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Terence MacSwiney was born into a nationalist, Cork Catholic family. His father emigrated to Australia in 1885 leaving behind eight children with their mother. To help support his family, Terence left school at 15 and found employment as an accountancy clerk. He was an Irish playwright, poet, and politician through out his life. He was also the Lord Mayor of Cork.

During the Irish War of Independence, he was arrested and imprisoned in Brixton Prison in London, where he died after 74 days on hunger strike. His death brought even more international attention to the Irish struggle for independence.

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The Kilmichael Ambush was the ambush planned by the IRA that resulted in the most British deaths. It took place on the 28th of November 1920, just a week after bloody sunday in Shanacashel, Co.Cork. Seventeen auxiliaries were killed.

A whistle was the signal to open fire. Some of the British were killed using rifles and batons in a brutal and bloody encounter

the ambush was organised by tom barry and the IRA they used guerilla warfare and flying collums. after the ambush the men escaped to shanacashel safe houses

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-Irish Sinn Fein politician
-born march 20th 1884, Ballyknockane, Mallow, Co. Cork.
-He was the youngest child of Patrick Curtin and Julia Sheehan.
-He grew up on a farm
-assassinated 1920, between 12.10am and 1.15am on Saturday oh his 36th birthday.
-Educated at Burnfoot National School and then he attended North Monastery co-educational  Secondary.
-he developed a strong interest in Irish culture and was an accomplished violin player.
-He joined the Gaelic League in Blackpool,
Cork in 1901 and by 1902 was its secretary.
-In June 1908 he married Eileen Walsh and they made their home at 40 Thomas Davis St. in Blackpool where he ran a clothing and rainwear factory. They had six children together, the first dying as an infant.

-He was the Lord Mayor of Cork
-He was assassinated in front of his wife and son.
- In the wake of the killing, Mac Curtain's house in Blackpool was ransacked.
-The killing caused widespread public outrage!
-Michael  Collins later ordered his squad to uncover and assassinate the police officers involved in the attack.
-MacCurtain Street in the centre of Cork City is named after him.

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The burning of Cork was a reprisal for the IRA ambush on the same night at Dillons Cross, on the north side of the city. More broadly, it was part of an ugly, intimate war in the tight, steep streets of the city on River Lee

-Cause of the burning of Cork, Irishhistory.com

It began on the Dec 11 , 1920.

57 buildings were completely destroyed by fire, 20 buildings were badly damaged and 12 were wrecked and looted. 2000 people lost their jobs, and £2.5 million worth of damage was done.

Michael Collins ordered the launch of a concentrated series of arson attacks on hundreds of abandoned police barracks with a view to preventing them from being reoccupied.

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On November 21st 1920, an assassination unit known as ‘The Squad’ mounted an operation planned by Michael Collins. They were to take out the backbone of the British Intelligence network in Ireland, specifically a group of officers known as ‘The Cairo Gang’. The shootings took place in and around Dublin’s south inner city and resulted in fourteen deaths, including six members of the IRA and two members of the RIC.

Dublin Tipperary

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Occurred on 19 March 1921
It took place at the rural crossroads of Crossbarry, Co. Cork.
3-6 people were killed.
Tom Barry (leader of the flying column in west cork) found out late and they were surrounded by then. He was the one to help them escape.At dawn on St Patrick’s Day, the column took up ambush positions at Shippool, halfway between Kinsale and Bandon, but the convoy never appeared.

Around 4pm, a scout reported that it left Kinsale but had turned back. When Barry received this report, he stood down the column and moved it to billets in Skeugh, east of Innishannon.

Barry believed that since the column had mobilised, it was important for the men to undertake an operation. When he discussed the situation with his officers the following day, Liam Deasy stated that British lorries had passed through Crossbarry earlier that week and, as the column was close to the village.
Barry’s calculation was that his men, who had only 40 rounds each, could not sustain the all-day fight that they could expect if they retired before the British. He observed, however, that one of the British columns advancing towards Crossbarry was well ahead of the other enemy units. If his men could break through this British force, roughly the same strength as his own, they could break out of the encirclement.