The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-06
A. the Associated Press


portant events in Ireland from the
Easter rebellion of 1915 up to the
truce of July II, 1921. between the
! Sim Fem and crown forces and the
NEGOTIATIONS between Premier Lloyd
George. Sir James Craig of Ulster and
Eamonn de Valera, the Irish Repub-
| lican leader, looking to the establish
ment of peace:
| April 25-Revolt in Dublin; $50
civilians killed and GA wounded; Sim
/ Fem or Irish Republican flag, raised
1 over Dublin postOffice; Ireland pro-
/ claimed a republic and Patrick Pearse
! designated provisional president
| April 30-Martial law declared;
! revolutionaries driven out of St.
| Stephens Green; 707 prisoners, in
| cluding the Countess Markievicz. taken
, by crown forces; Property damage es-
/ timated at S10,O00,000.
| May 2-Seven Dublin leaders in
Guiding Provisional President Pearse,
! executed. Sixteen are sent to prison
/ for life.
May 11-Seven more Sim Fem
leaders executed; 70 sent to prison and
| 1.7O6 deported; 10000 British troops
sent to Ireland.
May 17-Sir Roger Easement tried
for high treason; hanged in Penton-
vile prison on August 5.
1917.
February 22-Sinn Feiners just
/ freed from internment IN England are
seized by authorities in wholesale
raids thruout Ireland
| June 12-Irish prisoners in intern
ment camp at Lewes, Sussex. mutiny.
| October 1O-Lloyd George in house
of commons charges plot To- new irish
revolt to be aided by Won Bernstorff.
1918.
| Z
consumption meeting at Ballaghade-
May 22-John Dillon appeals for
American support of Nationalist and
condemns Sim Fem.
June 21-Irish republic formally
proclaimed by Dali Eireann, or Irish
parliament in Dublin.
1919.
| March SO-Twenty Sim Feiners es-
cape from Mountjoy. prison.
June 29-Sinn Fefners burn British
flag in Dublin street; similar demon
STATIONS in other Irish cities.
September 12-Suppression of Dali
Eireann and all other Sim Fein or
CARNATIONS ordered by British govern
December 19-viscount French.
llord lieutenant of Ireland, ambushed
while travelling along country road,
escapes assassination; one killed, two
wounded.
1920
Jan. Three hundred armed Sim
| Feiners raid police barracks at CarriS-
tohill and later destroy them with dy-
Mantle; 4 policemen killed. British
government offers $4,000 reward for
capture of raiders.
March 21-Thomas MacCurtain,
lord mayor of Cork, shot to death
and Mrs. MacCurtain wounded by
armed men in their home; $4,000 fol
low body to the grave.
June 6-British troops in Ireland
increased to $4,000.
July 25-Seventeen persons killed
and many wounded in Belfast riots.
Aug. 4-Announcement of passage
of Irish Coercion bill is followed by
resignation of 1872 Irish magistrates
holding British commissions.
Aug 15-Lord Mayor MacSwiney
of Cork and ten Sim Fem associates,
convicted of sedition. start hunger
strike in Brixton prison.
Aug. 22-Loyalists sack town of Lis
burn, Ireland and burn Sim Fein
houses and shops. Loss $2,500,000.
Aug. 31-Belfast rioting renewed
So persons killed: 214 fires in six days.
Sept. -Four hundred anti Sim
Fem Irish police threaten to resign if
Lord Mayor MacSwiney is released.
Sept. 21-Balbriggan wrecked and
burned by raiders; 100000 loss.
Oct 25-LOrd Mayor MacSwiney
dies on 74th day of his hunger strike
Oct. 30-Cardinal Logue rebuke>
persons engaged in fomenting rebil-
lion in Ireland"
Nov. 17-Committee of one hundred
in Washington starts ito investigate
and report on conditions in Ireland"
Nov. 21-Footbau throng in Crokc
Park, Dublin, fired upon by police il
roundup of Sim Fein suspects; 26
killed and 20 wounded.
! Arfl ri of
Sim Fein leaders arrested and sent t.
MountjOy prison.
Nov. 28-Eighteen fires and S.
100000 damage in Liverpool charged
to Sim Fem sympathizers.
Nov. 29-Fifteen auxiliary police
men or cadets" killed in ambush neal
Kilmichael and many towns burned
in reprisal.
Dec. 12-Fires in Cork destroy cit
hall. library and eighteen other publ,
buildings with loss of more than $40,
100000; 800 other buildings wreckes
and looted by masked bands of men.
? Dec. blouse of commons passes
new home rule bill providing TO
northern and southern parliaments il
ireland and giving both factions thre,
and one-half years to accept
1921.
Jan. 1S.-David Kent. Slim Fol,
, member of British parliament. is ar
t rested; seventeen Sim Fem NJ. p
now in Jail.
Jan. 19-Irish labor party blame
: Cork fires on military alone.
) Feb. 12-Pope Benedict condemn
: bloodshed in Ireland; sympathize
with the people
I Feb. 14-De Valera addresses Dai
: Eireann telling of British truce nego
uauons and later denounces crow
: forces in letter to parliament.
Feb. 21-Six Sim Feiners execute
in Cork Jail; Archbishop walsh pro
, tests.
March S-Lloyd George SAYS he
J willing to meet Irish representative
IN a peace parley but bars guilt
| Sim Feiners"
March Michael O'Cal1agbsr
former mayor of Limerick. shot 5ea,
in bed by masked men.
March 14-Six more Irish prison
ers executed in Mountjoy prison.
March 1s-Irish Catholics of Lon