999), pgs 297-298; Townshend
(2014), pg 68 |
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Jun-14 |
John Alcock and
Arthur Brown land near Clifden, Co Galway after the first transatlantic
flight from St John, Newfoundland. |
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Jun-16 |
Ambush by men from
the Kilbrittain company Irish Volunteers on joint RIC-British Army patrol at
Rathclarin, Co. Cork. One IRA man and one British Army soldier wounded
and the Volunteers get away with five rifles, one revolver and 200 rounds of
ammunition. More Detail |
Deasy (1973), pgs
62-67 & 209; Hart (2003), pg 44 |
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Jun-17 |
Fourth session of First Dáil commences. Griffith tells the Dáil that “The
President has, by and with the advice of the Ministry, gone on a mission
abroad” |
Macardle (1999), pg
302; Gallagher (1953), pg 249 |
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Jun-18 |
Dáil establishes
the National Arbitration Courts and sets up a committee to devise a scheme of
organisation. To expedite problems with land agitation, local ‘Sinn
Féin’ courts also set up. In addition, Commission of Inquiry into the
Resources and Industries of Ireland set up by Dáil. Darrell Figgis is made Secretary to this
Commission. See September 21st. |
Augusteijn (2002),
pg 233; Figgis (1927), pg 266; Daly
(2017), pgs 340-343 |
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Jun-19 |
Dáil appoints
trustees for the National Loan and its terms are delineated. It also
states that the loan will become the first charge on the Revenue of the Irish
Republic after the English have evacuated Ireland. The British engage is
strenuous attempts to suppress the Dáil Loan with a mass of prosecutions and
the suppression of a large number of newspapers who carry advertisements for
the loan including several mainstream newspapers. |
Macardle (1999),
pgs 302-303; Townshend (2014), pg 101 |
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Jun-19 |
Prominent
Protestant Sinn Féin member in Belfast, Sam Heron, arrested for making a
seditious speech in Castlewellan. At his trial on the 13th
August, he refuses to recognise the court and goes on hunger strike. He
is soon released. |
McDermott (2001),
pg |
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Jun-22 |
De Valera arrives
in US - he was to stay in US until December 1920 |
Curran J M (1980),
pg25 & Hopkinson (2002), pg xiv & pg 169 |
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Jun-23 |
RIC District
Inspector Michael Hunt shot dead in the Market Sq. in Thurles by Irish
Volunteer Jim Stapleton. (The Volunteer party wore no masks.) |
Townshend (1975),
pg 20 & 26; Abbott (2000), pgs 39-40; Hopkinson (2002), pg 117; Macardle
(1999), pg 306; Dooley (2015), pg 49 |
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Jun-24 |
Irish bishops
meeting in Maynooth describe British rule as the “rule of the sword, utterly
unsuited to a civilized nation and extremely provocative of disorder and
chronic rebellion” |
Macardle (1999), pg
300; Durney (2013), pg 85 |
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Jun-28 |
The Treaty of
Versailles is signed. |
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June |
Dáil ministries get
set up - courts, local Govt, consular service, land bank, republican police
force |
Curran J M (1980),
pg25 & Hopkinson (2002), pg 40 |
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June |
Frank Gallagher
arrested in Dublin by DMP Sgt Bruton and given four months imprisonment for a
seditious speech in Myshall, Co. Carlow. |
Gallagher (1953),
pgs 120-123 |
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June |
A party of four RIC
men on their way to Mass are disarmed (and two wounded) by seven Irish
Volunteers men under Frank Busteed (Cork No.1 Brigade) in Dripsey, Co Cork. |
O'Callaghan (1974),
pg 44 |
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