1920 AD - 2 / April to June
"General Elections - 124 Sinn Fein T.D.s Successful."
1920. April 4th:
With
the anniversary of the
1916 Irish Easter Uprising coming up on the horizon the
British Imperial Government
in England was preparing for another of the same in
Ireland, but the
I.R.A. instead carried out a raid on their
Income Tax Offices
all over
Ireland
instead destroying
all of their "records," which ensured that there would be no more
Irish
tax collected in
Ireland
by the British Imperial Governments and the
Irish Republican
Army / I.R.A.
altogether were to also burn down
315 of the empty British Government's
Dublin Castle's
R.I.C
police barracks
throughout Ireland,
to
ensure that they would never again be used "against" the
Irish
population.
75 of the Irish "political" prisoners that were still being held by the British Imperial Government in "Mountjoy Jail" in Dublin went on a hunger strike, to be treated as what they realy were " political" prisoners, and an appeal was made to Lord French, who was still the British Government's appointed Military Viceroy to finally show some humanity, but his only reply was that, "They must all suffer the consequences" and the "Irish Union Congress" and the Irish Labour Party ordered a General "Stoppage" in Ireland against the horrendous treatment that was being carried out on these prisoners, by the British Imperial Government, in which they were supported by the Catholic Irish Bishops. The "hunger" strike was to be continued on for another 10 days, until General Neville Mac Ready was to arrive arrive in Ireland to replace Lord French, and they were all to be finally "released" from their confinement. In England, Joseph Mac Donagh with 150 other Irish "political" prisoners there, who had only been "imprisoned" on "suspicion" in the British Government's "Wormwood Scrubs Prison," also organized a similar strike for 18 days and it too was to prove to be successful.
In Milltown - Malbay in
Co.
Clare in the north - west of the
Munster Province 3
Irish people
in the town were "killed" and 5
others were wounded, when the British Government's Dublin
Castle
R.I.C
police and their
British
Military Forces fired into a crowd there, who were
only celebrating the release of the
Irish
"political" prisoners there also.
30
extra British Imperial Government
Tax
offices, and another
95
empty Dublin Castle
R.I.C
police barracks were burnt down in
Ireland by the
Irish Republican
Army /
I.R.A.
The Irish
"railway" employees were now also
refusing to carry the
British Imperial Army
Forces and their armaments to use against the
population in
Ireland, as the
British Coalition Government still continued
to bring in more of their British Forces to re - enforce
their overall authority in Ireland under the
"Immoral Union"
and one of these was in the form of a
"Bank Officer," who tried to force
the Irish
Banks
to produce their books, with the intention of getting his hands on the
Irish
National
Loan money
for the British Imperial Government that was being raised
in Ireland to further
the cause of Irish Independence, but he too was
to be
shot dead, and at least no further
attempts were then made by the British
Government in this regard. After
2
of the
"Detectives"
from the British Government's Dublin Castle's
Metropolitan Police
were also shot in
Dublin,
they too also basically also ceased to function on behalf of the
British Imperial Government
there.
April 28th:
The
Cork
Irish Republican Army / I.R.A. in Southern
Munster, replaced the Dublin Castle's
R.I.C
police
there, by catching the "bank" robbers themselves and returning the
money, and all of the
Irish Republican Army members
now began to take over similar
tasks by fulfilling the roles that were previously supposed to be carried out by the
Dublin Castle's
R.I.C. police and further efforts were begun to encourage the
Dublin Castle's R.I.C
police to resign from their
untenable
positions, which from now on they continued
to do in great numbers, as did many of the
British
Coalition Government's
appointed Magistrates.
At the
Local Government
elections in Ireland the
"political"
Sinn Fein
Party received a "majority" in
every Council election,
outside of the north - east
of the
Ulster
Province,
where there were always Ascendancy
"Official" Unionist majorities, and the
Dublin Castle Corporation
and the Irish
Councils from now on proceeded to pledge their
"allegiance"
to the 1st Dail
Eireann /
1st Irish Assembly
and refused to give up their
"minutes"
to the British
Government's
Local Government Board.
