June
1921
|
Early Jun |
|
Major drive by
British Army, Auxiliaries and RIC in the Bricklieve mountains area of south
Sligo. Three thousand men were rounded
up and taken to identification points but only seven were detained. Tom Deignan, O/C Riverstown Battalion was
the only notable IRA man arrested. |
Farry
(2012), pg 70 |
|
Jun-01 |
|
A policeman (Constable Joseph Holman) is killed at Ballinrush,
Kilworth, Co Cork when out walking with a female friend. Constable
Holman was from Sussex in England and had almost eight months’ service in the
RIC. |
O’Donoghue (1986),
pg 138; Abbott (2000), pgs 247-248 |
|
Jun-01 |
|
Five policemen
(including a sergeant and a DI) of a cycle patrol are killed in an ambush
between Castlemaine and Milltown, Co. Kerry. The ambush is carried out
by the Kerry No. 1 Brigade Flying Column under Tadgh Brosnan and men from the
3rd Battalion under Tom O'Connor. The policeman
killed were DI Michael McCaughey, Sgt James Collery, Constable Joseph Cooney,
Constable John McCormack and Constable John Quirk. An IRA man (Jerry
Myles) was wounded. Gallagher says that there were nine RIC men in the
patrol and that the ambush party consisted of 18 to 20 men but they had only
one rifle and one carbine between them with the rest of the IRA men armed
with shotguns until additional men from "The Hut" arrived with five
rifles. The IRA got 8 or 9 rifles, 6 revolvers and a quantity of
ammunition. O’Farrell says that Myles was killed in action. |
O’Donoghue (1986),
pg 168; Abbott (2000), pg 248-249; Gallagher in The Kerryman (1955), pgs
225-228; O’Farrell (1997), pg 73; Horgan (2018), pg 85; Leeson (2012), pg 139 |
|
Jun-01 |
|
Main office of
Intelligence Section of IRA GHQ at 5 Mespil Rd is raided by British forces.
The owner of the house, Ms Patricia Hoey, feigns her mother’s illness to get
message to warn Collins who is on his way to the house. |
O'Farrell P (1997),
pg 45 |
|
Jun-01 |
|
Mulcahy tells Simon
Donnolly that he was seconded him to the Department of Home Affairs to assist
them in establishing a Civil Police Force. At this point there were only six
fulltime paid IRA police in Dublin. |
Townshend (2014),
pg 267 |
|
Jun-01 |
|
Special Constable
Robert Armstrong is accidentally shot dead in Gortin RIC Barracks in Co. Tyrone. |
Abbott (2019), pg
403 |
|
Jun-01 |
|
The IRA’s North
Mayo Flying Column ambush a seven-man RIC cycle patrol at Cullens south-west
of Dromore, Co. Sligo. Two RIC men (Constable Thomas Higgins and
Constable John King) were taken prisoner and, as the IRA were pursued by
police and military into the Ox Mountains, there was disagreement as to what
should be done with the policemen but it was decided to give them “a few
short seconds in which to say their prayers” before they were shot. The Irish
Bulletin said the policemen were shot in a running gun fight. (Abbott and Price
give the date as 1st July but Hopkinson and Farry give the date as
1st June.) |
Hopkinson (2002),
pg 137; Abbott (2000), pg 26; Farry
(2012), pg 71; Price (2012), pgs167-168 |
|
Jun-02 |
|
Attack on a police
patrol (both cycle and car) by North Tipperary Flying Column led by Sean
Gaynor at Kallegbeg Cross,
Modreeny (between Borrisokane and Cloughjordan) results in the death of four
RIC men. More Detail |
Abbott (2000), pgs
249-250; Hopkinson (2002), pg 122; O'Malley (2001), pgs 134-155; Abbott
(2019), pgs 317-318; Leeson (2012), pg 103 |
|
Jun-02 |
|
British cabinet
endorses recommendations of Irish Situation Committee (see 26th
May) and Worthington-Evans begins sending troop reinforcements. Llyod
George equivocal on military being right for the job. |
|
|
Jun-02 |
|
IRA Volunteer Mick
Carty from Aughaderry, Loughglynn, Co. Roscommon is shot dead by the
‘Castlerea Murder Gang’ as he lies in bed in the Connor’s house in
Aughadristan. His comrade, Pete
Shannon, who was sharing the bed with him, is shot seven times but manages to
survive. |
Gleeson (1962), pg
105; Breen (1989), pg 132; O’Farrell (1997), pg 103; O’Callaghan (2012), pgs
174-175 |
|
Jun-02 |
|
A number of British
soldiers, based in Drumboe Castle, in Ballybofey, Co. Donegal decide to go
fishing on Trusk Lake. They are spotted and four local Volunteers led by
James McCarron (an ex-British army soldier) who decide to attack them. However, as the IRA men move towards the
soldiers, they are spotted and outflanked.
When the IRA are called on to surrender, they decide to try to fight their
way out. In the firefight, McCarron is
shot dead and another Volunteer, Patrick McAteer, is wounded. However, McAteer and the other two IRA men
manage to escape. The Crown Forces
carry out a widespread follow-up search in an attempt to capture the IRA
men. When they enter a house at
Corraffrin, they shoot 21-year Edward Doherty in the stomach – he dies of his
wounds the following day. It is
claimed by Sir Hamar Greenwood that Doherty tried to flee when the Crown
Forces entered the house but this is not believed locally. He was not a member of the IRA. See June 10th. |
O’Farrell (1997),
pg 112; Lawlor (2011), pgs 169-172; Ó Duibhir (2009), pgs 276-277; Ozseker
(2019), pg 134 |
|
Jun-03 |
|
The flying column
of the West Mayo Brigade of the IRA (about 45 to 50 men) led by Michael
Kilroy ambushes a 17-man RIC patrol of two lorries and a car patrol at Carrowkennedy (between Leenane and
Westport) resulting in the death of seven policemen (Hopkinson says six but
Abbott names seven). Their names were District Inspector Edward
Stevenson, Sgt Francis Creegan, Constable Sydney Blythe, Constable James
Brown, Constable John Doherty, Constable Thomas Dowling and Constable William
French. Six other constables were wounded. The RIC surrendered and the IRA captured a
substantial amount of arms including 28 Lee-Enfield rifles and a Lewis
sub-machine gun. The RIC who
surrendered were released. The IRA suffered no casualties. Constables Blythe
and French were from England and Constable Brown was from Scotland with
between three and six months’ service in the RIC. The remaining four RIC killed were Irish. Following this
ambush, Crown Forces launched a large search trying to track down Kilroy’s
column. For the following month, the column had to keep on the move
throughout west and north Mayo with the British in pursuit. During this time (on the 20th
June), the famous photograph of West Mayo Flying Column was taken by Jack
Leonard at Derrymartin under the shadow of Nephin Mountain. The photograph is available on the BMH
website: http://photogallery.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/displayimage.php?album=46&pid=433#top_display_media |
Hopkinson (2002),
pg 135; Abbott (2000), pgs 250-252; Price (2012), pgs 156-163; Abbott (2019),
pgs 318-321 |
|
Jun-03 |
|
Chief Secretary
(Greenwood) issues order that official reprisals are to cease. This
would seem to have come about as the IRA were burning the houses of prominent
unionists in retaliation for official British Army burning of houses near
ambush sites. |
Townshend (1975),
pg 185; Townshend (2014), pg 289 |
|
Jun-03 |
|
Seán (or John)
