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Irish Free State offensive

Index Irish Free State offensive

The Irish Free State offensive of July–September 1922 was the decisive military stroke of the Irish Civil War. [1]

85 relations: Anglo-Irish Treaty, Battle of Dublin, Battle of Kilmallock, Bruff, Bruree, Carrick-on-Suir, Castlebar, Charles Fort (Ireland), Charleville, County Cork, Clew Bay, Clonmel, Connacht, Conventional warfare, Cork (city), Cornelius McNamara, County Clare, County Cork, County Kerry, County Mayo, County Sligo, County Tipperary, County Wexford, Donegal, Douglas, County Cork, Dublin, Dublin Guard, Dundalk, Emmet Dalton, Eoin Neeson, Eoin O'Duffy, Ernie O'Malley, Executions during the Irish Civil War, Fenit, Fermoy, Fourth Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army, Frank Aiken, George Gilmore, George Lennon, Glandore, Guerrilla phase of the Irish Civil War, Guerrilla warfare, Intracerebral hemorrhage, Ireland, Irish Civil War, Irish Free State, Irish Republic, Irish Republican Army, Irish Republican Army (1922–1969), Irish War of Independence, Joe McKelvey, ..., John T. Prout, Kilkenny, Kilmallock, Kilrush, Lancia 1ZM, Liam Deasy, Liam Lynch (Irish republican), Liam Mellows, Limerick, Michael Collins (Irish leader), Munster, Munster Republic, National Army (Ireland), Paddy Daly, Passage West, Richard Mulcahy, River Suir, Robert Erskine Childers, Rochestown, Rolls-Royce Armoured Car, Rory O'Connor (Irish republican), Royal Irish Constabulary, Seán Mac Eoin, SS Lady Wicklow, Strand Barracks, Tarbert, County Kerry, Timeline of the Irish Civil War, Tom Barry (soldier), Tralee, TSS Cambria (1897), W. R. E. Murphy, W. T. Cosgrave, Waterford, Westport, County Mayo, Youghal. Expand index (35 more) »

Anglo-Irish Treaty

The Anglo-Irish Treaty (An Conradh Angla-Éireannach), commonly known as The Treaty and officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was an agreement between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and representatives of the Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence.

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Battle of Dublin

The Battle of Dublin was a week of street battles in Dublin from 28 June to 5 July 1922 that marked the beginning of the Irish Civil War.

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Battle of Kilmallock

The Battle of Kilmallock took place between 25 July and 5 August 1922 in County Limerick.

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Bruff

Bruff is a town in east County Limerick, in the midwest of Ireland, located on the old Limerick–Cork road (R512).

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Bruree

Bruree is a village in south-eastern County Limerick, Ireland, on the River Maigue.

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Carrick-on-Suir

Carrick-on-Suir is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland.

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Castlebar

Castlebar is the county town of County Mayo, Ireland.

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Charles Fort (Ireland)

Charles Fort (Dún Chathail) is a star fort located on the water's edge, at the southern end of the village of Summer Cove, on Kinsale harbour, County Cork, Ireland.

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Charleville, County Cork

Charleville (Ráth Luirc or An Ráth) is a town in north County Cork, Ireland.

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Clew Bay

Clew Bay (Cuan Mó) is a natural ocean bay in County Mayo, Republic of Ireland.

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Clonmel

Clonmel is the county town and largest settlement of County Tipperary, Ireland.

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Connacht

ConnachtPage five of An tOrdú Logainmneacha (Contaetha agus Cúigí) 2003 clearly lists the official spellings of the names of the four provinces of the country with Connacht listed for both languages; when used without the term 'The province of' / 'Cúige'.

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Conventional warfare

Conventional warfare is a form of warfare conducted by using conventional weapons and battlefield tactics between two or more states in open confrontation.

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Cork (city)

Cork (from corcach, meaning "marsh") is a city in south-west Ireland, in the province of Munster, which had a population of 125,622 in 2016.

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Cornelius McNamara

Cornelius McNamara, better known as Connie (Mackey) Mc Namara, (6 April 1896 – 15 December 1957) was the Captain of "A" Company Active Service Unit of the Second Battalion Mid Limerick Brigade in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence.

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County Clare

County Clare (Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland, in the Mid-West Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the West by the Atlantic Ocean.

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County Cork

County Cork (Contae Chorcaí) is a county in Ireland.

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County Kerry

County Kerry (Contae Chiarraí) is a county in Ireland.

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County Mayo

County Mayo (Contae Mhaigh Eo, meaning "Plain of the yew trees") is a county in Ireland.

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County Sligo

County Sligo (Contae Shligigh) is a county in Ireland.

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County Tipperary

County Tipperary (Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland.