May 3rd:
David Lloyd - George
the
British
Imperial Prime Minister and the British Parliament at
Westminster in England
without any real Irish
representatives involved, proceeded to pass their
Government of
Ireland Act
1920 as it had been previously assessed by the
Ascendancy "Official" Unionists that if the whole
9
Counties in the Ulster Province were "artificially partitioned"
from Ireland on their behalf,
there would only be a
53% "Ascendancy" majority
and this would make the continuation of the Ascendancy nearly impossible, while
on the other hand, they had considered that if
4 of the Counties were
"artificially
partitioned" namely,
Co. Antrim, Co. Down, Co. Armagh
and
Co. Derry there would be a 70%
"Ascendancy" majority, and due to the previous "confiscations" and non -
Catholic "Plantations" in the Ulster Province another
2 Counties, Co. Fermanagh and Co. Tyrone,
only had a "small" Irish Catholic majority
that could be easily "manipulated," and "gerrymandered," while the other
3 Counties, Co. Monaghan, Co. Donegal
and Co. Cavan still had large
Irish Catholic
majorities, which would certainly tip the balance
against
the Ascendancy gaining "total overall" control there in
Ulster Province.
David Lloyd - George
the British Imperial Prime Minister under the auspices of Brtish Law and the
"Immoral Union" went ahead and "artificially partitioned"
Ireland
in to
2 parts,
to suite the continuation of the
Ascendancy with the
2
"artificially divided"
parliaments,
(1) in Belfast / Stormont in Co. Antrim
comprising the
6 Counties
"artificially partitioned" from the
9 in the Ulster
Province
they had decided to partition
on purely sectarian grounds to suite the
"Ascendancy"
as the "Official
Unionists"
had only wanted the
6
Counties that would
give them an absolute majority there as already in these 6
Counties, due to the massive previous confiscations there and the non - Catholic
plantations they had previously made it too hard for the
Irish Catholics to survive
there
anyway. From now on they were going to be allowed by the
successive British Imperial
Governments to
also do away with
"Proportional Representation" and "gerrymander"
whatever they liked affecting the lives of all of those who remained within these particular
6 Counties in the
Ulster Province, to strengthen their
Ascendancy position further, as this
momentus decision gave
these 6 Counties only a
1 / 3 minority
Irish
Catholic population to work on, out of
the 1.4
million
people,
who were still living there. Although
2 of the other
Ulster
Province Counties of Ireland
that they also secured, Co. Fermanagh and Co. Tyrone,
actually had
Irish Catholic
majorities they
could be
easily be organized to suite by
"gerrymandering" the
"boundaries," while also in the south of
Co. Armagh, and the south
of
Co. Down,
and a large area of
Co. Derry and
Derry City itself there were also
Irish
Catholic majorities. Under the
British Imperial Government's "sectarian" legislation, the
6 Counties of
Ulster
Province
"artificially partitioned"
from
the whole of
the 32 Counties of Ireland,
which was to be known as
Northern Ireland, although
Co. Donegal was not in it and
was actually the most "northern" County, There was to be
52
members
elected by
Proportional Representation and a Senate
of
26 members
with
24
of these
elected by the
House of Commons,
while the other
2
were to be the Mayor of
Belfast
and the Mayor of
Derry.
George V,
the German Hanoverian
King of Britain, was to eventually open
this "artificial fractured" Ascendancy parliament
at
Stormont near
Belfast.
(2) In
Dublin. under the
British Imperial Government's legislation the other
"artificially divided" parliament, was to be
comprised of the remaining 26 Counties of Ireland,
including the
23 Counties
in the
Connacht Province, the Leinster
Province and the
Munster
Province, plus the
3
Counties that the
Ascendancy did not want who had an
Irish
Catholic "majority"
in the
Ulster Province, which was to be known as
Southern Ireland
that was to still
contain 95 %
of the Catholic
Irish
together with
those
3
Counties "artificially" kicked out of
Ulster
Province to suite the continuation of the
Ascendancy in Ireland.
