Soloheadbeg ambush
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title:
Soloheadbeg ambush
text:
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. As it happened on the same day that the revolutionary Irish parliament first met and declared
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description:
1919 IRA attack on Irish police
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soloheadbeg_ambush
date created:
2013-06-09T21:12:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T20:28:23Z
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