1921 AD - 2 / February to March 

                                                                                                                                        "Mayhem Reigns Supreme in Ireland" 

1921 AD February: The authorities in the British Imperial Coalition Government's Dublin Castle stronghold (The Devil's 1/2 Acre), now tried to demoralise all of the Irish forces by putting out a "false" report that they had successfully "killed" or wounded Michael Collins during a previous attack that had been carried out on the Roscarbery Barracks by the Irish Republican Army / Volunteers / I.R.A.

     Desmond Fitz Gerald, the Irish Dail Eireann "Director of Propaganda," had previously been "arrested," so Eamonn de Valera announced to the 1st Dail Eireann Cabinet that he had personally appointed Erskine Childers, who was also a non - Catholic Englishman, to the position of "Director of Publicity," who was to be a civil service head only, for whom he personally would be responsible, but his appointment bought forward strong "protests" from the 1st Dail Eireann Cabinet especially from Sean Mac Entee and Peter Beasley / Piaras Beaslaoi, a member of the G.H.Q. Staff who also acted as the "Press Officer" of the Irish Volunteers / I.R.A and organized interviews for Eammon de Valera to begin his publicity campaign. Despite the objections to the appointment of Erskine Childers, as an Englishman, he was of the opinion also that he understood the English mind and was to ensure as much as it was possible that the Irish facts and point of view, was at times at least received positively in England itself. Robert Barton, also a non - Catholic and another member of the 1st Dail Eireann at this time, was still also being held in the "Portland Prison" in England by the British Imperial Government, just for being a member of the "political" Sinn Fein Party. The members of the 1st Irish Dail Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly now "officially" took over the responsibility for the Irish Volunteers, who now became known "Officially" as the Irish Republican Army / I.R.A.

 February 2nd: On this day, Michael Collins signed an " 11 point Agreement" with James Craig the leader of the "Official" Unionists, to try and protect the Irish population in the 6 Counties to be "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, also still under British Coalition Government control, but it was only to last for a week, until the Ascendancy "Official" Unionists there, were given "Special Powers" by the British Imperial Coalition Government.   

February:  The Longford Irish Volunteers / Irish Republican Army under the control of their commander, Sean Mac Eoin, in Co. Longford in the north - west of Northern Leinster, attacked a 20 British Imperial Government Military Force at Ballina, where they "killed" 3 of their forces there, and wounded another 12.

February 22nd: Another 3 British Imperial Government Forces were killed at Woodford in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht.

February 23rd: The British Imperial Government's Essex Regiment in Ireland, were also besieged by the Irish Republican Army, and some of their Military Forces were also "killed."

March: With their usual inhumane stupidity the British Imperial Coalition Government, proceeded to "hang" Patrick Moran and Thomas Whelan, along with 4 other Irishmen for "High Treason," and thousands of Irish men and women lined up outside the prison to pray for them after the British Imperial Government  were to bring in their hangman, a Mr. Ellis, all the way from England in a "tank," and "removed" him the same way, after he had carried out this terrible act for them. 

March 5th:  Colonel Cummings, one of the British Imperial Government commanders, was "killed" in a conflict with the Irish Republican Army at Clonbannin in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, along with 4 other British Imperial Government Military Forces.

March 7th: George Clancy, the Mayor of Limerick and Michael O Callaghan the previous Mayor of Limerick in Co. Limerick in the mid - west of the Munster Province, were also "murdered" in their homes in front of their wives by the British Imperial Government Forces, and Joseph O Donoghue who was an Irish Volunteer in Limerick was another who was also "murdered" in his house, while David Lloyd - George the British Imperial Coalition Prime Minister, continued to infer in the British Westminster Parliament, that they were all being "murdered" by their own Irish people.

     The British Imperial General Mac Ready, wanted to bring in British Martial Law all over Ireland, in an attempt to bring the rampant British Imperial Government's Dublin Castle R.I.C. / "Black & Tans" and their "Auxiliary Officers," who were a law unto themselves, under his Military control, as he wanted to try and bring about some "discipline" in their ranks, but the desperate David Lloyd - George the British Coalition Prime Minister and his Government "refused" his request and instead he sent out "letters" to all the "political" Sinn Fein Party Clubs, advising them that the British Imperial Government's Military Forces would soon carry out "official reprisals" against the Irish population. British Imperial Government Military Forces were then sent to Middleton in Co. Cork in Southern Munster to "destroy" 6 homes there belonging to purely innocent people, because they did not give any "information" to them of a previous raid carried out by the Irish Volunteers / Irish Republican Army, even though they personally had no such knowledge of that particular action.     

March 11th:  The 1st Dail Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly, met at Walter Cole's home again, were they repudiated the British Imperial Government's "Census" carried out on the population in Ireland, which had to be "abandoned" by the British Coalition Government, who then insisted that all Irish householders must have a "list," of all he people who were presently living in their "houses" pasted to their doors and all Irish "doctors" were also instructed to report any wounded Irish men or women that they had treated recently, which they naturally all ignored. 6 of the Irish Volunteers / Irish Republican Army were then "captured" in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province, and the British Imperial Military Forces, with their usual brutality, "cut out the tongue" from one of them, "cut the nose" off another, the "heart" out of another, and "battered" the fourth man's "head" in until there bodies were totally unrecognizable. 2 Irish brothers from the west, were also found  "tied" together in a "bog" with their legs nearly "burnt off," and in Co. Meath in the south - east of Northern Leinster another "young boy" was tied to the back of a "truck" and dragged behind it until his shattered body was actually torn to "pieces" and spread all over the area.

    The White Cross Association, set up in America, by Eamonn de Valera the Priomh Aire of the 1st Dail Eireann for the relief of "distress" in Ireland, was now also beginning to function, and Eammon de Valera now "publicly" laid claim to the Irish Volunteers as the I.R.A. / Irish Republican Army, on behalf of the 1st Dail Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly, and stated that their ambushes were "defensive" actions taken by the Irish population themselves against the continuing "inhuman cruelty" of the British Imperial Military Forces in Ireland.   

March 14th: The British Coalition Imperial Government, now also "executed" 6 of the I.R.B. / Irish Republican Brotherhood prisoners, they held in their "English Prisons," and 20,000 Irish people in Dublin came out in a mass demonstration of support for them, and publicly prayed for their souls. Sean Mac Eoin, the commander of the Irish Republican Army's Longford Brigade, was "captured" in Co. Longford in the north - west of Northern Leinster, but he was still able to "escape" although he was wounded, but he was then "retaken" within a very short time. At this time Patrick Cahill, was the commander of the Co. Kerry No 1 Irish Republican Army Brigade, Oscar Traynor was the commander of the Irish Republican Army Dublin Brigade, and Liam Lynch was the commander of the Irish Republican Army 1st Southern Division. The British Imperial Government Military Forces were now blatantly carrying out their "terrorism" on the general Irish populations in the "outer country" areas, where they felt they would meet the "least resistance," and many Irishwomen were visited during the nights, where they "chopped" off their hair, and they were also subjected to many other indignities by the British Imperial Government "Auxiliaries." Eileen Mac Grane / Mag Raighne, was among these Irishwomen, who was also put before a British Court Martial and "imprisoned," for having "old letters" from Michael Collins. Patrick Mac Mahon, the printer of the Young Ireland newspaper for Arthur Griffith, the original "Acting - President of the 1st Dail Eireann / 1st Irish Assembly," was sentenced to "long term" imprisonment, although he was not a well man, and the British Imperial Coalition Government extended the "Curfew" from 9 p.m. to 8.a.m.

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