1920 AD - 3 / July - September

                                                                                                                                         " Sinn Fein Party Wins 172 Seats." 

1920.July 1st: David Lloyd - George the British Imperial Coalition Prime Minister was now sure that the British Government's "Murder Gang" in Ireland were "killing" 2 Sinn Fein Party supporters to every 1 of the British Military Forces who were killed, so he "abolished" the Coroners Inquests in Ireland altogether and put in British Military Inquiries instead to suite his agenda and the immediate result of this was that Ann O Neill an 8 year old girl was "shot dead" from a passing British Government Military vehicle and her death went before the British Government Military Inquiry he had recently and personally set up and the only result from it was that an order was issued stating that, "There was to be "no marching" of any kind at her funeral."

    In the town of Ballina 4 young Irishmen were also "shot dead" by the British Government's Dublin Castle's R.I.C "Black & Tans" police without any recourse whatsoever.      

July: In America, Eamonn de Valera through the auspices of Frank P. Walshe made further contacts there to put pressure on the "American Democratic Party" delegates attending the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, as he also wanted them to support a "plank" in their platform for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, but it too was knocked "back" by their resolutions committee, but despite this Edward L. Doherty, who was based in California, was one of those who spoke up strongly in it's favour at the "Convention" and although it was certainly backed up by many of the other speakers, they too were only able to achieve "Sympathy with Ireland." 

     The British Imperial Government's 1,500 "Auxiliaries" who were ex - British Army officers, who had been recruited by General Tudor for double pay, and known as the Dublin Castle's R.I.C. Divisions were given a Police Sgt. ranking under the British Military General Crozier, and as previously "desperate" and "unemployed" men they were to become known as "Tudor's Toughs" who had really only been trained to shoot and throw bombs and at first they were placed in the Curragh barracks and then posted throughout Ireland where they were to be set up in any of the Irish houses they could "take over" and commandeer, and they would "fight till the death" while driving around in their British R.A.F. Crossley Tenders, that accomodated 12 men. They were neither "Police" nor "Army," but existed somewhere in between the two British Imperial Government Forces, and were a law unto themselves while carrying out their dreaded operations in Ireland, answering to "no" one and one of the places they took over was the Guinness Castle at Macroom in Co. Cork in Southern Munster were they just "evicted" those who were in living there.   

     Michael Collins was now under extreme pressure from this new British Imperial Government "terror" campaign, as the Irish did not have the resources to stand up against the British Imperial Government's total Military onslaught, but he also knew that he could rely on their usual British "brutality and stupidity," and the usual "faction" that would eventually occur amongst all of these different British Military Forces and this would then also bring about further "scrutiny" into the terrible things they were doing and this increased "publicity" would bring about a more sympathetic "World" opinion for the  population in Ireland who were still physically and mentally suffering under the British Imperial Empire and their "Immoral Union."

July: During this month 9 more innocent Irish civilians were "killed," including a youth who was just holding a meeting with his friends, and all up 70 people from out of the Irish population were to be "wounded" within only a month, as these rampant British Imperial Military Forces also carried out their continuing attacks on the individual towns in the various Counties in Ireland, including Ballinine, Ballyanders, Bantry, Carrick on the Shannon, Clondulane, Emly, Enniscorthy, Fermoy, Kilcommon, Limerick, Lismore, Newcastle West, Newtown Mount Kennedy, Pennywell, Rearcross, Swords, Templemore, Thurles, Tuam and Union Hall.  

      The amount of "monetary" assitance that had been now raised in Ireland alone, towards the Irish National Loan for the establishment of the Irish Republic, was already well above the original target that the 1st Dail Eireann had previously set, and this was despite all of the purging by the British Imperial MIlitary Forces to try and stop it from happening, and also their various attempts to try and seize the funds, with each subscriber to the Irish National Loan risking "arrest and imprisonment" by supporting the loan. Other monetary assistance was also being received from all over the "World," while also many of the population of Ireland themselves were being "arrested" by the British Imperial Miliary Forces for either commending the Irish National Loan to any one else, or even assisting in anyway of promoting it's "success."

July 12th: Up in Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province the "Official" Unionists made an address to the non - Catholic workers in the shipyards there, calling for the use of revolvers," To drive the Fenians out" and immediately further "sectarian violence" occurred there once again carried out on the Catholic Irish workers in that area and also in other northern Ulster Province townships, where the perpertrators also burnt and looted their "homes" and although these were seen as "sectarian" riots, they had been brought about basically by the large scale unemployment, the mismanagement and the policies that were then being carried out there by the "Official" Unionist Stormont Government there. These particular "riots" were to last for 3 days during which time 18 people there were "killed" and 200 injured by the anti - Catholic rhetoric and the rioters who were being stirred on by the ingrained "siege mentality," the bigotry and any other agenda or connivance, and also by "no protection" being given to the population there by the British Imperial Military Forces. Edward Carson the leader of the Ulster "Official" Unionists then made another fiery speech in Derry there in the very same vein, and similar "sectarian riots" were then to occur in other areas of the 6 "artificially partitioned" Counties that had been removed from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province," over the following 12 months.