McIntyre (or McEntyre) from Lagan, Belturbett, Co, Cavan dies. Apparently, he was trying to blow up the
home of landlord David Griffith (which was due to be occupied by British
forces) when the bomb explodes as he goes to see why it was taking so long
and masonry falls on him, killing him. |
O’Farrell (1997),
pg 112; Carolan (2019), pg 29; Lawlor (2011), pgs 173-174 |
|
Jun-03 |
|
Two members of the
Dublin Brigade ASU, Paddy O'Connor and Jim McGuiness, attack a cricket match
in Trinity College involving the Gentlemen of Ireland vs the Military of
Ireland but the only casualty is a young woman who was a spectator called
Kate Alexander Wright (21). |
O'Connor and
Connolly (2011), pg 51 |
|
Jun-03 |
|
RIC Constable
Patrick McDonald is accidentally shot in Edenderry Barracks in Co. Offaly
while it is under attack. |
Abbott (2019), pg 409 |
|
Jun-04 |
|
The coastguard
station at Teelin near Kilcar, Co. Donegal is attacked by the IRA’s No. 3
Donegal Brigade. It is claimed that a
British soldier and a coastguard (called Kensington) are killed in this
attack. |
Ó Duibhir (2009),
pgs 278-279; Ozseker (2019), pg 258 |
|
Jun-04 |
|
Attempted
‘springing’ of republican prisoners from Crumlin Road jail. Three IRA
men (Sean O’Neill; Jimmy McDermott and Pat McCarragher) dressed in British
army and RIC uniforms drove up to the jail and were admitted. They said
they were to take custody of some IRA prisoners (those captured at Lappinduff
– see May 8th) but one of the IRA men (O’Neill) was recognised and
the alarm was raised. The three men escaped but did not spring any
prisoners. |
Parkinson (2004),
pg 126; McDermott (2001), pgs 85-86; Lawlor (2011), pg 161-162 |
|
Jun-04 |
|
IRA burn ordnance
store in the Dublin Shell factory destroying 5 armoured cars and 35 other
vehicles. Townshend comments that this type of action could have been
repeated elsewhere. |
Townshend (1975),
pg 185-186; Townshend (2014), pg 290 |
|
Jun-04 |
|
P. Burns from Cork
dies |
O’Farrell (1997),
pg 103 |
|
Jun-04 |
|
Thomas Keane
executed in Military Detention Barracks Limerick. Mourners outside
attacked by Black and Tans. |
O’Farrell (1997),
pg 49; Macardle (1999), pg 984 |
|
Jun-05 |
|
An RIC patrol is
ambushed in Swatragh, Co. Londonderry resulting in the death of Sgt Michael
Burke and the wounding of S/Constable John Kennedy. The ambush party is led by Johnny
Haughey. In retaliation, that evening
a Sinn Féin member, Alexander O’Connor, is shot dead when cycling through
Swatragh and, over the next few days, over 200 houses are raided. |
Abbott (2000), pg
253; Grant (2018), pg 115; Lawlor (2011), pgs 174-175 |
|
Jun-05 |
|
P. McAteer from
Faughilotra, Co. Antrim dies |
O’Farrell (1997),
pg 111 |
|
Jun-05 |
|
A police patrol is
attacked by men from the 2nd Battalion, West Limerick Brigade
under Paddy O’Brien in Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick resulting in the death of one
(Constable Robert Jolly) and the wounding of five others. The IRA had
posted notices around the Square in Abbeyfeale telling the Black and Tans to
go home. It was when the RIC stopped
to remove these posters that they were attacked. As usual, RIC reprisals followed this
attack. Constable Jolly was
from Kent in England and had seven months’ service in the RIC. |
Abbott (2000), pgs
253-254; Harnett (2002), pgs 101-103; Abbott (2019), pgs 322-323 |
|
Jun-06 |
|
In his weekly
summary, the Chief Secretary (Greenwood) admitted that there was 'a very
marked increase in rebel military activity'. In late March, British
military and police casualties were about 30 per week, but in the second week
of May they had risen to 55 per week, and to 67 in the first week in June,
with 23 and 24 fatalities respectively. |
Townshend (1975),
pg 180 |
|
Jun-06 |
|
In its first
engagement, the North Galway flying column, attack a lorry load of
Auxiliaries near the village of Moylough.
While there are injuries, there are no fatalities on each side. |
McNamara (2018), pg
130 |
|
Jun-06 |
|
IRA volunteer, John
Cummmins, is killed by Crown Forces at Ballyvoile, Co. Waterford. |
McCarthy (2015), pg
84 |
|
Jun-06 |
|
James Smith, a
farmer from Keggall, Camlough, Co. Armagh, is taken from his home and shot
dead. Earlier, Hugh O’Hanlon, a farmer
from Eshwary, Camlough was shot dead on his way home about 11pm. A group of men had raided his house around
10pm and took away a revolver and ammunition that Mr O’Hanlon had been given
for his protection. Both men had notes
pinned to their chest saying “Spies beware – IRA”. Both men were Catholics. |
Lawlor (2011), pgs
166-168 |
|
Jun-06 |
|
The home of RIC
Constable John Carroll (see 14th February 1921) at Ballywilliam,
Co. Tipperary is burnt down and his brother, on exiting the house, is shot
dead. |
Abbott (2019), pg
253 |
|
Jun-06 |
|
RIC Constable
George Southgate was unloading his rifle in Ballaghdereen Barracks, Co. Roscommon
when it accidentally discharges – he dies of his wounds on the 10th
June. |
Abbott (2019), pg
412 |
|
Jun-07 |
|
Edward Foley
(Galbally, Co Limerick) and Paddy Maher (Knocklong, Co Limerick) hung in
Dublin for their part in the rescue of Sean Hogan at Knocklong Railway
Station on 13th May 1919. A third man who had also been
found guilty (Michael Murphy) was released after the Truce. Foley had
taken part in the rescue but Maher had not. An RIC man called
William Mitchell was also hung in Mountjoy that morning - he had been
convicted of murdering a Justice of the Peace, George Dixon, in Dunlavin, Co.
Wicklow while trying to extort money from him. He was the only member
of the Crown Forces to hang for murder during this period. See February 2nd. |
Abbott (2000), pg
39; Carey (2001), pg 6; Breen (1989), pg 59 & 68 - who says 6th
June; Carey (2001), pg 174; Leeson (2012), pgs 199-200 |
|
Jun-07 |
|
Opening of the
Parliament of Northern Ireland by the Lord Lieutenant, Viscount Allen, in
City Hall in Belfast with the 40 Unionist members in attendance - the 6
Nationalists and 6 Sinn Féin members refuse to attend but the Nationalists
later take their seats. (This is somewhat ironic as it meant that
Ireland’s first Catholic Lord Lieutenant was addressing an all-unionist – and
probably all-Protestant - body.) James Craig elected Prime
Minister. Senate elected with 24 Unionist members. Later
announced that the British king, George V, would formally open the parliament
on 22nd June. |
Curran J M (1980),
pg 53; Macardle (1999), pg 454; Phoenix (1994), pg 132; Parkinson (2004), pg
129 |
|
Jun-07 |
|
The Irish Bulletin reports the shooting
dead by Crown Forces of John Murphy in Ballinalee, Co. Longford. He was killed on the 26th May
and his wife said that the six men who killed him had English accents and
were probably Auxiliaries from the nearly Ballinalee Barracks. However, Dublin Castle claims that he was
killed by the IRA. (He was a brother-in-law
of IRA leader, Sean Connolly, who was killed at Selton Hill – see March 11th.) |
Coleman (2003), pg
133; Lawlor (2011), pg 164 |
|
Jun-07 |
|
Crown Forces enter
the Ryan home in Knockfune in Co. Tipperary.