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County Wexford

County Wexford (Contae Loch Garman, Yola: Weiseforthe) is a county in Ireland.

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Donegal

Donegal or Donegal Town is a town in County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland.

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Douglas, County Cork

Douglas is a suburb of Cork city, Ireland and the name given to the Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland and Civil parish in which it is contained.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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Dublin Guard

The Dublin Guard was a unit of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and then of the Irish National Army in the ensuing Civil War.

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Dundalk

Dundalk is the county town of County Louth, Ireland.

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Emmet Dalton

Emmet Dalton MC (4 March 1898 – 4 March 1978) was an Irish soldier and film producer.

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Eoin Neeson

Eoin Neeson (13 September 1927 - 2 January 2011) was an Irish journalist, historian, novelist and playwright.

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Eoin O'Duffy

Eoin O'Duffy (Eoin Ó Dubhthaigh; born Owen Duffy, 28 January 1890 – 30 November 1944) was an Irish nationalist political activist, soldier and police commissioner.

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Ernie O'Malley

Ernie O'Malley (Earnán Ó Maille; born Ernest Bernard Malley; 26 May 1897 – 25 March 1957) was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) officer during the Irish War of Independence and a commander of the anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War.

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Executions during the Irish Civil War

The executions during the Irish Civil War took place during the guerrilla phase of the Irish Civil War (June 1922 – May 1923).

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Fenit

Fenit is a small village in County Kerry, Ireland, located on north side of Tralee Bay about west of Tralee town, just south of the Shannon Estuary.

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Fermoy

Fermoy is a town on the River Blackwater in east County Cork, Ireland.

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Fourth Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army

The Fourth Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army operated in an area covering parts of counties Louth, Armagh, Monaghan, and Down during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War.

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Frank Aiken

Francis Thomas Aiken (13 February 1898 – 18 May 1983) was an Irish politician who served as Tánaiste from 1965-69, Minister for External Affairs from 1957 to 1969 and 1951 to 1954, Minister for Finance from 1945 to 1948, Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures 1939 to 1945, Minister for Defence from 1932 to 1939 and Minister for Lands and Fisheries from June-November 1936.

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George Gilmore

George Gilmore (1898–1985) was a Protestant Irish Republican Army leader during the 1920s and 1930s.

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George Lennon

George Lennon (1900–1991) was an Irish Republican Army leader during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.

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Glandore

Glandore (meaning harbour of the gold or (Cuan Daire, meaning harbour of oak)) is the name of both a harbour and village in County Cork, Ireland.

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Guerrilla phase of the Irish Civil War

The guerrilla phase of the Irish Civil War began in August 1922, when the forces of the Irish Free State took all the fixed positions previously held by the Anti-Treaty IRA.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.

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Intracerebral hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, is a type of intracranial bleed that occurs within the brain tissue or ventricles.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Irish Civil War

The Irish Civil War (Cogadh Cathartha na hÉireann; 28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923) was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Empire.

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Irish Free State

The Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann; 6 December 192229 December 1937) was a state established in 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921.

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Irish Republic

The Irish Republic (Poblacht na hÉireann or Saorstát Éireann) was a revolutionary state that declared its independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in January 1919.

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Irish Republican Army

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is any of several paramilitary movements in Ireland in the 20th and 21st centuries dedicated to Irish republicanism, the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic.

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Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)

The original Irish Republican Army (IRA) fought a guerrilla war against British rule in Ireland in the Irish War of Independence between 1919 and 1921.

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Irish War of Independence

The Irish War of Independence (Cogadh na Saoirse) or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and the British security forces in Ireland.

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Joe McKelvey

Joe McKelvey (17 June 1898 – 8 December 1922) was an Irish Republican Army officer who was executed during the Irish Civil War.

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John T. Prout

John T. Prout (October 25, 1880 – April 27, 1969) was an American and Irish soldier.

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Kilkenny

Kilkenny.

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Kilmallock

Kilmallock is a town in south County Limerick, Ireland, near the border with County Cork.

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Kilrush

Kilrush is a coastal town in County Clare, Ireland.

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Lancia 1ZM

The Lancia 1Z and the Lancia 1ZM were two variations of an Italian armoured car built during World War I and which saw limited service during that war, the interwar period, and during World War II.

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Liam Deasy

Liam Deasy (1898 – 1974) was an Irish Republican Army officer in the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War of the 1920s.

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Liam Lynch (Irish republican)

Liam Lynch (Liam Ó Loingsigh; 9 November 1893 – 10 April 1923) was an officer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and the commanding general of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish Civil War.