     In America, Eamonn de Valera the Priomh Aire of the 1st Dail Eireann addressed a Labour Party group there who were willing to pledge their support towards the Recognition of the Irish Republic, but who had no hope of winning the American Presidential election, and John Devoy from the Clann na Gael / The Organization there was continuing to keep up his personal attacks on the staid Eamonn de Valera.

July 19th: Further "sectarian riots" occurred once again in the 6 Counties to be "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, which were to last for another 5 days, that were now under the control of the British Imperial Government's installed "Official" Unionist government involving further "bloodshed" and destruction of property there, which were once again not halted by the British Imperial Military Forces there as the rioters carried the Union Jack before them as they continued to besiege the Catholic Irish population there, and as intended "thousands" of the Irish Catholics there were then forced to flee from their particular living area in fear of losing their lives. This was already part of the "agenda and strategy" being utilised at this earlier period to bring about further "ethnic and religious cleansing" from these 6 Counties in the Ulste Province, with further violence also occurring in both Lisburn and Bangor.

July 23rd: On this day 2,000 Irish railway men were "suspended" by the British Imperial Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre) authorities during the "Railway Strike" as they refused to transport the British Imperial Military Forces and their ammunition throughout Ireland, as they were "killing" and "maiming" the Irish population without any check on the terrible activities they were doing.

     The 1st Dail Eireann - 1st Irish Assembly declared that all "Religious Tests" on anyone at all in the Irish population were "illegal," and the "political" Sinn Fein Party also declared a "boycott" on all the goods in Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province to try and stop the continuing "sectarian" attacks being carried out on the Catholic Irish population there and Joseph Mac Donagh was appointed by the 1st Dail Eireann to carry it out with the Irish Volunteers / I.R.A. and the "boycott" there soon became widespread.  

August 4th: The Irish National Loan for the establishment of Irish Independence, that was being collected in Ireland only for the Recognition of the Irish Republic was still "growing," and as a measure of its real importance to the people of Ireland it was by now up to 357,000 pounds.        

August 8th: Terence Mac Swiney was the new Lord Mayor of Cork in Southern Munster who had replaced Thomas Mac Curtin who had been "murdered" by the British Imperial Government's "Murder Squad, and he too was now "arrested" by the Dublin Castle's R.I.C. / "Black & Tans" together with 10 other Irishmen, and he was then personally "charged" with carrying an Irish Volunteer / I.R.A. code on his person as during the "Troubles" in the area embracing the vicinity of the City of Cork there was a fair proportion of active I.R.A. / Irish Volunteer forces, and the general Irish population in that area were to suffer greatly under the continuing "terrorising" acts that were carried out there by the British Imperial Military Forces, who were also to be defeated there on many occasions, by the Mere Irishmen there much to their disgust.               

August 12th: Terence Mac Swiney the Lord Mayor of Cork and the 10 other Irishmen were "charged" by a British Imperial Court Martial and he was given 2 years of imprisonment and was also "deported" out of Ireland to "Brixton Prison" in England, and in protest he went on a "hunger strike" as did 20 of the Irish Volunteers who were also being held at this time in the Cork Jail itself in Southern Munster.   

August 14th: Patrick Lynch who lived in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province was forcibly taken from out of his bed by the British Imperial Military Forces and his "bullet - riddled" body was later found in the region and on this same night there was also an attack carried out on the Dublin Castle's R.I.C. barracks at Ballinlough in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province were there is a "memorial" to the Irishmen who were also "killed" there. 

    In the town of Lisburn in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province, a Dublin Castle R.I.C. police inspector was "killed" and many "riots" broke out and the British Conservatives themselves were now finally "backing off" with their unlimited support for the "Official" Unionists who they had put in control of the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, and the British Imperial Government still under David Lloyd - George  were now looking for the best "terms" that they could get to settle the "Troubles" in Ireland that they had "allowed" him to continue to create. Sir Neville Mac Ready the British Imperial Government Military commander in Ireland, in an attempt to stop the actual British Military Forces in Ireland from getting the "direct blame" for the terrible horrifying "deeds" being carried out by the British Imperial Auxiliaries and Black & Tans who were attached to the British Government's stronghold in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre) to try and give their actual separate British Military Forces some sought of "identifying" uniform. (In response they gave the "Black & Tans" Tam O Shanters to wear on their heads).

