page_title: Timeline of the Irish War of Independence
section_title: March 1920
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the Irish War of Independence / 1920 / March 1920
caption_attribution_description: English: "A Black and Tan on duty in Dublin..." ... smoking and posing with a Lewis gun. (Understood to be taken outside Hyne's Pub, on the corner of Gloucester Place and Railway Street, following the shooting of a Corporal Ryan [1]) Date: February 1921 NLI Ref.: HOGW 121
context_page_description: This is a timeline of the Irish War of Independence of 1919–21. The Irish War of Independence was a guerrilla conflict and most of the fighting was conducted on a small scale by the standards of conventional warfare.
  Although there were some large-scale encounters between the Irish Republican Army and the state forces of the United Kingdom, most of the casualties were inflicted in assassinations and reprisals on either side. The war began with an unauthorized ambush by IRA volunteers Dan Breen and Seán Treacy at Soloheadbeg in 1919 and officially ended with a truce agreed in July 1921. However, violence continued, particularly in the disputed territory of Northern Ireland, until mid-1922. In the rest of Ireland, the war was followed by the Irish Civil War between supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
context_section_description: 2 March 1920: British intelligence operative of Irish descent, John Charles Byrnes (alias "Jack Jameson"), was killed by "the Squad" in Dublin.
  3 March 1920: Frank Shawe-Taylor, land agent, was shot dead near Athenry, County Galway.
  5 March 1920: RIC Constable John Martin Heanue (aged 24) was shot dead as he called at a village grocers shop in Bouladuff, County Tipperary.
  9 March 1920: RIC Constable Thomas Ryan (aged 39) was fatally wounded during an IRA bomb attack on Hugginstown RIC barracks, County Kilkenny.
  10 March 1920: the IRA shot two RIC officers in a hotel in Rathkeale, County Limerick, killing Sergeant George Neazer (aged 42).
  11–12 March 1920: RIC Constable Timothy Scully (aged 64) was shot dead when his patrol was ambushed returning to barracks in Glanmire, County Cork. In reprisal, RIC officers attacked homes in Cork City.
  19 March 1920: RIC Constable Joseph Murtagh (aged 45) was shot dead in an IRA ambush in Cork city while he was returning from a colleague's funeral.
  20 March 1920: Tomás Mac Curtain, the Lord Mayor of Cork and commander of the IRA's 1st Cork Brigade, was shot dead in front of his wife at his home, by men with blackened faces later reportedly seen entering the local police barracks.
  24 March 1920: British intelligence operative of Irish descent, Frederick McNutley  alias British Army RASC clerk Brian Fergus Malloy was killed by "the Squad" in Dublin after he had tried to lead the IRA into a trap
  25 March 1920: The Black and Tans arrive in Ireland.
  26 March 1920: Resident Magistrate Alan Bell, aged 62, from Banagher, was assassinated. He was tasked by the British to track down Sinn Féin funds; he had successfully confiscated over £71,000 from Sinn Féin's HQ and, by investigating banks throughout the country, was set to seize much more. He was pulled from a tram in south Dublin and shot three times in the head.
  29 March 1920: Better Government of Ireland Bill was passed by 348 votes to 94 in Westminster.
  March 1920: West Limerick IRA volunteers killed a man for spying. This was the first such killing in the conflict.
caption: A Black and Tan in Dublin
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