They take the two Ryan brothers – James and Patrick – out into yard
and shoot them. Patrick dies but James
survives. The Ryan home is then burnt
down. |
Leeson (2012), pg
187 |
|
Jun-07 |
|
D. Crowley from
Dunmanway, Co. Cork dies. |
O’Farrell (1997),
pg 105 |
|
Jun-08 |
|
A patrol of Special
Constables engaged a group of IRA men in the townland of Corrogs just outside
Newry, Co. Down resulting in the wounding of one Special Constable.
Reinforcements were sent and they were attacked when entering a cottage -
this resulted in the death of one Special Constable (S/Constable George
Lyness) and two IRA men. The above is Abbott’s version of events.
Macardle gives a
completely different version saying that the Specials entered a house in
Corrogs and kill two men Stephen (or James) Magee and his brother Owen.
They also severely beat their father. Macardle includes a sworn
statement from the bothers’ sister as Appendix 14. Lawlor’s version is practically the same as
Macardle’s. |
Abbott (2000), pg
254; Macardle (1999), pg 455 and Appendix 14; O’Farrell (1997), pg 113;
Lawlor (2011), pgs 175-176; Harnden (2000), pg 132 |
|
Jun-08 |
|
The ASU of the 4th
Battalion, Kerry No. 2 Brigade fire at a train carrying British troops at
Ballybrack station near Farranfore killing one British soldier. |
Horgan (2018), pg
252 |
|
Jun-08 |
|
D. Buckley from
Macroom, Co. Cork dies |
O’Farrell (1997),
pg 103 |
|
Jun-09 |
|
RIC Constable Denis
O'Leary was cycling to his home in the village of Carrigbeg,
Co. Waterford from his station in Carrick-on-Suir when he was shot dead as he reached the
village by IRA men from the Tipperary No. 3 Brigade. |
Abbott (2000), pg
254; McCarthy (2015), pg 85 |
|
Jun-09 |
|
Colonel Comdt
Lambert, who was traveling along with his wife, Colonel Challoner and his
wife, when their car is ambushed at Moydrum, near Glasson, Athlone resulting
in his death. (O’Callaghan says 17th
June.) This results in a
major reprisal on the village of Knockcroghery, across the Shannon. Many houses are burnt including that of the
parish priest. |
O’Farrell (1997),
pgs 53-54; O’Callaghan (2012), pg 186-187 |
|
Jun-09 |
|
Special Constable
David Torrens is accidentally shot dead in Castlerock
Barracks in Co. Londonderry. |
Abbott (2019), pg
413 |
|
Jun-10 to 15 |
|
From 10th
to 15th June, riots in Belfast in which 150 Catholic families
driven from their home. Six Catholic men killed by Specials and another 11
killed during the riots. Phoenix says that 14 people killed in June and
76 wounded. McDermott says that 14 people were killed in Belfast during
June – 10 of whom were Catholics with 5 of the latter killed in reprisals by
the Crown forces. (This is roughly in line with what Parkinson gives.) |
Macardle (1999), pg 455; Phoenix (1994), pg 136; McDermott (2001), pg 91 |
|
Jun-10 |
|
An RIC patrol is
attacked at the corner of Falls Rd. and Cupar St., Belfast resulting in the
death of one policeman (Constable James Glover) and the wounding of two
others. Phoenix, who gives the date as June 11th, says that
the shooting of these three RIC men gave rise to a violent backlash against
the Catholic community. This included the killing of three young
Catholic men after they were dragged from their beds. Parkinson, who says the
10th June, states that the attack was carried out by a six IRA men
led by Seamus Woods. He also says that there was indiscriminate firing
by Auxiliaries in the Falls Rd. area that night but he does not report any
fatalities. McDermott also says there were shots discharged in Cupar St on
the night of the shooting but no reprisals. He also claims that the IRA
targeted Glover as he was thought to be a member of the Nixon-Harrison gang. |
Abbott (2000), pgs
254-255; Phoenix (1994), pg 136; Parkinson (2004), pg 137; McDermott (2001),
pgs 86-87; |
|
Jun-10 |
|
When holding up a
train near Meelick, IRA men from the East Clare Brigade are surprised by a
party of British Royal Scots troops travelling on the train and, in the
ensuing gun battle, Chris McGrath is killed after being captured and
Michael (or Patrick) Gleeson is mortally wounded. Brennan also claims
that two British soldiers are killed in this period. |
O’Farrell (1997),
pg 38; Brennan (1980), pgs 103-104; Ó Ruairc (2009), pgs 247-249 |
|
Jun-10 |
|
M. Donovan from
Bandon, Co. Cork dies as does P. Morris from Co. Tyrone. |
O’Farrell (1997), pg 106 &
114 |
|
Jun-10 |
|
Two Auxiliaries in
mufti were in Butler’s public house in the Rower in Co. Kilkenny. They were
spotted by men from the local company of the IRA and were followed when they
left the pub. The two Auxiliaries made
a run for it and a gun fight ensued in which Cadet Leonard James French (an
ex-RAF pilot) was fatally wounded.
Local IRA company led by Captain James Mackey. Butler’s public house was burnt down by the
Auxiliaries and the owner arrested and badly treated. (Abbott says that Cadet French was reported
missing.) |
Walsh (2018), pgs
90-91; Abbott (2000), pg 312; Abbott (2019), pg 399 |
|
Jun-10 |
|
Patrick McAteer,
who had been wounded at Trusk Lake (See June 2nd) had been kept in
a dugout on a remote mountain side several miles from Ballybofey, Co. Donegal. On the 10th, he was visited by
three Volunteers - Henry McGowan, John Smith and Dan Deery. However, they were surrounded by a strong
force of RIC and military and all four were captured. |
Lawlor (2011), pg
172; Ó Duibhir (2009), pg 282 |
|
Jun-11 |
|
General Jan Smuts,
South African Premier, arrives in London for a meeting of colonial prime
ministers and he immediately starts pressurising Llyod George to publicly
offer Dominion Status to Ireland. (The Dáil government had sent
Col Maurice Moore to South Africa in April & May to enlist Smuts
support.) |
Hopkinson (2002),
pg 195 |
|
Jun-11 |
|
During rioting in
the north of Belfast, a bomb is thrown into the mainly Catholic Dock St.
killing Terence McGinley and injuring 20 others. |
Parkinson (2004),
pg 138 |
|
Jun-11 |
|
Members of the 6th
Battalion, Kerry North Brigade IRA kidnap James Kane at Shanacool
Bridge. His body is found four days later. The IRA believe he
gave information leading to the arrest of eight men for the killing of DI
Tobias O'Sullivan on the 20th January in Listowel. They say
they found evidence of Kane's informing on RIC Divisional Commander Holmes
when they captured him after the ambush at Toureengarriv on the 28th
January. |
Abbott (2000), pg
185-186 |
|
Jun-11 |
|
The Tuam Herald reports that Patrick
O’Loughlin, a railway worker from Loughrea, Co. Galway was dragged from his
bed by members of the Crown Forces and brutally assaulted and told that he
was sentenced to death. He was pistol
whipped, burned with hot coals, glass smashed in his face and disinfectant
poured on his body. |
McNamara (2018), pg
142 |
|
Jun-12 |
|
In the early hours
of 12th June, a group of armed IRA men enter the house of the Rev.
