The years between the Easter Rising of 1916 and the beginning of the War of Independence in 1919 were not bloodless. Thomas Ashe, one of the Volunteer leaders imprisoned for his role in the 1916 rebellion, died on hunger strike, after attempted force-feeding in 1917. In 1918, during disturbances arising out of the anti-conscription campaign, six civilians died in confrontations with the police and British Army and over 1,000 were arrested. Armistice Day was marked by severe rioting in Dublin, which left over 100 British soldiers injured. There were also raids for arms by the Volunteers, at least one shooting of a Royal Irish Constabulary  policeman and the burning of an RIC barracks in Kerry. In Co. Cork, four rifles were seized from the Eyeries barracks in March 1918 and men from the barracks were beaten that August. In early July 1918, Volunteers ambushed two RIC men who had been stationed to stop a feis being held on the road between Ballingeary and Ballyvourney in the first armed attack on the RIC since the Easter Rising - one was shot in the neck, the other beaten, and police carbines and ammunition were seized. Patrols in Bantry and Ballyvourney were badly beaten in September and October. The attacks brought a British military presence from the summer of 1918, which only briefly quelled the violence, and an increase in police raids. However, there was as yet no co-ordinated armed campaign against British forces or RIC.

Question: How many years elapsed between the Easter Rising and the start of the War of Independence?
Answer: 3

Question: When did Thomas Ashe die?
Answer: 1917

Question: Roughly how many civilians were arrested in confrontations with the police and British army?
Answer: 1000

Question: How many RIC men were shot in the neck?
Answer: 1

Question: How many years were there between the Easter Rising of 1916 and the beginning of the War of Independence in 1919?
Answer: 3

Question: Why was Thomas Ashe imprisoned?
Answer: for his role in the 1916 rebellion

Question: Which event happened first, Armistice Day or the War of Independence in 1919?
Answer: Armistice Day

Question: How many years did these events span for?
Answer: 2

Question: How many years was it from Easter Rising to the War of Independence?
Answer: 3

Question: How many civilians died in confrontations on the frontiness?
Answer: 6

Question: How many more people were arrested than died?
Answer: 994

Question: What happened first, the raids for arms by the Volunteers or  Volunteers ambushed two RIC men?
Answer: raids for arms by the Volunteers

Question: How many years between the Easter Rising and the War of Independence?
Answer: 3

Question: What happened first: the Easter Rising or the War of Independence?
Answer: the Easter Rising

Question: What happened second: the Easter Rising or the War of Independence?
Answer: the War of Independence

Question: What happened first: Thomas Ashe dying of hunger strike or volunteers ambushed two RIC men?
Answer: Thomas Ashe dying of hunger strike

Question: What happened second: Thomas Ashe dying of hunger strike or volunteers ambushed two RIC men?
Answer: Volunteers ambushed two RIC men

Question: How many civilians died and were arrested in the confrontations with the police and British Army, in total?
Answer: 1006

Question: How many months after four rifles were seized from the Eyeries barracks were the two RIC men who had been stationed to stop a feis being held on the road between Ballingeary and Ballyvourney?
Answer: 4

Question: How many years were between the Easter Rising and the beginning of the War of Independence?
Answer: 3

Question: Which happened first, the Easter Rising or the War of Independence?
Answer: the Easter Rising

Question: How many years after Thomas Ashe was arrested did he die?
Answer: 1

Question: How many months after four rifles were seized from the Eyeries barracks were men from the barracks beaten?
Answer: 5