- The
Soloheadbeg ambush took
place on 21
January 1919, when
members of the
Irish Volunteers (or
Irish Republican Army [IRA])
ambushed Royal Irish Constabulary...
-
Sologheadbeg or
Soloheadbeg (/ˌsɒləhədˈbɛɡ/; from
Irish Sulchóid Bheag, IPA:[ˈsˠʊləxoːdʲˈvʲaɡ]) is a
townland and
civil parish in
County Tipperary, Ireland...
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planned what was to be the
first act of the
Irish War of Independence, the
Soloheadbeg Ambush. In the
early part of the war, four
members of the
brigade were...
- (RIC)
escorting a
cartload of
gelignite were
killed in the
Tipperary Soloheadbeg Ambush,
carried out by
members of the 3rd
Tipperary Brigade of the Irish...
- Born John
Allis Treacy, he came from a small-farming
background in
Soloheadbeg in west
Tipperary and grew up in Hollyford. He was the son of farmer...
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declared Irish independence. That day, two RIC
officers were
killed in the
Soloheadbeg ambush by IRA
volunteers acting on
their own initiative. The conflict...
- constables,
James McDonnell and
Patrick O'Connell, were
killed when the
Soloheadbeg Ambush was
carried out by a
group of
volunteers from the
Third Tipperary...
-
Independence started with some
haphazard shootings on the same day at
Soloheadbeg,
County Tipperary, it was
treated by the
British as a
police matter....
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described himself as "a
soldier first and foremost"—took part in the
Soloheadbeg ambush. The
ambush party of
eight men, led by Séumas Robinson, attacked...
- the
Irish Republican Army
Irish Republican Police The
Squad Actions Soloheadbeg ambush Rescue at
Knocklong Listowel mutiny Rineen ambush Tooreen ambush...
