1920 AD - 1 / January to March

                                                                                                                  "American Association for Recognition of the Irish Republic."                                                                                                                       

1920 The British Imperial Government Act was introduced to "separate," and basically "create" 2 "artificial" Parliaments in Ireland, with one at Stormont in Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province to be composed of the 6 Counties to be "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties that actually made up the Ulster Province from the 32 Counties of Ireland by the British Imperial Government for the "Official" Unionists to continue on with the Ascendancy in Ireland to be known to them as Northern Ireland, which was to have 52 seats by Proportional Representation, and a Senate of 26 members with 24 of these elected by the proposed Northern Ireland MP's themselves in their House of Commons, plus the Mayor of Belfast and the Mayor of Derry. In theory they were to be "prohibited" from making any laws, and those in the "administration" there had to carry out "religious equality" with the Supreme authority of the British United Kingdom Parliament over the the 6 Counties, with 12 MPs elected and 1 from Queens University. The other "artificially divided" Parliament was to be known to them as Southern Ireland, to be composed of the other 26,Counties or the rest of the 32 Counties that actually made up the "whole" of Ireland in the Connacht Province, the Leinster Province and the Munster Province along with the other 3 discarded Counties in the Ulster Province, which were not required by the "Official" Unionists from the actual 9 Counties that made up the whole of the Ulster Province as there were too many Irish Catholics still existing in them to gain overall complete Ascendancy "control." A gerrymandered Council of Ireland was also proposed to be made up of 20 Representatives from the 6 Counties to be "artificially partitioned" from the actual 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, and also 20 from the other 26 Counties, with a President for each "artificial partitioned" bundle of Counties "nominated" by the British Imperial Government's Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, which actually allowed them to "retain their overall control" in Ireland anyway, with an intention to eventually re - create a re - union of the "artificially divided" Country of Ireland. - See also May 3rd this year.

 January: The Irish Bond Drive, set up personally by Eamonn de Valera the Priomh Aire of the 1st Dail Eireann, who was still there in the "United States," was under the control  of the American Association for Recognition of the Irish Republic and it had already raised $5,500.000, with the eventuall total amount that was to be received by this loan to be paid back by the population of Ireland at a rate of 6 % interest when Ireland eventually became the Irish Republic, and out of this total amount $4,000,000 would be utilized in Ireland itself to bring this about.

January 17th: Eamonn de Valera the Priomh Aire of the 1st Dail Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly was granted the freedom of New York, were he was accompanied by the leaders of the Irish - American Associations to a function at the City Hall, and among those present were the long time suipporter of Irish Freedom John Devoy from the Clann na Gael (The American - Irish Republican Association), Judge Cohalan from the Friends for Irish Freedom and Austin Ford.

January 20th: Much to the terror of the British Imperial Government the "elected political" Sinn Fein Party in Ireland came out on "top" once again, "electorally" by also winning the recent "Municipal" democratic elections all over Ireland, as this was another bitter blow to the British Coalition Government's "propaganda" line that the Sinn Fein Party had "no support" at all in Ireland, and among those winning these seats for the Sinn Fein Party were Thomas Mac Curtin who had been elected the Mayor of Cork in Southern Munster to replace the unfortunate deceased Terence Mac Sweeny who had previously suffered and died at the hands of the British Imperial Government., Michael O Callaghan was elected the Mayor of Limerick in the mid - north - west of Munster Province, and Thomas Kelly was elected the Mayor of Waterford in the south - east of Munster Province, even though he also was still "imprisoned" by the British Coalition Government and was also held in a jail in England.

January 22nd: The British Imperial Military Forces from within the Dublin Castle continued on with their "terror" campaign in Ireland, and also "sacked" the town of Thurles in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of Munster, while carrying out further "raids," and even went as far as placing a "curfew" on the City of Dublin itself, and despite the early "warnings" put out by Michael Collins, 58 Irishmen, who the British Imperial Coalition Government believed were connected to the "elected" political Sinn Fein Party, were now also "arrested" and sent to jail, and among these was Robert Barton, and the whole lot of them were once again sent off to England, to be imprisoned there in their "Portland Jail."

January 25th: Michael Collins as the 1st Dail Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly Finance Minister and the Irish National Loan Director was now placed under even greater "stress," as besides he had the other numerous "administration" positions at the same time, as well as the "Adjutant General," the "Director of Organization" and the "Intelligence Director" for the Irish Volunteers / Irish Republican Army / I.R.A..

