1920 Bloody Sunday
1920 Bloody Sunday
Special Topic Draft
Sean Hawkins
Mrs. Hedderman
“I have proof enough to assure myself of the atrocities which this gang of spies and informers have committed. Perjury and torture are words too easily known to them. If I had a second motive it was more than a feeling such as I would have for a dangerous reptile. By their destruction the very air is made sweeter. That should be the future’s judgement on this particular event. For myself my conscience is clear. There is no crime in detecting in wartime the spy and the informer. They have destroyed without trial. I have paid them back in their own coin.” These were the words Michael Collins wrote on the executions of the Cairo Gang. Bloody Sunday was the end of a long path. It began when Sinn Fein won the 1918 General Election and saw them inaugurate the first ever Dail Eireann in January 1919. On the same day that the Dail met for the first time two Irish volunteers in Soloheadbeg, Co. Tipperary ambushed and murdered two Royal Irish Constabulary men (RIC). This sparked the Irish War of Independence. Throughout the next twelve months both the British and the Irish government battled for control of Ireland. This year we also got to see a slow rise in violence being used witch continued through the early months of 1920.
The volunteers decide to change their name to the Irish Republican Army (IRB). They continued to look for weapons by raiding police barracks and during these raids nineteen Royal Irish Constabulary members were killed. It was pretty obvious to Lloyd George that the IRA were very rebellious and were killing his men therefor he started to begin recruitment to the RIC in the early 1920s which would soon be known as the Black and Tans. The Black and Tans quickly got on the scene in around April and May 1920 and soon got a name for themselves for their brutality and violence. Sometimes they were so violent that their attacks would be published in newspapers across Europe and the US.
Special Topic Draft
Sean Hawkins
Mrs. Hedderman
“I have proof enough to assure myself of the atrocities which this gang of spies and informers have committed. Perjury and torture are words too easily known to them. If I had a second motive it was more than a feeling such as I would have for a dangerous reptile. By their destruction the very air is made sweeter. That should be the future’s judgement on this particular event. For myself my conscience is clear. There is no crime in detecting in wartime the spy and the informer. They have destroyed without trial. I have paid them back in their own coin.” These were the words Michael Collins wrote on the executions of the Cairo Gang. Bloody Sunday was the end of a long path. It began when Sinn Fein won the 1918 General Election and saw them inaugurate the first ever Dail Eireann in January 1919. On the same day that the Dail met for the first time two Irish volunteers in Soloheadbeg, Co. Tipperary ambushed and murdered two Royal Irish Constabulary men (RIC). This sparked the Irish War of Independence. Throughout the next twelve months both the British and the Irish government battled for control of Ireland. This year we also got to see a slow rise in violence being used witch continued through the early months of 1920.
The volunteers decide to change their name to the Irish Republican Army (IRB). They continued to look for weapons by raiding police barracks and during these raids nineteen Royal Irish Constabulary members were killed. It was pretty obvious to Lloyd George that the IRA were very rebellious and were killing his men therefor he started to begin recruitment to the RIC in the early 1920s which would soon be known as the Black and Tans. The Black and Tans quickly got on the scene in around April and May 1920 and soon got a name for themselves for their brutality and violence. Sometimes they were so violent that their attacks would be published in newspapers across Europe and the US.