The events on Bloody Sunday in Croke Park; the murder of members of the ‘Cairo Gang’ by Michael Collins’ ‘Squad; the execution of Kevin Barry and the ambush of the Black & Tans at Kilmichael loom large over the story of the War of Independence in November 1920. But what else happened during that month in Ireland 100 years ago? The pages of the Irish Newspaper Archive and Radical Newspaper Archive provide the answer.

  The events on Bloody Sunday on 21 November prompted a countrywide reaction from the British military and the police. Raids and arrests followed as the military swooped on any one with a connection to the republican movement or indeed those who they believed to be acting suspicious. In county Sligo, a group who were motoring near Sligo town were arrested on ‘suspicion’ of carrying out the work of the volunteers and included a Nurse Kerins, from Dublin; Dr Conlon of Geevagh; Professor McDavitt of Dublin; J Devins and M Flynn members of Sligo county council and others. Elsewhere the arrests made were of prominent Sinn Fein members and supports including P Lynch, chairman of the Bantry Urban Council; 36 men in Queenstown (Cobh); P Brazil, town clerk of Waterford, who was also a Sinn Fein organiser and election agent; Tipperary town councillors D Mackey and JP Cooney; Dr O’Connor of Listowel; Professor V O’Brien of Galway University and eight other men in the city; G Murnaghan, a solicitor in Omagh, and a labour leader called Cripps in Maryboro (now Portlaoise). Raids were carried out in nearly every town and village in the week following Bloody Sunday including five houses in Nenagh, eleven at Clonmel and upwards of 200 in other parts of Tipperary; forty in total in Kerry. In county Derry the offices of Mr Agnew, a solicitor, was raided in Maghera. In county Clare there were raids in Ennis, Ennistymon, Mullagh and Kildysart numbering in total 120.   Source : Irish Bulletin, 27 November 1920, page 5. IrishBulletin_27Nov1920pg5