![]() ![]() Sinn Féin TDs assembled in Dublin forming the First Dáil and adopted a Declaration of Independence.In the rest of Ireland, the war was followed by the Irish Civil War between supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. ![]() However, violence continued, particularly in the disputed territory of Northern Ireland, until mid-1922. The war began with an unauthorized ambush by IRA volunteers Dan Breen and Seán Treacy at Soloheadbeg in 1919 and officially ended with a truce agreed in July 1921. ![]() ![]() Although there were some large-scale encounters between the Irish Republican Army and the state forces of the United Kingdom ( Royal Irish Constabulary and Dublin Metropolitan Police paramilitary units-the Black and Tans and the Auxiliary Division-and the regular British Army), most of the casualties were inflicted in assassinations and reprisals on either side. The Irish War of Independence was a guerrilla conflict and most of the fighting was conducted on a small scale by the standards of conventional warfare. This is a timeline of the Irish War of Independence (or the Anglo-Irish War ) of 1919–1921. ![]()
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