John Finlay at Breckley (or Bracken or Brackley) House near Bawnboy (or
Bawnmore), Co. Cavan. Rev. Finlay was
an 80-year old retired Church of Ireland clergyman. The IRA remove Mrs Finlay and the servants
to a nearby house and proceed to burn down the house (as they thought that it
was going to be used by the RIC as a barracks). When Mrs Finlay returns in the morning, she
finds the body of her husband lying on the lawn. It would seem that the killing of Rev.
Finlay was either an accident or an act of ill-discipline. |
Lawlor (2011), pg
169; O’Farrell (1997), pg 33; Carolan (2019), pg 29 |
|
Jun-12 |
|
A number of
policemen were on their way to the church in Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath when
they were attacked resulting in the death of H/Constable James McElhill. |
Abbott (2000), pg
255; Abbott (2019), pg 325 |
|
Jun-12 |
|
There was
widespread rioting in Belfast. In the early hours of the 12th
June, armed men in police uniforms and using motor transport, visit several
Catholic houses in Belfast and ask for people by name. The people asked
for are home in three occasions. In all three cases, the men –
Alexander McBride (30), Malachy Halfpenny and William Kerr (26) – are
arrested, taken away and their dead bodies are found later. None of the
three are IRA men – McBride was a member of Sinn Féin. Mrs McBride alleged
that DI Nixon was the leader of the gang that took her husband away. Joe
Devlin tried to raise the matter in the House of Commons but his request for
an adjournment debate is defeated by 192-64. Afterwards, he has to be
physically removed from the House. William Kerr’s
sister, Alice Kerr, was in the house when he brother was arrested. She testified to the Military Court of
Inquiry that her brother was taken away by USC constables led by an
Auxiliary. She later identified the
Auxiliary. |
Parkinson (2004),
pgs 138-139; O’Farrell (1997), pg 112; McDermott (2001), pgs 88-89 &
91-92; Leeson (2012), pgs 187-188 |
|
Jun-12 |
|
S/Constable Thomas
Sturdy is shot dead as he sits in an armoured lorry at the corner of Dock St.
and North Thomas St. in Belfast. He is the first Special Constable to
be killed in Belfast. Another victim of sniping is Thomas Mallon (51)
who is killed when a bullet comes through a window in his house in North
Thomas St. McDermott also says that a 19-year-old Protestant called Hugh
Jenkins was shot dead by someone from the Catholic side. In what is presumed
to be retaliation for S/Constable Sturdy’s killing, a group of men wearing
Special Constable uniforms entered the home of Patrick Mulligan (24) in Dock
St and shoot him dead. A short time later, a similarly attired group
entered the house in New Dock St. of another Catholic, Joseph Miller (25),
dragged him from his bed and shot him in the street. |
Abbott (2000), pg
255; Parkinson (2004), pg 139; McDermott (2001), pgs 89- |
|
Jun-12 |
|
Two RIC men
(Constable Michael Brannan and Constable John Smith) are attacked in
Rainsfort St., Dublin resulting in the death of both men. Constable
Brannan was from Durham in England and Constable Smith was from Middlesex in England.
Both had less than one month’s service with the RIC. |
Abbott (2000), pg
256; Abbott (2019), pgs 325-326 |
|
Jun-12 |
|
Dan Breen marries
Brighid Malone of Grantham St, Dublin in Glenagat, Co. Tipperary (between
Cashel and Clonmel) with Sean Hogan as best man and Aine Malone as
bridesmaid. |
Breen (1989), pgs
162-165 |
|
Jun-13 |
|
Smuts meets King
George V and suggests peace appeal when opening Northern Ireland parliament. |
Curran J M (1980),
pg 56 |
|
Jun-13 |
|
Large sweep of area
of Clydagh mountains (near Ballyvourney) by British Army. Area includes
Cork No.1 and Cork No. 3 Brigade Columns, First Southern Division HQ and HQs
of Cork No.1 and Cork No. 3 Brigades but IRA do not engage. Three
unarmed IRA men shot dead. |
O’Donoghue (1986),
pg 171 |
|
Jun-13 |
|
John Cosgrave from
Eshwary, Camlough, Co. Armagh dies. He
had been taken from his home by a group of armed men and shot dead. Apparently, he was killed by the Specials. |
O’Farrell (1997), pg 105; Lawlor (2011), pg 168 |
|
Jun-13 |
|
An ex-soldier,
Michael Power, was shot dead by the IRA near Nurney, Co. Kildare for
allegedly giving information to the British on IRA men who had accused him of
stealing. |
Durney (2013), pgs
199-202 |
|
Jun-13 |
|
A Protestant,
Joseph Blackburn (39), is hit by gunfire coming from North Queen St., Belfast
and he dies 10 days later. |
Parkinson (2004),
pg 140 |
|
Jun-14 |
|
Smuts drafts speech for the King to give at the opening of the Belfast
parliament and sends it to Llyod George with harsh criticism of British
policy in Ireland. |
Curran J M (1980),
pg 56 |
|
Jun-14 |
|
Sean MacEoin (O/C
Longford Brigade IRA) charged before a court martial in Dublin with the
murder of RIC DI McGrath on the 7th Jan 1921. Despite
evidence from Auxiliaries on his good treatment of wounded prisoners after
the Clonfin ambush (2nd February 1921) and a plea that he be
spared from Mrs McGrath (the wife of the dead RIC man) and her three sons, he
was sentenced to be hanged. He was lodged in Mountjoy jail. Subsequently, the Church of Ireland rector
of Ballinalee, Archdeacon Johnston and James Mackay Wilson (cousin of Sir
Henry Wilson) pleaded for clemency on his behalf. He is saved from the gallows by the Truce. |
Hayes et al in The
Kerryman (1955), pg 215; Coleman (2003), pg 157; Abbott (2000), pg 181 |
|
Jun-14 |
|
The IRA shoot dead
Philip Dunne at his home at Grangehiggin, Allen, Co Kildare. His mother is
also injured. |
Durney (2013), pg
203 |
|
Jun-14 |
|
Special Constables,
removing the body of a colleague from the Royal Hospital, Belfast comes under
fire, they fire back and in the crossfire a teenager, Kathleen Collins, is
shot dead at her front door in Cupar St. A young Protestant, William
Frazer (12), is shot by a sniper operating from the Falls. A Catholic
ex-soldier, Hugh McAree, is also fatally wounded when he goes to the aid of
the boy. |
Parkinson (2004),
pg 140; McDermott (2001), pg 90 |
|
Jun-15 |
|
Neville Macready
(GOC British Army in Ireland) presents to the British Cabinet's Irish
Situation Committee with a draft proclamation of martial law. It was
draconian. He stressed that the British Government would have to be
prepared for many shootings, perhaps a hundred a week. Macready also
made no concealment of his own belief (shared by John Anderson, Under
Secretary) that coercion would not work. |
Townshend (1975),
pgs 189-190 |
|
Jun-15 |
|
M.McGreal from
Craughwell, Co. Galway dies as does C. McCarthy, Coore, Milltown Milbay, Co.
