Captain Con Murphy from near Millstreet, County Cork is executed by British authorities, the first man to be executed in front of a firing squad since the 1916 Rising.
5 March – Irish War of Independence: Clonbanin Ambush: Irish Republican Army kills Brigadier GeneralCumming.
16–17 March – Irish War of Independence: Irish Republican Army kills two Royal Irish Constabulary constables in Clifden; Black and Tans, called in, kill one civilian, seriously injure another, burn 14 houses and damage several others.[1]
19 March – Irish War of Independence: Crossbarry Ambush: British troops fail to encircle an outnumbered column of Irish Republican Army volunteers in County Cork, with at least ten British and three IRA deaths.
21 March – Irish War of Independence: Headford Ambush: Irish Republican Army kills at least nine British troops.[2]
25 May – Irish War of Independence: The Irish Republican Army occupies and burns The Custom House in Dublin, the centre of local government in Ireland. Five IRA men are killed and over eighty captured by the British Army which surrounds the building.[5]
20 June – Irish War of Independence: British Major-General Lambert dies at Athlone of a gunshot wound sustained in an IRA ambush; early on 2 July six farmhouses in the area are burned apparently in retaliation and the following day the IRA, in turn, burn down Moydrum Castle.[6][7]
10 July – Bloody Sunday: Clashes between Catholics and Protestants in Belfast result in 16 deaths (23 over the surrounding four-day period) and the destruction of over 200 (mostly Catholic) homes.[9]
11 July – under the terms of the truce (signed on 9 July) which becomes effective at noon, the British Army agrees that there will be no provocative display of forces or incoming troops. The Irish Republican Army agrees that attacks on Crown forces will cease.
21 July - The Belfast Pogrom begins with the one day removal of thousands of Belfast shipyard, factory and mill workers from their jobs.
1 November – Frances Kyle and Averil Deverell are called to the Bar of Ireland, becoming the first female barristers in the British Isles.
6 December – agreement is reached in the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations in London. The main points include the creation of an Irish Free State within the Commonwealth, an Oath of Allegiance to the Crown, and retention by the British naval services of the use of certain ports.
December – Éamon de Valera accuses the delegation to London of having ignored its instructions. Arthur Griffith accuses de Valera of knowing at the time that a Republic could not be achieved.
24 February – Terence MacSwiney's play The Revolutionist (set and published in 1914) has its stage premiere posthumously at the Abbey Theatre.[11] His writings Principles of Freedom are collected from Irish Freedom (1911–12) and published this year also.
Ina Boyle's pastoral for orchestra Colin Clout is premiered.
George Moore publishes the novel Heloise and Abelard.
L. A. G. Strong publishes the poetry Dublin Days (in Oxford).
^Villiers-Tuthill, Kathleen (2006). Beyond the Twelve Bens — a history of Clifden and district 1860-1923. Connemara Girl Publications. pp. 177, 209–213. ISBN 978-0-9530455-1-8.
^O'Halpin, Eunan & Ó Corráin, Daithí (2020), The Dead of the Irish Revolution, Yale University Press, pgs 350-352
^Statutory Rules & Orders published by authority, 1921, No. 533
^Jackson, Alvin (2004). Home Rule – An Irish History. Oxford University Press. p. 198.
^Foy, Michael T. (2006). Michael Collins's Intelligence War: the struggle between the British and the IRA, 1919–1921. Stroud: Sutton. pp. 214–218. ISBN 0-7509-4267-3.
^O'Halpin, Eunan; Corrain, Daithi O. (2020). The Dead of the Irish Revolution. Yale University Press. p. 487. ISBN 978-0-300-12382-1.
^"The burning of Moydrum Castle". Westmeath Independent. 21 October 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
^Ward, Alan J. (1994). The Irish Constitutional Tradition: Responsible Government and Modern Ireland 1782–1922. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America. pp. 103–110. ISBN 0-8132-0793-2.
^"Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 28 January 2010.
^Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 490–491. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ ab"Playography Ireland". Dublin: Irish Theatre Institute. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
External linksedit
"Sport in 1921: A tumultuous year at home and abroad", RTÉ.