September: Inspector Burke, a member of the "Black & Tan" Dublin Castle's R.I.C police, was shot dead in the town of Balbriggan near Dublin after he and his brother Sgt. Burke together with 3 of the British Imperial Government "Auxiliaries" were refused drinks at a local hotel and were asked to leave the premises and after they "refused" to go the I.R.A / Irish Volunteer police were called to remove them from the premises and the "Black & Tan Auxiliaries" then pulled out their guns and a shoot out then occurred in which Sgt. Burke was "killed" and his brother was wounded, and the I.R.A. / Irish Volunteer police members then left the scene. The British Imperial Dublin Castle's "Black & Tan R.I.C.police " in the town of Gormanston, acting under orders from their officers, then attacked the actual township of Balbriggan again that night and "killed" James Lawley the father of  9 children, and also John Gibbons in his own home, and wrecked the town and set fire to 40 of the homes there. Some of the Dublin Castle's R.I.C. who were shocked by the orders that were given to them to carry out these terrible appalling attacks on the general Irish population there "deserted" the Dublin Castle's R.I.C police altogether, and came out and made "personal" public statements about the details of the terrible acts that were done there that night. The British Imperial Dublin Castle's "Black & Tan R.I.C". forces also carried out another raid setting fire to the town of Lahinch in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province where they shoved Connolly / Ua Conghaile one of the town's residents into a "burning" building were he was burnt alive, and they also attacked the area to the west of Co. Clare, as a further act of "uncontrolled" violence, but there they soon found "opposition" and were driven off by the I.R.A. / Irish Volunteers. Nearby in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht they took the 2 Loughnane / Ua Lachtnain brothers and tied their legs together onto the back of a truck and dragged them around the district until they their "lifeless bodies" were completely bruised and battered, and they then threw them in the loch / lake there.

     The British Imperial Dublin Castle's "Black & Tan R.I.C Auxiliaries" with their rifle butts crushed the head of Nicholas Prendergast / de Priondragas in Fermoy, who was a Co. Cork language teacher, and then threw his body into the river, and broke into and burnt a shop belonging to James Dooley / Seamus Ua Dubhlaoich and threw him into the river also, then fired "shots" at him, and when the fire brigade arrived to put out the fire in his shop, they pulled their guns on them and "cut " their fire hoses. Also in Co. Cork, for no reason at all, they "shot" dead Timothy Crowley / Tadhg Ua Cruadhlaoich after his car had broken down, and also the 73 year Canon Magner / Maingneir who was in the car with him and their other friend who was also in the car was a "magistrate" who was able to escape and make out a public "complaint" against them, and because of his position the British Imperial Government had to charge one of these Dublin Castle "Auxiliaries," who as usual they declared was not not actually responsible due to "insanity." They then placed a 10 p.m. curfew on the City of Dublin were the members of the Irish population there were then, either "arrested or shot" on site, depending on the personal disposition of the British Imperial Forces who were involved, and once again with "no recourse. "   

      Cathal Brugha / Charles Burgess the 1st Dail Eireann "Minister for Defence" put it to the Dail Eireann Cabinet to also carry out similar reprisals against the British Imperial Military Forces, but this was not accepted by the Dail Eireann / Irish Assembly Cabinet as they considered only those "responsible" should be made to pay for their own appalling actions in Ireland and a result of this was that James O Beirne / Seamus Ua Birn from the Co. Cork Volunteers I.R.A. was supposed to take care of two of the Dublin Castle "Auxiliaries" that he was holding captive, but instead he decided to let them go and this was to save his life later on in Dublin when he was to be caught there carrying a gun and one of them repaid his act of humanity at that time by letting him go also.  

     The staid, Cathal Brugha / Charles Burgess, the 1st Dail Eireann "Minister for Defence" and "Chief of Staff " of the Irish Volunteers / I.R.A. and Austin Stack / Stac by now were both resolved to have the same attitude towards Michael Collins, to whom they were now showing outright personal "animosity," which was especially noticeable after Liam Mellowes their other associate returned from America and Cathal Brugha now took over as the "Director of Purchases" and the 3 of them joined now joined forces personally against Michael Collins, while Richard Mulcahy the "Deputy Chief of Staff" tried to maintain peace between them.

     The British Imperial Government's new 4th Irish Home Rule Bill / Government of Ireland Act 1920 was passed, which "artificially partitioned" Ireland under British Imperial Law into 2 parts to suite the Ascendancy in Belfast in the north - east of the Ulster Province under the control of the "Official" Unionist leader, Edward Carson and despite their best efforts to have complete control there in these 6 Counties of Ulster Province, due to their loaded bases their "Proportional Representation" measure was to backfire when the Irish Nationalists there where still able to gain the"majority" in 25 of the 76 Councils. James Craig another hard - line "Official" Unionist leader who was to be their main man there, who would eventually be their Prime Minister in 1921 was so worried about this positive "democratic" result that he had to pass a Bill in the Belfast Assembly so that local office holders had to pledge their "obedience" to the British Governments Northern Ireland Constitution as laid out in the 1920 British Government Act.

