booklet 3- war on independence

Question 1

when did SF summon 105MPS to the Mansion House

Answer 1

21st January 1919

Question 2

When was De Valera elected President of the SF and a Cabinet was appointed?

Answer 2

1st April 1919

Question 3

When was the RIC Boycott?

Answer 3

April 10th 1919

Question 4

When did the Dail set up a court system

Answer 4

June 1921

Question 5

When did the first meeting of the Dail take place?

Answer 5

21st January 1919

Question 6

When did the Volunteer journal An tOglach declare a “state of war” between England and Ireland?

Answer 6

31st January 1919

Question 7

When was RIC District Inspector Hunt assassinated?

Answer 7

23rd June 1919

Question 8

When were 2 more constables killed in Co Clare

Answer 8

August 1919

Question 9

When did Liam Lynch lead an assault on 18 soldiers?

Answer 9

7th September 1919

Question 10

When was Lord French targeted in an ambush in Ashtown, Co. Dublin?

Answer 10

19th December 1919

Question 11

When was Detective Sergeant Harry Smith gunned down?

Answer 11

30th July 1919

Question 12

When was the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act?

Answer 12

August 1920

Question 13

When was SF, Volunteers & Gaelic League declared illegal?

Answer 13

July 1919

Question 14

When was the Dail proclaimed an illegal body?

Answer 14

September 1919

Question 15

When did the RIC murder the Commandant of the local IRA brigade?

Answer 15

Cork: March 1920

Question 16

When did the IRA GHQ order a nationwide assault?

Answer 16

3-4th April 1920

Question 17

When was the bonfire celebrating the release of SF prisoners attacked by Crown Forces?

Answer 17

April 1920

Question 18

When was the Munitions Strike?

Answer 18

May- November 1920

Question 19

When was Knocklong Creamery destroyed by Crown Forces?

Answer 19

Limerick: August 1920

Question 20

When did a lorry load of Tans sweep into Balbriggan in Dublin in a reprisal attack?

Answer 20

September 1920

Question 21

When was Terence MacSwiney imprisoned?

Answer 21

August-October 1920

Question 22

When was the execution of Kevin Barry?

Answer 22

1st November 1920

Question 23

When was Bloody Sunday?

Answer 23

21st November 1920

Question 24

When was the West Cork Brigade of the IRA Flying Column ambushed?

Answer 24

28th November 1920

Question 25

When did Auxiliaries set fire to Patrick Street?

Answer 25

11th December 1920

Question 26

When was the Bounty on Collins set?

Answer 26

21st January 1920

Question 27

When was the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act

Answer 27

12th August 1920

Question 28

When was the Truce Offer + Martial Law?

Answer 28

December 1920

Question 29

When was the Burning of the Dublin Customs House?

Answer 29

May 1921

Question 30

When did De Valera return from the US

Answer 30

23rd December 1920

Question 31

When was Lloyd George's initial proposals delivered to De Valera?

Answer 31

20th July 1921

Question 32

When did De Valera and the Dail officially reject Lloyd George's Offer

Answer 32

10th August 1921

Question 33

When were the negotiations by the Delegation?

Answer 33

11th October- 6th December 1921

Question 34

When did the Irish delegation concede the demand to the title "republic"?

Answer 34

24th October 1921

Question 35

When did the Irish delegation try to force a break over Ulster?

Answer 35

5th December 1921

Question 36

When did the Dail accept the Treaty?

Answer 36

6th January 1922

Question 37

When was de Valera's speech in Co. Tipperary?

Answer 37

St Patricks Day 1922

Question 38

When did anti-Treaty officers write to Mulcachy?

Answer 38

12th January 1922

Question 39

When was the IRA Convention March?

Answer 39

26th March 1922

Question 40

When did Rory O'Connor lead a group of hardline anti-Treaty IRA men into the Four Courts in defiance of the Provisional Government?

Answer 40

14th April 1922

Question 41

When did Collins & De Valera agree on a "pact" for the upcoming election in June whereby SF would run both pro and anti-Treaty candidates?

Answer 41

20th May 1922

Question 42

When did 2 IRA gunmen assassinate Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson?

Answer 42

22nd June 1922

Question 43

When was Anti-Treaty Leo Henderson arrested?

Answer 43

26th June 1922

Question 44

When was the Battle of Dublin?

Answer 44

28th June- 5th July 1922

Question 45

When was a council of war appointed?

Answer 45

12th July 1922

Question 46

When was the Battle for Munster?

Answer 46

July-August 1922

Question 47

When was the Guerrilla War?

Answer 47

August 1922- May 1923

Question 48

When was Sean Hales TD assassinated in Dublin

Answer 48

7th December 1922