Bloody Sunday 1920: Who were Michael Collins’s hit team ‘The Squad’?
12 regular assassins were assisted by part-timers for ‘jobs’ including Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle or who died later of wounds received
Lieut-Colonel Hugh Montgomery was the highest ranked British agent to die, while Tipperary captain Michael Hogan was also captain of an IRA company
Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle
32 people were killed on Bloody Sunday, or died later of wounds received that day
Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle or who died later of their wounds
Lieut-Colonel Hugh Montgomery was the highest ranked British agent to die, while Tipperary captain Michael Hogan was also captain of an IRA company
Diarmaid Ferriter: Bloody Sunday 1920 changed British attitudes to Ireland
Backlash left IRA reeling and enhanced British intelligence. Then talk turned to truce
GAA to honour 14 victims of Bloody Sunday on centenary
Ceremony to take place on Saturday in a largely empty Croke Park due to Covid-19
Lynch Law – Frank McNally on the ‘mysterious’ death of a Limerick republican, 100 years ago this week
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1920: The timeline
The year saw the War of Independence begins in earnest with an escalation of murder and violence by the British and IRA
Bloody Sunday, 1920: ‘By their destruction the air is made sweeter’
14 British officers were shot dead in Michael Collins’s bid to destroy ‘the undesirables’
There’s nothing new about fake news, War of Independence exhibition shows
British attempts at propaganda were undermined by real images
How the British faked ‘battles’ during the War of Independence
A ‘battle’ in Tralee was restaged in Killiney, Dublin, and the photographs and Pathé news film were spread widely
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