These
3
Ulster Province
Counties
were namely,
Co. Cavan, Co. Monaghan,
and Co. Donegal
the most "northerly" County in the whole of
Ireland.
The main factor still existing in all of this continued mayhem, was that in the 32 Counties, that made up the whole of Ireland, even after all of the previous "confiscations," the "murders," the "ethnic cleansing" and the Ascendancy "sectarian" "plantations" and the "oppression" carried out during the preceding 750 years, by the consecutives English - British Government authorities, there was still an overall 75 % of the population of Ireland who were still Irish Catholics.
What was to really happen during the "General Elections," instead of the previous 73 elected T.D.s for the 1st Dail Eireann there was now to be 124 elected "political" Irish Sinn Fein Party members who were successfully returned, "unopposed," with the other 4 being from the Ascendancy stronghold of "Trinity College" who were also "unopposed."
May 5th: Sir
Hamar Greenwood
the newly appointed
British Government's Chief Secretary
in Ireland,
who was to be a real
"nasty" individual,
arrived into Ireland bringing
Sir
Arthur Cope as his
British Under - Secretary
who succeeded
Sir
John Taylor,
and he had been especially chosen
by David Lloyd - George the British Imperial Prime Minister for his particular
"outlook and attitude" towards the population of
Ireland, and he was to constantly explain away the
"
terror campaigns" that were to be conducted under his control, which he began in
Co. Tipperary
in the north - east of the Munster Province,
and carried out on the
population in general there by the British Imperial
Forces, that it was the
Irish
population
themselves
carrying out reprisals against their "own" people. He gave the
4 British Government Imperial "Forces," the
Dublin Castle's
R.I.C. police, the
"Black & Tans,"
the
"Auxiliaries" and the
"British Military," a
free hand to do whatever they liked, when ever they
liked, to the
Irish population,
and always defended all of the ongoing criticism that came out against their
continuing "violent" actions that they carried out on the general population in
Ireland.
David
Lloyd - George
the British
Imperial
Coalition Prime Minister had
shown all along that he had been "unwilling" to face up to
the actual reality,
and the "democratic" will of the
Irish people, and was now going to
go all out to show the
Irish the real
"might" of the
British Imperial
Empire, as he had by now recruited
7,000
ex - British
Army soldiers, which included many
"inmates" from the
British prison system, to try and
maintain "control" over the
Irish, and these
became known as the
"Black & Tans" from the
particular gear
they wore, and also after a local pack of "foxhounds." They were set on the
"population" of Ireland to wrought their
terrible
terror, at first outside of the
Dublin City area, to intimidate the
Irish
population generally where the
Irish
resistance was
the "strongest," and
5 to 6 of them were billeted in
with the British Imperial
Government's Dublin Castle's R.I.C. police
in their
barracks. Later on to support them he was also to
"recruit" another
1,500 ex
- British
Army officers, from the rank of captain
up, to be known as the
"Auxiliaries," who he was to
give "twice" the pay, that he gave to the
"Black & Tans" to carry out their
dreadful "sadistic" agenda in Ireland. They were also allowed to operate with a
"free
hand" to carry out any "sadistic" operation they liked in Ireland,
and also had among
their ranks many "criminals," and were a really
nasty lot, who used ex -
British Army
Crossley Tenders
to carry out their raids in the
Dublin
area, and their policy was to, "Shoot
first and ask questions later." They were to leave
behind the everlasting legacy of the memory of the
British Imperial Empire's continuing atrocities and cruelty and
lack of humanity such as the terrible raid they carried out on the town of
Balbriggan
were they burnt
25 houses down and the
Irish Co - operative
Creamery there. These British
Imperia Empire men of terror, who had
been left over and
out of touch with reality from the "1st World War,"
were then added to the
40,000 British
Military Forces stationed in Ireland
already to keep the Irish population under their
total overall control, but
the Irish population with their
determination, their free minds, their limited forces and resources were to continue to
stand up to them and take all they could give, which was
plenty.
