Dáil Éireann meets for the first time in the Mansion House, Dublin

Quando

21 de jan. de 1919

Tipo

Evento

Coordenadas

52.52° N, 8.16° W

Posicionado em: coordinates of the event it links, Soloheadbeg ambush.

Dáil Éireann meets for the first time in the Mansion House, Dublin. It comprises Sinn Féin members elected in the 1918 general election who, in accordance with their manifesto, have not taken their seats in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, but chosen to declare an independent Irish Republic. In the first shots of the Anglo-Irish War, two Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) men are killed in an ambush at Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary.

1919 IRA attack on Irish police

The Soloheadbeg ambush took place on 21 January 1919, when members of the Irish Volunteers, ambushed Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) officers who were escorting a consignment of gelignite explosives at Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary. Two RIC officers were killed and their weapons and the explosives were stolen. The Volunteers acted on their own initiative and had not sought authorisation for their action.

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