     Cathal Brugha / Charles Burgess was acting as the "Minister for Defence" besides being the "Chief of Staff" of the I.R.A. / Volunteers, and as Michael Collins was heavily involved as the 1st Dail Eireann "Minister for Finance," the Irish Volunteers / Irish Republican Army were basically allowed to operate "independently" when carrying out their operations, as Michael Collins as the I.R.A. Coordinator together with Richard Mac Kee had also formed groups of 20-30 of the Irish Volunteers / I.R.A into Flying Columns, which they were to use for their hit and run "guerrilla warfare" missions when required against thr British Imperial Military Forces. These were usually special assignments, such as the destruction of all the Dublin Castle's R.I.C. police barracks and also those carried out on the overall "spy" network, set up previously by the British Imperial Government, and because of these important necessary attacks the I.R.A. / Volunteers were to come under the condemnation of the leaders of the Catholic Church. The "reward" on Michael Collins's head was now "increased" by the British Imperial Government to 10,000 pounds, either "dead or alive," but despite this, and although his workload was tremendous, he still continued to either walk or ride freely around on a "bicycle" in the Dublin City area. Finally, due to all of these commitments, he had to "resign" from the positions he held with the I.R.A. / Irish Volunteers to concentrate on the more important "administration" matters concerning the 1st Dail Eireann, and his assistant Diarmuid O Hegarty took over as the Irish Volunteer's / I.R.A. Organizational Director. Geroit O Sullivan took over as their Adjutant General, and Richard / Dick Mac Kee, whose real occupation was as a printer, concentrated on the Irish Volunteer newspaper, An tOglach m,/ The Republic.

January 30th: The British Imperial Government's authorities in the Dublin Castle's R.I.C police, who were always under their overall control and stationed at Thurles in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province were by now made up of "Orangemen" brought down from the north - east of the Ulster Province to serve the British Imperial Coalition Government's agenda, and they not only reacted "violently" there, but also were inclined to go "berserk" there, especially when one of their officers was shot, and they reacted immediately by "ransacking" the town of Thurles again, and "burnt" down two of the Dairy Creameries there.  

January 31st: A "League of Free Nations" debate was held on this day in America, between Sir Horace Plunkett, and Eamonn de Valera the elected Priomh Aire /  / Taoiseach of the 1st Dail Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly, but there was no Irish "Tricolour" to be found amongst all the other flags, so Eamonn de Valera refused to participate any further until this situation was recognized and corrected, so all of the other flags except for the "Stars and Stripes" were removed from the room and St. John Ervine then attacked Eamonn de Valera verbally, and insisted that he "did not" really represent the population of Ireland, and in reply to this Eamonn de Valera was given the opportunity to elaborate to all those present on the actual real support the "elected political " Sinn Fein Party / Irish Republican Party was now receiving in Ireland itself.     

February 6th: An article appeared in the Globe newspaper in America of an interview given by Eamonn de Valera the elected Priohm Aire / First Minister of the 1st Dail Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly,, in which he had inquired why the British Imperial Government had not treated Ireland just as the "U.S.A." had done with "Cuba" under the "Platt Amendment," but unbeknown to Eamonn de Valera in reality in separate clauses in the Platt Amendment, Cuba was actually defined as a U.S.A. "Protectorate" and the article was then taken out of context to suite the agenda of the newspaper, so that it "implied" that this comment was a "withdrawal" by Eamonn de Valera, as the official head of the Irish Republican movement, for the demand that Ireland be set free to decide her own international relations. Eamonn de Valera was now once again in big "trouble" with John Devoy the long btime supporter of unequivocal Irish Freedom and Independence, who was from the Clann na Gael / The Organization, and the editor of their newspaper the Gaelic American, in which he also noted Eamonn de Valera's comments. He had also made remarks about the American involvement in the Irish crisis, plus America's involvement with Cuba, and John Devoy now accused him of making "compromising" statements on Ireland's claim for Irish Independence from the British Imperial Government. John Devoy was of the opinion that these "off the cuff" comments would be hailed in England as an offer of "surrender," to which Eamonn de Valera then issued a further statement clarifying his actual position and had Dr. Patrick Mac Cartan return to Ireland to "explain" his particular point of view to the members of the 1st Dail Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly. Dr. Mac Cartan was an old Republican, and the members of the 1st Dail Eireann had great "respect" for his personal opinion, and Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith stood by Eamonn de Valera as their leader believing him to be in the right on this issue. John Devoy who had been a long time "supporter" of the cause of Irish Freedom was now "no" friend now to the staid attitudes of Eamonn de Valera and he was also not "appeased" by their decision to back him up, as he considered for Eamonn de Valera to quote the "Platt Amendment" outright, was to quote all parts of it.       