Clare. |
O’Farrell (1997),
pg 108 & 112 |
|
Jun-15 |
|
A sweep made by the
Essex Regiment in the Ardfield area on the west of Clonakilty Bay, Co
Cork. A number of IRA men in the area including Jim 'Spud' Murphy and
Jim Lane manage to escape. |
Deasy (1993), pg
298-299 |
|
Jun-16 |
|
US Customs agents
discover 495 Thompson sub-machine guns and ammunition on Pier Two, Hoboken,
New Jersey which were destined for Ireland. |
Hopkinson (2002),
pg 78; Townshend (2014), pg 234 |
|
Jun-16 |
|
Martin Comyn, K.C.,
had tried to obtain a Writ of Prohibition halting the holding of Military
Courts in Ireland on the grounds that they were illegal tribunals. He
applied on behalf of two IRA men sentenced to death (Clifford and O’Sullivan
of Mitchelstown). He was refused in Ireland on the basis that the
existed a state of war. So starting on this day, his appeal was heard
by the House of Lords. He pleaded his case during the second week of
July. The Military Authorities suspended executions. (King George
also requested that executions be suspended.) |
O'Farrell P (1997),
pg 19; Macardle (1999), pg 465 |
|
Jun-16 |
|
Ambush of four
lorries containing 25 Auxiliaries by 130/140 men from the Cork No. 2 Brigade
under Paddy O'Brien near Rathcoole
(between Millstreet and Banteer). More Detail |
Lynch in The
Kerryman (1955), pgs 228-238; O’Donoghue (1986), pg 168; Abbott (2000), pgs
256-257 & Hopkinson (2002), pg 113; Abbott (2019), pgs 326-327; Townshend
(2014), pg 294 |
|
Jun-16 |
|
RIC Constable
Harold (Sammy) Round goes missing from his barracks in Frenchpark, Co.
Roscommon. He was captured by the local IRA, court-martialled and sentenced
to death. He was drowned in the River Suck at Dumammon. Constable Round was
from Lancashire in England and Had almost nine months’ service in the RIC. |
Abbott (2000), pg
313; O’Callaghan (2012), pg 82-83; Abbott (2019), pgs 400-401; Townshend
92014), pg 265 |
|
Jun-16 |
|
RIC District
Inspector Cyril Robert Mason accidentally shoots himself outside Wexford Barracks
and dies from his wounds. |
Abbott (2019), pg 409 |
|
Jun-17 |
|
RIC Constable
William Campbell is shot dead outside Dundalk, Co. Louth. That night
three brothers (Patrick, John and Bernard Watters), who lived in the The Windmill Bar (at the junction of Quay St and Seatown
in Dundalk) were taken from their beds and two were shot dead (Patrick &
John). Bernard managed to escape. The Watters brothers were
members of the IRA. (Lawlor says the
two Watters brothers were shot first and Constable Campbell later but Gavin
& O’Donnell and Hall say that Constable Campbell was killed first.) Constable
Campbell was from Dumbarton in Scotland and had six months’ service in the
RIC. |
Abbott (2000), pg
257; Gavin and O’Donnell (1999), pg 29; Lawlor (2011), pgs 176-177; Hall
(2019), pg ? |
|
Jun-17 |
|
The IRA burn
Castletown Mount in Co. Louth on the 17th. On the 18th, Ravensdale Park was
burned to the ground along with Ravensdale court house. |
Hall (2019), pg 82 |
|
Jun-17 |
|
Two IRA men, John
Vaughan and Ned Shannon, are shot dead as they try to escape a raid by Crown
Forces on the Vaughan home at Cloonsuck near Castlerea, Co. Roscommon. Shannon was wounded but still alive when he
was shot dead. |
O’Farrell (1997),
pgs 118 & 119; O’Callaghan (2012), pgs 175-179 |
|
Jun-17 |
|
RIC Constable
George Jones drowns while bathing. |
Abbott (2019), pg
407 |
|
Jun-17 |
|
P. Loughran from
Dungannon, Co. Tyrone dies. |
O’Farrell (1997),
pg 111 |
|
Jun-18 |
|
Irish Committee of
British cabinet, chaired by Chamberlain, agrees speech by King at opening of
Northern Ireland parliament. (It has been amended from what Chamberlain
and Balflour called 'gush' written by Smuts to generalities about peace and
reconciliation.) |
Curran J M (1980),
pg 56 |
|
Jun-18 |
|
Anderson writes to
Greenwood "No war can be carried out effectively in the glare of public
criticism"; he also quoted Macready as saying "It is a case on 'all
out or get out' " |
Hopkinson (2002),
pg 85 & 194 |
|
Jun-18 |
|
An extended search
starts in the Rathcoole area, Co. Cork following the ambush on the 16th.
It uses some 1,850 troops but with little effect. |
Townshend (1975),
pgs 187 |
|
Jun-18 |
|
The ASU of the 1st
Kilkenny ASU, under the leadership of Brigade O/C George O’Dwyer, lay an
ambush at Coolbawn, just north of Castlecomer. However, their position is given away by a local
loyalist farm owner, Florence Dreaper, and the ambushers are surrounded by
Crown Forces. In the subsequent gun
battle, two IRA Volunteers (Nicholas Mullins from Thomastown and Seán Hartley
from Glenmore) were killed and another (James Doyle) injured and
captured. The remainder of the ASU
(some 60 men) managed to escape. See
7th July. |
Walsh (2018), pgs
91-94 |
|
Jun-18 |
|
RIC Constable George Stockdale (or Stackdale) dies by drowning in Co.
Clare. |
Abbott (2000), pg
320; Ó Ruairc (2009), pg 331 |
|
Jun-18 |
|
The 9th
Battalion, Kilkenny Brigade IRA ambush a cycle patrol of seven RIC men at
Sinnott’s Cross between Piltown and Mooncin.
One RIC man (Constable Albert Bradford) is killed and another (Sgt Con
Sweatman or Sweetman) is wounded. Constable Bradford
is from Essex in England and had ten months’ service in the RIC. |
Abbott
(2000), pg 257-258; Walsh (2018), pg 95-96; Abbott (2019), pg 327-327 |
|
Jun-18 |
|
A number of
officers of the 3rd Cork Brigade of the IRA (including Liam Deasy,
Tom Barry and Tadgh O'Sullivan) are staying in Walsh's, Maulatrahane (between
Skibereen and Drinagh) when the house is raided by British troops from the
King's Liverpools. They manage to escape but have to leave behind two
trench coats including one that belongs to Tom Barry. The trench coats
are taken away by the Liverpools. Tom Barry writes a letter to Colonel
Hudson, O/C of the Liverpools, demanding the return of the trench coats as
they are not "contraband of war". A few days later, Colonel
Hudson approaches Dick Connolly, editor of the Southern Star, and
tells him that he agrees with Barry and asks Connolly to arrange the return
of the trench coats. |
Deasy (1972), pg
291 |
|
Jun-18 |
|
Around this time,
de Valera, Childers and Robert Brennan had a meeting in Mrs O’Rahilly’s house
in Herbert Park (Road?), where de Valera explained his concept of external
association by his famous method a circle (representing Ireland) touching but
not part of a larger circle (representing the British Commonwealth).
Brennan comments that, at first glance, he did not like it but “I could not
but admire the rare political genius which had brought it into being.”
Brennan also says that he got the impression that Childers was not
enthusiastic about it. |
Brennan (1950), pgs
311-312 |
|
Jun-18 |
|
The Western People reports the finding of
the partly decomposed body of a young man in a bog near Skraheen on the road
between Ballina and Foxford, Co. Mayo.
