The Irish War of Independence: The Violence Begins (TRIH ep 577, part 2)
1919 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by Professor Paul Rouse to trace the Irish revolutionary struggle from the 1916 Rising to the escalating violence of 1920. The episode centres on 21 January 1919 — the simultaneous founding of Dáil Éireann in Dublin and the Soloheadbeg ambush in Tipperary — and how those political and military moves shaped the early Irish War of Independence.
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Around 1919
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Great Depression (1929)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)