February: John Devoy from the Clann na Gael / The Organization in America kept up his condemnation of Eamonn de Valera, who was to be informed that it was really Judge Cohalan who was behind the move now to get him out of America altogether, or to pull him "back into line" and to settle the matter Eamonn de Valera wrote to Judge Cohalan who controlled the particular Irish Independence Association known as the Friends of Irish Freedom, and asked him to explain where he stood on the outstanding issues with John Devoy. The Judge wrote back with a "stinging" letter, informing him that American interests must come "first" in America, and that it was not in Ireland's interest to "upset" the Irish - Americans who had always "supported" Irish Independence both verbally and monetarily, so Harry Boland then tried desperately to reconcile John Devoy and Eamonn de Valera, so that these divisions in the Irish - American ranks in America itself would be re - united.    

     Back in Ireland the "Carrigtwohill Barracks," held by the British Government's Dublin Castle's authorities R.I.C police in Co. Cork in Southern Munster was "captured" in a raid carried out by the Irish Volunteers / Irish Republican Army / I.R.A. once again, to obtain a quantity of arms to bolster their chances of any type of resistance against the Military might of the British ImperialMilitary Forces, and from now on many of the other Dublin Castle's R.I.C. barracks were also attacked and burnt, while their officers who were stationed there in the barracks were "released." The overall support for Independence was increasing and the I.R.A was now continuing to also grow in numbers, as the British Imperial Government continued on with their "terrorizing" campaign on the the general population throughout Ireland under Lord French, the British Imperial Government's appointed British Military Viceroy in Ireland, who had continued to represent them with great "vigour" on the population in Ireland. The situations he was creating was now so bad that the I.R.A. decided to take "him out" of the scene altogether, by "assassinating" him near Phoenix Park, when he was on his way back from his country residence to the British vice - Regal Lodge at Ashtown Cross, but the attempt turned out to be much more "complicated" then the I.R.A. had first thought, and it soon became a tragic scene, as the British Imperial Military Forces there in panic mode instead "killed" Martin Savage, an innocent bystander, and still in a panic, they also "killed" one of their own British Military Officers, Lt. Boast. They also "bayoneted" Kennedy, another innocent bystander, who unfortunately was also deaf, and had been walking on his way home through Phoenix Park and was therefore unaware of all of the activity that was going on around him, and they also "shot" him as he fell to the ground.  

February 18th: The British Imperial Government's Dublin Castle's authorities R.I.C. police spy network in Ireland, was now "undermined," with most of the British Government "spies and informers" done away with, and members of their "G" (Government) Division was also removed one by one, so they were now down to relying on using British Imperial "Secret Agents" who in order to get results were to operate "anywhere" and at any time, and the I.R.A. from now on had to be very diligent, to ensure that the these "Secret Agents" never succeeded in their covert missions. The success of Michael Collins' infiltration, inside of the "British Intelligence Service" in Ireland, was brought home especially on one occasion, when the I.R.A leadership was to meet at a house in Merrion Square in Dublin as the Chief of the British Government's "G" Division in Ireland had been informed of the meeting, and also exactly when they were to meet, and trusting no one himself, he made the unfortunate choice of only taking along Lieutenant "G" who then took him out on the way there, making out that they had both come under attack from the I.R.A.. Also an "informer" by the name of "Quinlisk," who was to be the first and last to do so, had tried to set up Michael Collins when he met with him personally, telling him he was a "double agent," so Michael Collins told him to meet with him at a certain address in the City of Cork, his response to this was that the British Intelligence sent an immediate message, by code, to the Dubin Castle's R.I.C. police there to capture him, but it was to be one of Michael Collins' own informants in their R.I.C. police who decoded the message, and instead "Quinlisk" himself was executed by the Irish Republican Army / I.R.A. when he also showed up. Another of the British Imperial Government's "Secret Agents," known as "Hardy," approached Arthur Griffith with a bogus plan to capture certain British Army heads who were then stationed in Ireland, and he too wanted a "personal" interview with Michael Collins, and Arthur Griffith took him to a room where he also introduced him to a "bogus" Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith then informed "Hardy" that he had been in receipt of correspondence between "Hardy" and the British Imperial Government authorities and advised him to "leave" Ireland as quickly as he could for his own sake.