It turns out to be the body of Michael J Tolan – See April 16th. (The body was exhumed in November 1921 and
an autopsy carried out which gave evidence that he was tortured before being
killed. He was later buried with full military honours) |
Price (2012), pgs
165-166 & 184-185 |
|
Jun-18 |
|
The farmhouse of
George Brown near Carlingford, Co. Louth is destroyed by the IRA because he
is deemed to be too friendly with the Crown forces. He is the only Protestant in the area. Three days later, the general store
belonging to James Cunningham, in the same area, is destroyed by armed
raiders (presumably Crown Forces). A woman dies in this fire but she is never
identified. |
Hall (2019), pg 83 |
|
Jun-18 |
|
RIC Constable
Albert Moore is accidentally shot in Kilnaleck
Barracks in Co. Cavan and later dies from his wounds. |
Abbott (2019), pgs 410 |
|
Jun-19 |
|
A British Army
group escorting the body of Constable Bradford – see June 18th -
was ambushed at Newbridge, Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary resulting in the
death of one soldier (Pte Smith of the First Devons). |
Abbott (2000), pg
257 |
|
Jun-19 |
|
A 65-year old
labourer, Patrick Walsh, is shot dead by Crown Forces near Rathgormac, Co,
Waterford. |
McCarthy (2015), pg
72 |
|
Jun-20 |
|
In letter to Llyod
George, Macready says that he thinks coercion would be a mistake which might
produce an "apparent calm" but not a lasting settlement. Also
he states that drastic action must have public support. Chamberlain,
Winston Churchill (Colonial Secretary) and Lord Birkenhead (Lord Chancellor)
lean towards supporting truce (because Ulster is safeguarded). |
Curran J M (1980),
pg 55 & Hopkinson (2002), pg 194 |
|
Jun-20 |
|
The RC Bishop of
Down and Connor, Dr MacRory, is quoted in the Irish News as saying, in
relation to the imminent opening of the Northern Ireland Parliament by King
George, that the King’s advisors had made “a great mistake in asking the king
to go out of his way to signify special approval of an institution which was
set up in defiance of the determined opposition of more than four-fifths of
the Irish Nation”. |
Parkinson (2004),
pg 131 |
|
Jun-21 |
|
Irish bishops after
meeting in Maynooth issue a statement saying that there would be no peace in
Ireland until the right of the Irish people to choose their own form of
government had been acknowledged. (De Valera had tried to persuade them
to recognise the Irish Government as the legitimate government of Ireland but
they refused to do this.) |
Macardle (1999), pg
465 |
|
Jun-21 |
|
The Workhouses in
Skibbereen and Bandon, Co Cork are burnt to the ground by the IRA as they
think they may be taken over to house British troops. |
Deasy (1973), pgs
292-294 |
|
Jun-21 |
|
A young IRA
Volunteer, William Aylward, is seriously wounded when he removing debris from
an in-filled road trench and a bomb, left by Crown Forces a booby trap,
explodes. |
Walsh (2018), pg 86 |
|
Jun-21 |
|
Patrick Darcy, a
native of Cooraclare, Co Clare who was a teacher in Doonbeg is
court-martialled by the IRA, chaired by Sean Liddy, O/C West Clare
Brigade. He is executed and a label
pinned to his body saying ‘Spies Beware’.
He was executed by Liam Haugh and Tom Marrinan. Darcy had two
brothers in the IRA (one of whom had drowned trying to escape from the RIC –
see January 19th, 1920).
Also, suspicion also fell on an ex-RIC man called Sheehan but he
fingered Darcy and is reprieved. |
Ó Ruairc (2009),
pgs 251-253 |
|
Jun-21 |
|
The Anti-Sinn Féin
Society blows up the property of IRA man Michael Hartney in Limerick which
results in the death of one civilian.
(The Anti-Sinn Féin Society would seem to be mostly a cover name used
by Crown Forces for unofficial reprisals.) |
O’Callaghan (2018), pg 84 |
|
Jun21- |
|
In a speech in the
British House of Lords, Birkenhead says that negotiations with Sinn Féin were
pointless as they would accept nothing less than open independence and a
Republic of Ireland. He went on to say
“I profoundly hope that … wiser councils will prevail, but should we be
forced to the melancholy conclusion that by force and by force alone can
these mischiefs be extirpated, it is a conclusion which, however sorrowfully,
we shall accept, and upon which we shall not hesitate logically and
completely to act”. |
Lesson (2012), pg 65; Townshend (2014), pg 303 |
|
Jun-22 |
|
In contrast to
Birkenhead, King George V of England delivers speech, with an appeal for
peace, in Belfast at formal opening of Parliament of Northern Ireland.
He says, inter alia, “I appeal to all Irishmen to pause, to stretch
out the hand of forbearance and conciliation, to forgive and forget, and to
join in making for the land they love a new era of peace, contentment and
goodwill.” This appeal meets with an enthusiastic response in Britain
and from a lot of the Irish press (especially the Belfast Telegraph).
However, on the 23rd, the Irish News stated that one could
detect “the tainted hand of Llyod George in every sentence”. |
Curran J M (1980),
pg 57; Abbott (2000), pg 274; Macardle (1999), pg 466; Gallagher (1953), pg
299; Phoenix (1994), pg 134; Parkinson (2004), pgs 129-135 |
|
Jun-22 |
|
De Valera arrested in
Blackrock, Co. Dublin but Andy Cope organises his release. Comment |
Curran J M (1980),
pg 58; Macardle (1999), pg 467; Brennan (1950), pgs 313-314; Townshend
(2014), pg 304 |
|
Jun-22 |
|
J. McIntosh from
Portlaoise dies. |
O’Farrell (1997),
pg 113 |
|
Jun-22 |
|
An RIC man
(Constable George Duckham) is reported missing at Bandon, Co. Cork. His
father later gets a letter from Macroom saying that he had been executed by
the IRA the day after he was captured. |
Abbott (2000), pg
312 |
|
Jun-22 |
|
Formal order from
IRA GHQ authorising the burning of houses of Unionists who were actively
anti-Irish in their actions in retaliation for the burning of homes by the
British army. |
Macardle (1999), pg
463 |
|
Jun-22 |
|
The Earl of Bandon,
James Bernard, and his wife are taken hostage by the IRA (under Sean Hales,
O/C Bandon Battalion) at their home, Castle Bernard which is burnt
down. A letter is sent to O/C 6th Division, British Army in
Cork (General Strickland) saying that the Earl is being held hostage and
would be executed if any more IRA prisoners were executed by the
British. No more IRA prisoners are executed in the martial law areas. Dooley says 21st
June |
Deasy (1973), pgs
295-297; Dooley (2017), pg 453 |
|
Jun-23 |
|
Large scale sweep
near Rathcoole, Co Cork. An IRA man (Michael Dineen) from the Kilcorney
Company, Millstreet Battalion is taken from his brother's house at Ivale,
Kilcorney and shot dead by Auxiliaries. Also, a number of IRA men
captured 'by pure chance'. |
Lynch in The
Kerryman (1955), pg 236; Townshend (1975), pgs 187; O’Farrell (1997), pg 28 |
|
Jun-23 |
|
Edward Landers,
from Lismore, Co. Waterford, dies from illness in Ballykinlar Camp. |
McCarthy (2015), pg
78 |
|
Jun-23 |
|
Speaking in the new
Parliament of NI, Craig states “every person inside our particular boundary
may rest assured that there will be nothing meted out to them but the
strictest justice”. |
Parkinson (2004),
pg 135 |
|
Jun-24 |
|
Lloyd George,
Chamberlain, other cabinet members, members of Irish administration &
Smuts meet to discuss a peace offer; which is now possible after the response
to King's appeal for peace. Lloyd George argues that there is moral
value in having made such an invitation. Letter drafted from Lloyd
George inviting De Valera & James Craig to London to "explore to the
utmost the possibility of a settlement" and "with the fervent
desire to end the ruinous conflict". Full text of letter given in
Macardle. No specific terms and no mention of a truce but British Government
knew its terms (including no army or navy for Southern Ireland) and cabinet
authorised Llyod George to informally intimate it to de Valera. See June 25th. |
Curran J M (1980),
pgs 57-58; Townshend (1975), pg 191; Macardle (1999), pg 471-472; Leeson
(2012), pg 65; Townshend (2014), pg 306 |
|
Jun-24 |
|
Two Auxiliaries
(Cadet Leonard Appleford and Cadet George Wames) are shot dead on Grafton St.