June 1st:
Michael Collins
at this time was
assisted by
Richard Mac Kee,
the overall commander of the
Irish Republican Army's / I.R.A.s
Dublin Brigade,
Liam Tobin
was his
"Deputy
Director of Intelligence,"
along with
Tom Cullen and
Frank Thornton and on this date he was
to be in receipt of correspondence that had been sent by one of
the
British
Imperial Government's
Commissioners, in which it stated that they intended to
stamp out the
Irish resistance
completely by carrying out
"secret murders" on the
Irish population, but despite this extra imminent warning he had
already been made aware of this fact, as he had been previously advised by
Lieutenant "G," who was a member of the
British Military Intelligence in the
Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre). Also among his
"informants" in the
British
Imperial Government's stronghold in the
Dublin Castle were
Ned Broy,
Kavanagh, Neligan
and
Mac Namara,
who all kept him up to date on any of the intended actions of the
Dublin Castle
authorities to be carried out
against the Irish population in general.
As
Sir Hamar
Greenwood
the British
Imperial Government appointed
Under - Secretary of State in
Ireland
had
now been given
complete
control by David LLoyd - George and the British Coalition Government
over the
Dublin Castle's R.I.C, Black &
Tans,
their
Auxiliaries,
their "Spies" and their
"Secret Agents," to carry out any "mayhem" he saw fit on
the Irish population and
he
combined
the "Black & Tans"
with the existing
Dublin Castle's R.I.C.
police who were to also gain this title from their khaki uniforms together with their black -
green belts and caps previously worn by
the Dublin Castle's
R.I.C. police. He immediately sent
them on the "attack" against the general population in
Ireland,
and issued a
weekly summary
sheet from his fortress in the
Dublin Castle
(The Devil's 1/2 acre) from where he
spurred them on
to keep
it up, even to "mudering" any of the
Irish
in their beds, and because of these instructions their
"Murder Gangs"
now
just ran completely "amok" in
Ireland. They wantonly "killed"
Irish children, civilians, cripples, old
men and pregnant women,
both in the day and in the night, such as the "murder" of
Jack O Hanlon, who was shot at
Turlough More in
Co. Galway
in the Connacht Province,
who was murdered in front of his parents, his wife, and his children,
and
they also
fired on his "funeral procession," where they
also
"wounded" several of the mourners.
June 3rd:
More rantings of
British Imperialism were
heard when Walter Long
who was
a Conservative M.P. in the
British Westminster House
of Commons, stated that, "The
police in
Ireland had shot the
Irish
people with good effect and he hoped they would do it
again."
Meanwhile
those among the
Dublin Castle's
R.I.C.
police who were loyal to the
Irish
cause, and therefore also loyal to
Michael Collins,
had stayed on in the
Dublin Castle's R.I.C.
police force ranks, while the ordinary members of the
Dublin Castle's
R.I.C.
police who were also of
Irish
descent "resigned,"
and the
British Law Courts
that were
held
under the auspices of the previous
"British Law" and
their "Immoral Union" were
now
"unable" to operate in Ireland.
More ethnic
British Imperialism occurred, when
Lt. Colonel
Ferguson - Smyth
the British Divisional
Commissioner of the
Dublin Castle's Royal
Irish Constabulary / R.I.C. for
6 of the
Irish Counties,
addressed a squad
of
18 R.I.C
Irish
men at
Listowel
in
Co. Kerry
in the south - west of the
Munster Province,
telling them that,
"The more you shoot the better we will like you"
and such a suggestion would naturally upset any decent
Irishman,
and the
R.I.C men there were revolted by
his direction, with
Jeremiah Mee
/ Ua Miadhaigh "resigning" instantly and
then Ferguson - Smyth the R.I.C. District Inspector
then
"ordered" the other R.I.C. police present to arrest him, but no one would
carry it out.