September 20th: Kevin Barry, an 18 year old student, who was an Irish Volunteer was "captured" while he and some other members were trying to disarm British Imperial Military personnel in the streets of Dublin, and he was taken to a nearby British Military Army barracks were he was "beaten up" and then sentenced to "death" by a British Court Martial for his previous actions. 

September 22nd: John Lynch from Killmallock in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province arrived into Dublin City just to give Michael Collins the 23,000 pounds that he had collected for the Irish National Loan, but during the night he too was "shot dead" in his bed by the British "Murder Gang" who were also to" kill," amongst many others, the "aged" father of O Carroll, who was also a Dublin Irish Volunteer, who they could not find at home personally as they were wantonly allowed in Ireland under the orders of David Lloyd - George the British Imperial Prime Minister to "kill" anyone, anywhere, anytime in cold blood who they even suspected as being a member of the Irish Volunteers, together with many other unfortunate" innocents" also within the Irish population, just for no reason, who were not even Irish Volunteer members, as they had carte - blanch not only from David Lloyd - George the British Imperial mPrime Minister, but also Sir Hamar Greenwood. 

      A personal friend of Michael Collin's was Brigadier General Tom Hales the commander of the Cork Irish Volunteers / I.R.A. 3rd Brigade and he and his comrade, Harte were taken "prisoner" by the British Imperial Essex Military Regiment who then beat both of them up pretty badly and wrapped them up in "explosives," but then suddenly decided to take them into Bandon barracks and on arriving there they beat them up again and put them in front of a firing squad, then decided to take to Harte with a pair of "pincers", crushing his fingernails one by one until he finally went "insane," and the result of this horrific treatment was that he finally had to be committed to a Lunatic Asylum. Tom Hales was then imprisoned and because of this horrific torture the British Imperial Essex Military Regiment was put on notice by the Irish Volunteers to receive special attention in the future. The British Imperial Military Forces also carried out raids on the towns of Cobh in Co. Cork, Ennistymon in Co. Clare, and the British Imperial Military 17th Lancer Regiment also attacked Mallow in Co. Cork where they became known as the "Mallow Murderers," and also attacked a crowd in the town of Arklow in Co. Wicklow in the south - east of the Leinster Province killing one person and wounding another.

     The Irish Transport & General Workers Union organized a "General Strike" in support of the Irish Republican "political" prisoners, who were now on a "hunger strike" in anticipation of being declared what they really were, "political prisoners."        

September 28th: Liam Lynch and the Cork Irish Volunteers No 2 Brigade now besieged the British Imperial Forces at the Mallow Military barracks, which was the first British Military barracks to be "captured," and most of the Dublin Castle's R.I.C. huts in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province were now also burnt together with the church at Clarecastle, so the British Imperial Government sent their Navy destroyers up the Shannon River and it now seemed that It had all finally reached the point of no return, and it was now on for young and old, and 16 members of the Dublin Castle's R.I.C. police, who were still operational and now known to be "pro - British" Imperial Government and against Irish Self Determination were "killed," and another 20 were wounded. Eventually things got so bad that the British Imperial Military General, F. P. Crozier in Ireland was forced to dismiss a number of the British Government "Auxiliaries" for their various abominable horrific crimes, and his dismissal power was then "taken away" from him, so he "resigned," stating that he could no longer maintain the "discipline" among his men, especially after he had discovered one of their plots, which was to drown Michael Fogarty, the Catholic Bishop of Killaloe in Co. Clare, in the River Shannon.  

     The Dail Eireann Irish Republican Courts were now operating in 27 of the 32 Counties in Ireland in opposition to British Law.   

     The "political" Sinn Fein / Irish Republican Party came out in the "General Elections" and won 172 seats out of the 206 available in the Boroughs and the Urban local elections, and they still refused to take up the "Oath of Allegianc" to the German Hanoverian British monarch and also their seats in the Westminster Parliament in England, and they were still the "majority."  

September: In America, Eamonn de Valera who was still the Priomh Aire of the Dail Eireann drew up a proposal in the form of a letter outlining 7 reasons why Ireland should receive it's Independence from British Imperialism, which was to be forwarded as an official representation to the "President of the United States"

September - End: Another 80 people were "killed" this year in further "sectarian rioting" in the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province and a "boycott" was declared in Tuam in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht.

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