near Chatham St by men from the 2nd Battalion, Dublin Brigade,
IRA. This was part of a larger IRA operation. |
Abbott (2000), pg
258; Dalton (1929), pgs 168-172; O’Connor and Connolly (2011), pg 54 |
|
Jun-24 |
|
IRA mine a troop
train carrying the King's escort of the 10th Royal Hussars
back from the opening of the Northern Ireland Parliament at Adavoyle railway
station, near Bessbrook, Co. Armagh. Townshend says four
troopers are killed and 20 injured. Gavin and O’Donnell say that three
soldiers and one railway guard were killed. Parkinson says that four
soldiers and two civilians were killed and that 20 were injured. Lawlor
says that a railway guard (Frank Gallagher from Donegal) and two British Army
soldiers (Sgt Charles Dawson and Trooper Carl H. Harper) were killed and that
Trooper WH Telford died on his way to Dundalk Hospital. Lawlor says a fourth
soldier died but does not name him. Lawlor also says
that, after disembarking quickly, British army fired on two men working in a
nearby field killing one (Patrick McAleer from Flurrybridge – Hall names him
as Patrick McAteer.). 80 horses were
also killed (50 horses and one mule according to Lawlor). The attack
was carried out by Frank Aiken’s 4th Northern Division IRA. |
Townshend (1975),
pg 192; Gavin and O’Donnell (1999), pg 29; Parkinson (2004), pg 136; Lawlor (2011),
pgs 177-184; Hall (2019), pgs 83-84 |
|
Jun-24 |
|
M. Dineen from
Kilcorney, Co. Cork dies. |
O’Farrell (1997), pg 106 |
|
Jun-24 |
|
Two IRA men attempt
to disarm two Black and Tans in Ennis, Co. Clare but the attempt fails and a
fire fight breaks out in which six-year-old Patrick Morrissey is killed. The two IRA men – Frank Keane and Patrick
O’Keefe – are captured. |
Ó Ruairc (2009), pg
253 |
|
Jun-25 |
|
The body of Arthur
Treanor from Dunmadigan outside Emyvale in Co. Monaghan is found with a note
attached to it saying that he was an informer. He was the president of the local branch of
the AOH and a rural district councillor. |
Dooley (2017a), pg
89 |
|
Jun-25 |
|
Llyod George letter
delivered to de Valera and published.
See June 28th. |
Curran J M (1980),
pg 59; Macardle (1999), pg 467 |
|
Jun-25 |
|
The IRA North Mayo
flying column, waiting in ambush at Ballycastle, Co Mayo, is itself attacked
on three sides resulting in the death of one IRA volunteer, Tom Nealon.
Another is wounded and five others captured, including O/C North Mayo
Brigade, Eamon Gannon. These arrests throw
the North Mayo Brigade into disarray so GHQ appoint Micheál Ó Cléirigh as
Brigade Adjutant to reorganise the brigade. |
Hopkinson (2002),
pg 133; Price (2012), pgs
166-167 & 185 |
|
Jun-26 |
|
One Auxiliary (Cadet
William Hunt) shot dead and one wounded (Cadet White) in the Mayfair Hotel,
30 Lr. Baggot St., Dublin by IRA man Paddy O'Connor and three colleagues.
Hunt was having tea with his wife. |
Abbott (2000), pg
259; Hopkinson (2002), pg 102; O’Connor and Connolly (2011), pgs 54-55 |
|
Jun-26 |
|
RIC Constables Alex
McDonald goes missing in Dundalk, Co. Louth and, it is assumed, that he was
abducted and shot by the IRA. His body
is never found. |
Hall (2019), pg
83; Abbott (2000), pg 313; Abbott
(2019), pg 400 |
|
Jun-27 |
|
RIC Constable
Patrick Clarke is shot and killed at Cleerykeel Cross, near Cliffoney, Co.
Sligo. It would appear that this was
an unauthorised killing by the local IRA as Constable Clarke was “an older
well-liked Mayoman”. |
Abbott (2000), pg
259; Farry (2012), pg 71 |
|
Jun-27 |
|
Two RIC men are
returning from church in Kildorrery, Co. Cork when they are attacked
resulting in the death of one (Constable Thomas Shanley). Abbott says 26th June in the
2009 edition of his book. |
Abbott (2000), pg
259; Abbott (2019), pg 330 |
|
Jun-27 |
|
An RIC patrol is
ambushed near Milltown, Co. Galway resulting in the death of two policemen
(Sgt James Murren and Constable Edgar Day). Sgt Murren was to have
retired on pension a week before but due to some delay, his papers had not come
through. The ambush was carried out by the North Galway Flying Column. (Henry says 27th July but this
is unlikely to be the case.) Constable Day was from
Nottingham in England and had five months’ service in the RIC. Sgt Murren was from Sligo. |
Abbott (2000), pg
260; McNamara (2018), pgs 131; Henry (2012), pg 205; Abbott (2019), pg 330; Lesson (2012), pg 64 |
|
Jun-27 |
|
W. Connolly from
Upperchurch, Co. Tipperary dies. |
O’Farrell (1997), pg 104 |
|
Jun-28 |
|
Formal opening of
the Parliament of Southern Ireland attended only by the 4 Trinity unionists
(out of 128 seats) and the 15 (out of 64) senators nominated by the
viceroy. It met for 15 minutes adjourned sine die. |
Curran J M (1980),
pg 52 |
|
Jun-28 |
|
O’Callagahan says
patrol of 12 soldiers from the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry is
ambushed by the IRA near Fortine (or Fortane) Crossroads, Tulla, Co.
Clare. Their leader, Lieutenant
Richard Crawford Warren is shot in the stomach and later dies of his wounds. Ó Ruairc says that
the ambush took place on the 12th June at Four Roads, a mile
outside Tulla and that the British army patrol was a “large force of
soldiers”. Along with Lieutenant
Warren, he says that Lance Corporal M. Hudson was also killed in the ambush. |
O’Callaghan (2017),
pg 551; Ó Ruairc (2009), pgs 242-243 |
|
Jun-28 |
|
De Valera replies
to Llyod George’s letter of the 24th stating that Sinn Féin wants
peace but this could not be while British deny Ireland's unity. He goes
on to say that before replying more fully he seeking a conference with
“certain representatives of the political minority in this country”. De
Valera invites James Craig, the Earl of Midleton, Mauruce Dockrell, Robert H.
Woods and Andrew Jameson to Dublin. Craig refuses but the others accept
and they meet on the 4th July.