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Liam Mellows

Liam (William Joseph) Mellows (Irish:Liam Ó Maoilíosa, 25 May 1892 – 8 December 1922; surname often misspelled as Mellowes) was an Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician.

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Limerick

Limerick (Luimneach) is a city in County Limerick, Ireland.

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Michael Collins (Irish leader)

Michael Collins (Mícheál Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th-century Irish struggle for independence.

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Munster

Munster (an Mhumhain / Cúige Mumhan,.

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Munster Republic

The Munster Republic was an informal and affectionate term used by Irish republicans to refer to the territory they held in the province of Munster at the start of the Irish Civil War.

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National Army (Ireland)

The National Army, sometimes unofficially referred to as the Free State army or the Regulars, was the army of the Irish Free State from January 1922 until October 1924.

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Paddy Daly

Paddy Daly (1888–1957) sometimes referred to as Paddy O'Daly, served in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and subsequently held the rank of major-general in the Irish National Army from 1922 to 1924.

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Passage West

Passage West (informally called "Passage") is a port town in County Cork, Ireland, situated on the west bank of Cork Harbour, some 10 km south east of Cork city.

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Richard Mulcahy

Richard James Mulcahy (10 May 1886 – 16 December 1971) was an Irish Fine Gael politician and army general who served as Minister for Education from 1954 to 1957 and 1948 to 1951, Minister for the Gaeltacht from June 1956 to October 1956, Leader of the Opposition from 1944 to 1948, Leader of Fine Gael from 1944 to 1959, Minister for Local Government and Public Health from 1927 to 1932, Minister for Defence from 1922 to 1924 and January 1919 to April 1919.

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River Suir

The River Suir (Irish An tSiúr or Abhainn na Siúire) is a river in Ireland that flows into the Atlantic Ocean near Waterford after a distance of.

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Robert Erskine Childers

Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), universally known as Erskine Childers, was an Irish writer, whose works included the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands, and a Fenian revolutionary who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard.

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Rochestown

Rochestown is a primarily residential area in the suburbs of Cork City, Ireland.

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Rolls-Royce Armoured Car

The Rolls-Royce Armoured Car was a British armoured car developed in 1914 and used during the First World War, the inter-war period in Imperial Air Control in Transjordan, Palestine and Mesopotamia, and in the early stages of the Second World War in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Rory O'Connor (Irish republican)

Rory O'Connor (Ruairí Ó Conchubhair; 28 November 1883 – 8 December 1922) was an Irish republican activist.

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Royal Irish Constabulary

The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC, Irish: Constáblacht Ríoga na hÉireann; simply called the Irish Constabulary 1836–67) was the police force in Ireland from the early nineteenth century until 1922.

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Seán Mac Eoin

Seán Mac Eoin (30 September 1893 – 7 July 1973) was an Irish Fine Gael politician and soldier.

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SS Lady Wicklow

SS Lady Wicklow was a steamship built in 1890 in Belfast, Ireland for the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company.

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Strand Barracks

The Strand Barracks is the former army barracks on Clancy's Strand in Limerick city, Ireland.

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Tarbert, County Kerry

Tarbert (from an Old Irish term meaning "draw-boat", i.e. portage) is a town in the north of County Kerry, with woodland to the south and the Shannon estuary to the north.

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Timeline of the Irish Civil War

This is a timeline of the Irish Civil War, which took place between June 1922 and May 1923.

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Tom Barry (soldier)

Thomas (Tom) Barry (1 July 1897 – 2 July 1980) was a prominent guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence, when he was commander of the 3rd West Cork Flying Column.

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Tralee

Tralee is the county town of County Kerry in the south-west of Ireland.

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TSS Cambria (1897)

TSS Cambria was a twin screw steamer passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1897 to 1923.

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W. R. E. Murphy

William Richard English-Murphy, DSO MC known as W.R.E. Murphy (1890–1975) was an Irish soldier and policeman.

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W. T. Cosgrave

William Thomas Cosgrave (6 June 1880 – 16 November 1965) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as President of the Executive Council from 1922 to 1932, Leader of the Opposition from 1932 to 1944, Leader of Fine Gael from 1934 to 1944, Leader of Cumann na nGaedheal from 1923 to 1933, Chairman of the Provisional Government from August 1922 to December 1922, President of Dáil Éireann from September 1922 to December 1922, Minister for Finance from 1922 to 1923 and Minister for Local Government from 1919 to 1922.

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Waterford

Waterford (from Old Norse Veðrafjǫrðr, meaning "ram (wether) fjord") is a city in Ireland.

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Westport, County Mayo

Westport (historically anglicised as Cahernamart) is a town in County Mayo in Ireland.

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Youghal

Youghal is a seaside resort town in County Cork, Ireland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_State_offensive

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