Lt. Colonel Ferguson - Smyth
then left the
area, but the disaffection that he had further created, against
the continuing
British Imperialism
spread
throughout the rest of the R.I.C
police barracks
and he would be eventually shot dead by members of the
Cork Irish Republican Army / I.R.A. a few days later, while the inquest on his death had to be
"abandoned" as the Irish
jurors
refused to attend the hearing.
The matter of protecting his "intelligence" sources was by
now of great difficulty for
Michael Collins, who decided to have
the Dublin Castle's
R.I.C. Sgt,
who was acting
as one of his "agents," kidnapped, as he was sure that
the British Imperial Government's
Dublin Castle authorities had found out about him, but unfortunately those who were
sent were not aware of his true status, and instead he was
to be "killed" during the attempt, but despite these types of setbacks the
"actual" Irish
R.I.C.
police were now no longer
operating as an "Intelligence Service"
against the
Irish population throughout
Ireland
on behalf of the
British
Imperial Government.
The brother of the recently deceased Lt. Colonel Ferguson - Smyth, who was himself an English officer in the British Imperial Military transferred to Dublin in an attempt to carry out a "revenge" attack for his brother's death, so Sir Ormonde Winter made use of him and put him into the British Intelligence Service. An informer who was known to one and all as "Bow Tie," who was out for "blood money," told the British authorities that there were 2 I.R.A. staying at Professor Carolan's house, and Sir Ormonde Winter and Ferguson - Smyth surrounded the house and a gun battle ensued in which Dan Breen was shot twice. Despite these injuries Dan Breen and Sean Treacy were still able to escape, but Ferguson - Smyth was also "killed." Professor Carolan was then stood up against the wall and "shot" in cold blood in the back of the head, but despite this terrible injury he was still able to live long enough to tell what had occurred there. The Fleming brothers, who lived next door to Professor Carolan, were then also "arrested" without any justification, with Michael Fleming being offered 10,000 pounds and a safe passage to Britain to tell them anything he could about Dan Breen, but he refused, so he was put before a British Court Martial and sentenced to 3 years in prison, which they eventually had to reduce to 9 months, while his brother, James was put in "Mountjoy Jail" in Dublin were he also was interrogated, but they finally had to let him go also.
In America, Eamonn de Valera
the
Priomh Aire of
the
1st Dail Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly
had proceeded on his
own to the "Conservative"
Republican Convention in
Chicago, and organized
demonstrations to try and influence the "Republican" delegates there to put the
recognition of the
Republic of
Ireland
up as a "plank" in their platform.
June 5th:
Meanwhile the
Friends of Irish Freedom in America, had agreed
also to put
forward the same motion to the same
"Republican Convention," which was to be held in
Chicago, for
the recognition of the
Irish Republic,
as a plank in their
platform, and
Judge
Cohalan
had been personally organized to
carry this out on their behalf, but he was under obligation to
Hiram Johnson the
Conservative
Republican candidate who was running for the nomination as
President of America
and by
association,
Hiram
Johnson was seen to be too "close" to the
Irish
cause, so he
had asked Judge
Cohalan to back off, and he
would ensure the political situation in
Ireland
would be looked into if he
gained office, so
Judge
Cohalan
changed his motion
to "Sympathy
with
Ireland's cause" instead, and both
the resolutions were put forward, but
were still "not supported" in the
American Republican "Conservative Party" camp.
June 17th -18th - 19th:
The
1st Dail
Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly met
"secretly"
in Ireland at
Fleming's Hotel
were
Michael Collins
put forward
an idea to the group, that no "income tax"
be paid to the
British Imperial Government,
but instead to the
1st
Dail Eireann,
who would protect those who followed their direction, and
from now on the "majority" of the
people in
Ireland were to do this right up to the
beginnings of the future
Irish Free
State.