Also see 1st July. |
Curran J M (1980),
pg 59 |
|
Jun-28 |
|
Charlie Daly from 2nd
Battalion, Cork No. 1 Brigade IRA is killed. (O’Farrell says June 29th.) |
O'Kelly in The
Kerryman (1955), pg 26; O’Farrell (1997), pg 105 |
|
Jun-28 |
|
RIC Constable Owen
Hoey was shot and killed on St James Walk, near Grand Canal Harbour, in
Dublin. |
Abbott (2000), pg
260; Abbott (2019), pg 331 |
|
Jun-28 |
|
Castle
Administration orders British forces to suspend
raids on places frequently by persons of political importance in Sinn
Féin. Around this time a number of prominent Sinn Féiners released from
prison (including Arthur Griffith, Robert Barton, Eoin MacNeill, Eamonn
Duggan and Michael Staines) but 34 members of Dáil Eireann remain in
prison. De Valera makes the Mansion House his HQ. |
Townshend (1975),
pgs 196; Macardle (1999), pg 473 |
|
Jun-29 |
|
The IRA burn down
the Allin Institute in Bandon, Co Cork. |
Deasy (1973), pg
294 |
|
Jun-29 |
|
In an operation
similar to the rescue of Frank Carty (26th June 1920), Liam
Pilkington leads a party of IRA men into Sligo goal and frees Charles Gildea,
Tom Deignan and Frank O’Beirne. They
had assistance from prison warder. |
Farry
(2012), pgs 70-71 |
|
Jun-29 |
|
A police patrol was
ambushed at Kilraine or Kilrean on the Glenties to Ardara road in Co. Donegal
resulting in the death of one RIC man (Constable Thomas Devine). There were three lorries in the patrol and
the ambushers had to retreat section-by-section as they were being hotly
purused until they reached the foothills of the Blue Stack mountains. Constable
Devine was from Lancashire in England and had eight months’ service in the
RIC. |
Abbott (2000), pg
260; Ó Duibhir (2009), pgs 269-270; Abbott (2019), pg 331 |
|
Jun-29 |
|
The body of an
ex-RIC man (Thomas Hannon) was found in a bog at
Ballyduff, Co. Offally. He had been shot in the head. |
Abbott (2000), pg
260-261; Abbott (2019), pgs 331-332 |
|
Jun-29 |
|
Major round-up by
British forces in south-west Mayo with troops being landed in from British
Navy ships in Killary Harbour. |
McDonnell in The
Kerryman (1955), pg 210 |
|
Jun-29 |
|
An IRA raiding
party of 12 men, remove 17 boxes of gun-cotton and three boxes of detonators
and charges from Fasnet Rock Lighthouse. |
Deasy (1973), pgs
308-311 |
|
Jun-29 |
|
After an attack on
an RIC Crossley tender at Craighalough, near Newmarket-on-Fergus
in Co. Clare, the IRA column is attacked by another lorry load of RIC men who
were trying to cut off the IRA men.
During exchanges, Volunteer Tom Healy died from a heart attack. |
Ó Ruairc (2009), pg
254 |
|
Jun-29 |
|
J. Grogan from
Feakle, Co. Clare dies after being shot by British army; as does W. Hogan
from Dillon’s Cross, Cork and Patrick McCarthy from Killarney, Co. Kerry.
McCarthy was a member of the 4th Battalion, Kerry No. 2 Brigade
and was killed accidently. |
O’Farrell (1997), pg 105 &
108 & 109 & 112; Ó Ruairc (2009), pg 328;
Horgan (2018), pgs 138-139 |
|
Jun-30 |
|
An RIC man (Constable Joseph Burke) was shot dead as he stood at the
door of the police barracks in Templemore, Co. Tipperary. |
Abbott (2000), pg
261 |
|
Jun-30 |
|
The Tyrone Courier (a unionist supporting
paper) reports that Special Constables raided the home of a constitutional
nationalist, John Monaghan of Clogher, Co. Tyrone. They put a rifle in his mouth before
beating him and burning his house. The
IRA had earlier raided his home for arms but caused no harm. |
McCluskey (2014),
pg 101 |
|
Jun-30 |
|
Attack by IRA on
Auxiliary patrol in Dolphin’s Barn in Dublin. |
O’Connor and
Connolly (2011), pg 57 |
|
Jun-30 |
|
A party of IRA men
raid the farm of the Pearson family at Coolacrease, Co. Offally. They
kill two members of the family - Richard and Abraham - and burn the
farmhouse. The family were members of the Cooneyites –a small
Protestant sect. These killings became very controversial. More
Detail |
Stanley (2005);
Heaney et al (2008) |
|
Jun-30 |
|
Two brothers –
Michael and Thomas McEneaney - who are
members of the IRA are killed when, during an ambush on a train at Carnagh railway station in Co. Monaghan, they are
surprised by a party of Auxiliaries. |
Dooley (2017a), pg
87 |
|
Jun -30 |
|
Special Constable Hugh
Gabbie was in civilian clothes when attacked on John Mitchel Place in Newry -
he later died from his wounds. |
Abbott (2000), pg
261; Lawlor (2011), pgs 184-185 |
|
Jun-30 |
|
Bill Freaney killed
in action near Athenry, Co. Galway |
Henry (2012), pg
250 |
|
Jun-30 |
|
Former British Army
Major Robert Stevenson, who served as District Commander of the USC in
Dungannon, Co. Tyrone up to this time reveals that the regulation which
required the RIC to accompany all USC patrols and raids was being ignored. He goes on to say
that, in his view, the B Special was “an ordinary Protestant countryman and
in many cases corner boys” who was being “supplied with arms and clothing by
his Government and ‘authorised’ to get ‘on top’, as it were, of this R[oman] C[atholic] neighbours
[who] they have always been taught to hate”. |
McCluskey (2014),
pg 100 |
|
Jun-30 |
|
An elderly farmer,
Owen McCarron, is shot dead by a British Army patrol as he bringing his
cattle along a road near Cockhill Chapel outside Buncrana, Co. Donegal. The army said that he refused to stop when
called upon but Mr McCarron was hard of hearing so probably did not hear the
call. |
Lawlor (2011), pg
184; Ó Duibhir (2009), pg 293 |
|
Jun-30 |
|
IRA man, Frank
Morgan and three O’Connor brothers (John, Peter and Thomas – who may or may
not have been in the IRA) are arrested in Grenagh House on the shores on
Lough Leane near Killarney, Co. Kerry by the British army. Loaded guns and bandoliers with bullets are
found in the house. The four men are
taken to Victoria Barracks in Cork when they are tried and on the 7th
July, Morgan and John and Peter O’Connor are sentenced to be shot despite
Morgan saying that the O’Connor brothers had nothing to do with the guns and
ammunition. (Grenagh House is the home of the O’Connor brothers.) They are
saved from the firing squad by the onset of the Truce. |
Horgan
(2018), pgs 58-64 |
|
Jun-30? |
|
Ballybay House, Co.
Monaghan, the residence of J H E Leslie, is burnt by the IRA. |
Dooley (2017a), pg
114 |
|
June |
|
Tom Healy (an RIC
man working for the IRA) died of a heart attack while being involved in an
attack on the Black and Tans near Newmarket-on-Fergus.
|
Brennan (1980), pgs
103-104; |
|
June |
|
Effects of the
expulsion of workers in Belfast still on-going. Also, families (mainly
Catholics) still being intimidated from their homes – 150 in June. Bishop
MacRory says in June that ‘almost 50,000 Belfast Catholics are on the verge
of starvation’. An August RIC reports that “Poverty is still rife in the
nationalist quarters (of Belfast)”. £150,000 was raised in the
south for the alleviation of distress and substantial sums came from the
American White Cross. |
Phoenix (1994), pgs
137-138; Parkinson (2004), pg 140; McDermott (2001), pg 91 |
|
June? |
|
Three British
officers are captured near Rosgreen, Tipperary and shot dead. |
O’Malley (1990), pgs 327-332 |
|
June |
|
E. Donnelly from
Croom, Co. Limerick dies |
O’Farrell (1997), pg 106 |
|
June |
|
L. Hickey from
Rathmore, Co. Kerry dies. |
O’Farrell (1997), pg 109 |