Evening star., 1921-12-07
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PrebB.
Following is chronology OF i'm
portant events in Ireland from the
Easter rebellion of 1916 up to the
truce of July II. 1921. between the
Sim Fein and crown forces and the
negotiations between Premier Lloyd
George, Sir James Craig Of Ulster and
Eamonn De Valera, the Irish republi-
can leader, looking to the establish
ment of peace:
April 25-Revolt in Dublin: 1so
civilians killed and 614 wounded: Sim
Fein or Irish republican flag raised
over Dublin post office: Ireland pro-
claimed a republic and Patrick Pearse
designated provisional president.
April 30--Martial law declared; rev.
olutionaries driven out of st. Ste
phen's Green; 707 prisoners, including
the Countess Markievicz. taken by
crown forces. Property damage esti-
mated at $10.000.000.
May 2-Seven Dublin leaders. in
cIuding Provisional President Pearse,
executed. Sixteen are sent to prison
for life.
May 11-Seven more Sim Fein lead
ers executed: seventy-nine sent to
prison and 1,706 deported; 10000 Brit
ISM troops sent 10 lTeldhu
May 17-Sir Roger Easement tried
for high treason: hanged in Penton-
vile prison on August 3.
1917.
February 22-Sinn Feiners just
freed from internment in England are
seized by authorities in wholesale
raids throughout Ireland.
~ June 12-Irish prisoners in intern
ment camp at Lewes, Sussex. mutiny.
October 1o-Lloyd George in house
of commons charges plot for new
Irish revolt to be aided by Won Bern
storff.
May 6-De Valera addresses anti
conscription meeting at Ballaghade-
reen.
American support of nationaiists and
condemns Sim Fein.
June 21-Irish republic formally
proclaimed by dali eireann. or Irish
parliament, in Dublin.
1919.
March 3O-Twenty Sim Feiners
escape from Mountjoy prison.
British Flag Burned.
June 29-Sinn Feiners burn British
flag in Dublin street: similar demon
strations in other Irish cities.
September 12-Suppression Of dali
eireann and all other Sim Fein or
ganizations ordered by British gov
ernment.
December 19-Viscount French. lord
lieutenant of Ireland. ambushed while
travelling along country road, escapes
assassination: one killed, two wound
ed.
n
Sinn Feiners raid police barracks at
Carrigtohill and later destroy them
with dynamite: fourteen policemen
killed. British government offers $780,
900 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; 15,Ooo follow pody
to the grave.
June S-British troops in ireland
increased to 10000.
July 25-Seventeen persons killed
and many wounded in Belfast riots.
August Announcement of passage
of Irish coercion bin Is followed by
resignation of 1872 Irish magistrates
holding British corSnissions.
August 15-Lord Mayor MacSwiney
of Cork and ten Sim Fein associates,
convicted of sedition, start hunger
strike in Brixton prison.
August 22-Loyalists sack town of
Lisburn, Ireland, and burn Sinn Fein
houses and shops. Loss. $2,5OO.O0O.
August 31-Belfast rioting renewed;
ffty-two persons killed; 214 fires in
sSeptember -Four hundred anti
Sim Fein Irish police threaten to re-
sign If Lord Mayor MacSwiney is re-
leased.
roiHorc. Fl non 000 loss
october 25-Lord Mayor MacSwiney
dies on seventy-fourth day Of his
hunger strike.
october so-Cardinal Logue rebukes
"persons engaged in fomenting re-
belIion in Iriland."
November 17-Committee OF loo IN
washinrton starts "to investigate and
renort on conditions in Ireland"
"a killed In Dublin Roundup.
November 21-Foot ball throng IN
croke park, Dublin, fired upon by
nolice in roundup of Sim Fein su-
spects: rs killed and 10 wounded.
November 26-Arthur Griffith and
other Sinn Fein leaders arrested and
sent to Mountjoy prison.
November 2s-Eighteen fires and
s5,oooooo am damags Hsin sYmnathizsrs IN hxespool
nolicemen or cadets" killed in am
bush near Kilmichael and many
towns burned in reprisal.
December 12-Fires in Cork destroy
city hall, library and eighteen other
public buildings with loss of more
than s1O,000.000; 800 other buildings
wrecked and looted by masked bands
of men.
masses new home rule bill providing
FOR northern and Southern parlia-
ments in Ireland and giving both
factions three and one-half years to
accept.
1871
January 18-David Kent, Sinn Fein
member of British parliaments, Is ar.
rested; II Sim Fein members Of par
lament now in jail.
January 19-Irish labor party
blames Cork fires on military alone.
February 12-Pope Benedict con-
dennis bloodshed in Ireland; sympa-
thizes with the people.
February 14-De Valera addresses
[dail 'eireann.. telling of British truce