The British Imperial Forces continued on in Ireland with their campaign of "burning and looting," and to send a further message to the general Irish population they also "killed" one of the jurors who had participated in a trial after one of their soldiers was "killed" by the I.R.A.
The British Army Colonels Danford and Tyrell, together with General Lucas who was the British Imperial Military Officer in charge at Fermoy were taken as prisoners of "War" by Liam Lynch, George Power and Patrick Clancy with the aid of the Cork No. 2 Irish Volunteer Brigade / I.R.A. and this successful capture of 3 British Military officers brought to the Irish Republicans not only a great amount of "publicity," but also "prestige" for the cause of Irish Independence both overseas and in Ireland itself, but the British Imperial General Lucas who had been in charge of Fermoy was eventually able to escape from captivity a month later. .
At
Temple More in
Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the
Munster Province, the
British Northhamptonshire "Military Regiment"
besieged the town there, and the following night
400 British
Military Forces also attacked the town of
Fermoy in
Co. Cork
in Southern
Munster again, and once again ran
"berserk" throughout the area,
where the
Irish Volunteers / I.R.A.
were able to drive them off, but they then
carried out an "attack" nearby on the town of
Lismore
in Co. Waterford
in the south - east of Munster on
the same night.
June 18th: David Lloyd - George the British Imperial Coalition Prime Minister, once again, responding to the reports of the ongoing "terror campaign" carried out by the British Imperial Military Forces under his watch in Ireland, stated that their "Black & Tans" and their "Auxiliaries" had been sent to Ireland for the "protection" of the Irish population.
Although the
British Imperial Government "Auxiliaries" had
also
since bought in the "bloodhounds"
to track down the
Irish Volunteers / I.R.A they
were able to continue to use
pepper to confuse their senses.
In the town of Bruff in Co. Limerick in the mid - south - west of the Munster Province the British Imperial Military Forces fired on the crowd there, and succeeded in "killing" a 10 year old boy and an "epileptic" youth, and they also sacked the towns of Tuam in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, Lahinch in Co. Clare in the north - west of Munster, and the town of Balbriggan again in Co. Dublin in Southern Leinster.
Diarmuid Lynch "resigned" from the
1st Dail Eireann
/ 1st Irish Assembly
in protest at the
continual interference by
Eamonn de Valera and
John Devoy
who were both in
America, of the affairs actually
occurring in Ireland, and he continued his attacks on
Eamonn de Valera in relation to
Michael Collins who
he considered was the one who was
always actually "risking" his life daily back in
Ireland
and in his
articles he named, Michael Collins, as the
Commander - In - Chief, which
only further upset the staid
Cathal Brugha
/
Charles Burgess the
1st Dail
Eireann "Minister of Defence" who was
already out of sorts with Michael Collins to begin with.
June 28th:
The
British Imperial
Government's
other proposed "artificially divided"
Southern Ireland parliament
was opened for the remaining
26 Counties from the whole
of Ireland in Dublin,
but it only lasted for
15 minutes,
as there was only the
4 unopposed
Ascendancy
"Trinity
College"
members in attendance, along with those
nominees of the
British
Imperial Government
for the
Senate.
Further, British Imperial Government "secret agents" now began to arrive into Dublin, with their very English accents, which stood out for all of the Irish population to hear, and they began recruiting their "Touts" who were the lowest of the low, who were to be known in Ireland as "Tick - Tack Men," who actually really knew nothing at all of what was going on in Ireland, and these British Imperial Government independent "Intelligence Agents" together with their other British Imperial Government "independent forces," were added to by the 11,000 R.I.C / Black & Tans, the 1500 British Army "Auxiliaries" to come and 40,000 British Imperial Army Forces to ensure the Irish pooulation were to continue to toe the British Imperial Government's line,
June: "Rioting" was now occurring this month in Derry City in Co. Derry in the north - east of the 6 Counties of the Ulster Province "artificially separated" and it soon spread further there also into nearby Belfast in Co. Antrim in Ulster Province.
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