     Sir Ormonde Winter was now appointed the British Imperial Government's Director of Intelligence in Ireland, after previously serving in "India" in a similar capacity there for the British Government, and he imported 50 Bloodhounds to track down the I.R.A. who nevertheless then upset his ingenious plan by putting "disinfectant" on their boots and also using "pepper" and the British Imperial Government, who were now more desperate then ever to continue on with their control over the population in Ireland, then "suppressed" the Freeman's Journal for reporting what they said were "false statements." They then brought in an officer named William Redmond from Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province to take control over the Dublin Castle's R.I.C. police force, and also sent an ex - British soldier known as "Jameson," over from "Scotland Yard," who was to operate as another of their "Secret Agents" with his main objective to assist William Redmond to "get" Michael Collins, as Jameson had previously infiltrated the I.R.A. group in London where he had told the Irish Republican Army representatives there that he would be able to obtain "arms" for them, and he had secretly worked his way also into the Irish Labour movement. He was so convincing when he came to Ireland that he was to personally be able to attend a meeting with Michael Collins himself, who then put him to the test by informing him that a certain document of interest to the British Imperial Government was being held, in what he knew was actually a pro - British household. This particular house was then "raided" by the British Military Forces giving away the true identity of "Jameson," and his superior William Redmond was then shot dead a few days later and the terrified Jameson then took off back to England to make his report to the British Coalition Government, but made the mistake of feeling that he was still safe and returned to Ireland once again to continue on with his "spying" operations on their behalf, and as his true purpose was now well known he too was soon disposed of by the I.R.A. Still undaunted the British Imperial Government then sent over another of their "Secret Agents," who went by the name of "Fergus Molloy" who also endeavoured to set up Michael Collins personally, but he too was discovered and then disposed of becoming the "last" British agent of that type to try and do so in Ireland.

    In America, John Devoy, from the Clann na Gael, now publicly outlined his "grievances" against Eamonn de Valera the President of 1st Dail Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly in various articles printed in their paper there, and W.J. Maloney circulated a pamphlet in response, and together with Joseph Mac Garrity from the Clann na Gael and Dr. Patrick Mac Cartan, the 1st Dail Eireann Ambassador in America, they set up a meeting at the Lexington Theatre to bring to an "end" the open "ego" breach in the Irish - American relations. Eamonn de Valera's opinion was that he did not want to appear to be under the "thumb" of Judge Cohalan in America, as he was the actual leader / Taoiseach of the 1st Dail Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly, which meant that he must operate as his own man. 

March 1st:  The town of Thurles in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province was "sacked again" by the British Imperial Forces in Ireland.

     Eamonn de Valera the staid Priomh Aire of the 1st Dail Eireann who was still in America was feeling the strain of his "personal" confrontations with the Irish - American leaders, but despite this he had still managed to see many of the American Senators there personally to pursue his goal of the recognition of the Irish Republic.  

March 2nd: David Lloyd - George the British Imperial Prime Minister and his Coalition Government were now really "desperate" to keep up their "Imperial" pressure in Ireland, and they sent over 2 more of their "Intelligence Officers" this time to set up a "Murder Gang" to carry out their agenda in Ireland, and they were to commit really terrible atrocities without any regard at all for "human life," with David Lloyd - George's full knowledge who had instructed them to "murder" 2 Sinn Fein Party supporters for every one of the British Imperial Military Forces, and this personal instruction was to be "confirmed" later on by Sir Henry Wilson the British Imperial Government's Chief of Staff, who was actually "against" it. With the full backing of David  Lloyd - George the Prime Minster of the British Imperial Government they then tried to "murder" any prominent Sinn Fein Party "supporter" they could find, knowing full well that there would be no actual "repercussions" on them by the British Government for doing so.

March 7th:  The town of Thurles in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province was "sacked again" by the British Military Forces.   

March 11th: The 1st Dail Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly Cabinet had Arthur Griffith their Acting Vice - President send an assurance of "full support" to Eamonn de Valera in "America" over his ongoing dispute with John Devoy and Judge Cohalan from the Clann na Gael there in America.

March 13th:  The town of Thurles in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province was "sacked again" by the British Imperial Government Military Forces, but this time they also "shot and wounded" a physically handicapped young boy in place of his brother, together with another 10 year old boy who they actually "shot dead."         

March 16th: Thomas Mac Curtin the Mayor of Cork in Co. Cork in Southern Munster together with many of the prominent "elected political" Sinn Fein Party and 1st Dail Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly D.T's began to receive "death notices" from the British Imperial Government's Army Intelligence Department's established "Murder Gang," who were now also set up in their stronghold in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre) and they could now do as they liked in Ireland and were subject to no one, with the full personal backing of David Lloyd - George the British Imperial Government's Prime Minister.