Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog died on 25 July 1959. Rabbi Herzog served as rabbi of Belfast from 1916 to 1919 and was appointed rabbi of Dublin in 1919. A fluent speaker of the Irish language, he supported the First Dáil and the Irish republican cause during the Irish War of Independence, and became known as "the Sinn Féin Rabbi". He went on to serve as Chief Rabbi of Ireland between 1922 and 1936.

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A ceasefire in the Irish War of Independence began on 11 July 1921. The post-ceasefire talks led to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921. This ended British rule in most of Ireland and, after a ten-month transitional period overseen by a provisional government, the Irish Free State was created as a self-governing Dominion on 6 December 1922.

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Briscoe was active in the IRA and Sinn Féin during the Irish War of Independence. He spoke for the Sinn Féin cause at public meetings there and was adamant that being a "Hebrew" did not lessen his Irishness. Briscoe was sent by Michael Collins to Germany in 1919 to be the chief agent for procuring arms for the IRA. After independence he was a TD in the Oireachtas for 38 years. 2/2

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Robert Emmet Briscoe died on 29 May 1969. He was a son of Abraham Briscoe and Ida Yoedicke, both of whom were Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants. The original family name in Lithuania is believed to have been Cherrick or Chasen. His brother Wolfe Tone Briscoe was named after Theobald Wolfe Tone. 1/2

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Absolutely thrilled that #TheWomanOnTheBridge has gone into the Irish bestseller list at No 5 this week. Proud to share the shelves with these fabulous authors! #HistoricalFiction #IrishWarOfIndependence #IrishCivilWar

If you’re looking for something to read this weekend my historical novel #TheWomanOnTheBridge is out now. Based on my grandmother’s life it’s set during the #irishwarofindependence and #irishcivilwar Although the setting is quite different from my contemporary novels, it’s still a book about people finding in er strength in unexpected circumstances. I’m really proud of it!

Sheila O’Flanagan: my Irish Times piece about the background to #TheWomanOnTheBridge #novel #irishwarofindependence #irishcivilwar

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/05/04/sheila-oflanagan-over-tea-at-the-gresham-gran-would-tell-me-about-bowsies-and-blackguards-checkpoints-and-raids/

On 28th April 2021 a public notice warned the people of Tipperary that 'a civilian with his hands in his pockets is necessarily an object of suspicion … and renders him liable to arrest and, in an emergency, runs the risk of coming under fire.'

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On the 27th April 1921 in Listowel, a proclamation was posted by the military stating that in future reprisals for any outbreak against the lives and property of officials would be taken against the property of selected persons without proof of their implication in the outrage.

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Maud Gonne MacBride (Irish: Maud Nic Ghoinn Bean Mhic Giolla Bhríghde) died on 27 April 1953. She was an English-born Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette and actress. Of Anglo-Irish descent, she was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight of evicted people in the Land Wars. She actively agitated for Home Rule and then for the republic declared in 1916. She was long-time love interest of WB Yeats.

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At the beginning of the Irish War of Independence, a general strike was organised by the Limerick Trades and Labour Council, as a protest against the British Army's declaration of a "Special Military Area" under the Defence of the Realm Act, which covered most of Limerick city and a part of the county. The soviet ran the city for the period, printed its own money and organised the supply of food. 2/2

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Come out ye black and tans
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On 25th March 1920 the first Black and Tans officially arrived in Ireland. They gained a reputation for brutality and became notorious for reprisal attacks on civilians and civilian property, including extrajudicial killings, arson and looting. Their actions further swayed Irish public opinion against British rule and drew condemnation in Britain.

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Tomás MacCurtain, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, was shot dead in front of his wife and son by a group of men with blackened faces on 20th March 1920. The murderers were subsequently found by the official inquest into the event to be members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. MacCurtain was also commandant of the Cork No. 1 Brigade of the IRA.

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Briscoe was active in the IRA and Sinn Féin during the Irish War of Independence. He spoke for the Sinn Féin cause at public meetings there and was adamant that being a "Hebrew" did not lessen his Irishness. Briscoe was sent by Michael Collins to Germany in 1919 to be the chief agent for procuring arms for the IRA.

After independence he was a TD in the Oireachtas for 38 years. 2/2

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Robert Emmet Briscoe died in Dublin on 11th March 1969. Briscoe was a son of Abraham Briscoe and Ida Yoedicke, both of whom were Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants. The original family name in Lithuania is believed to have been Cherrick or Chasen. His brother Wolfe Tone Briscoe was named after Theobald Wolfe Tone. 1/2

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On the night of 6th March 1921 The Lord Mayor of Limerick, George Clancy, his predecessor, Michael O’Callaghan, and another prominent nationalist, Joseph O’Donoghue, were killed by policemen in Limerick during curfew hours. Among Clancy's friends at the university were James Joyce and Clancey features as Michael Davin, in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

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The Irish War of Independence began on 21 January 1919. Sinn Féin TDs assembled in Dublin, forming the First Dáil and issuing the Irish Declaration of Independence. On the same day the Soloheadbeg ambush took place. IRA volunteers of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade led by Séumas Robinson and including Seán Treacy and Dan Breen, acting on their own initiative, ambushed and killed two RIC officers at Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary.

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Kevin Barry was born on 20 January 1902. He an 18 year old medical student who was executed in 1920 for his part in an attack upon a British Army supply lorry which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers. His execution inflamed nationalist public opinion in Ireland, largely because of his age.

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The first contingents of the Black and Tans began arriving in Ireland on 7th January 1920. Alongside the Auxiliaries, the Black and Tans went on to commit many of atrocities and terrorise the civilian population in Ireland.

https://www.theirishstory.com/2020/01/13/the-black-and-tans-and-auxiliaries-an-overview/

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