Throughout the War of Independence is said to have begun on the 21st of January 1919 just 15 RIC and DMP officers would be killed by the IRA over the next year. IRA General Headquarters in Dublin remained silent, refusing to sanction attacks and privately denouncing the likes of Tipperary’s Big Four for their escapades. The suppression of Sinn Féin and Dáil Éireann, as well as the arrival of British ex-servicemen to reinforce the RIC, changed matters in early 1920. From January attacks on barracks were sanctioned with the aim of seizing weapons and destroying the buildings, marking a new phase in the War of Independence and its true beginning according to the likes of Richard Mulcahy. This phase of barrack attacks would be short lived however, as soon the Black and Tans would help reinforce the remaining ones to a level the IRA could not attack, prompting another change in tactics.
References:
T. Ryle Dwyer - “The Squad”
Tim Pat Coogan - “Michael Collins”
Peter Hart - “The IRA at War 1916 - 1923”
Ireland’s Wars: The Carrigtwohill Barracks Attack - neverfeltbetter.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/irelands-wars-the-carrigtwohill-barracks-attack/
Capture of Carrigtwohill RIC Barracks - homepage.eircom.net/~corkcounty/carrigtwohill.html
Cobh prepares to rise - cobh1916.wordpress.com/the-history/part-1-cobh-prepares-to-rise/
Attacks on police barracks extend to Ulster - www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/articles/attacks-on-police-barracks-extend-to-ulster
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Main Sources:
Military Archives - www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie
Century Ireland - www.rte.ie/centuryireland
Diarmuid Lynch, Irish Revolutionary - diarmuidlynch.weebly.com/
Atlas of the Irish Revolution
Maurice Walsh - “Bitter Freedom”
Charles Townshend - "The Republic"
Michael Hopkinson - ”The Irish War of Independence”
Diarmuid Ferriter - “A Nation and not a Rabble”
Richard Abbot - “Police Casualties in Ireland 1919 - 1922”
Photos:
Military Archives
NLI Flickr account
Wiki Commons
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