There were no injuries. Other articles where Irish Civil War is discussed: Irish Republican Army: The ensuing Irish civil war (1922–23) ended with the capitulation of the Irregulars; however, they neither surrendered their arms nor disbanded. This is a timeline of the Irish Civil War, which took place between June 1922 and May 1923.It followed the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921), and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State as an entity independent from the United Kingdom.. 15 December 1991: an IRA incendiary device partially exploded in, 16 December 1991: the IRA detonated a bomb on a railway line near. 28 May 1991: IRA members opened fire on the car of a Protestant woman in Pomeroy, County Tyrone. 20 August 1992: British soldiers were injured in an IRA bomb attack at Harrield Street, Belfast. 23 May 1994: the IRA used a motor boat stolen from Foyle Search and Rescue Service to cross. The firing mechanism was disabled and a warning phoned in. In fact the British cabinet actually resolved to attack the Four Courts themselves on 25 June, in an operation that would have involved tanks, howitzers and aeroplanes. The war started with the anti-treaty forces holding Cork, Limerick and Waterford as part of a self-styled independent “Munster Republic”. Two civilians were injured. Many of their fighters were armed only with shotguns. The conflict was rooted in disagreement over the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which was narrowly endorsed by Dáil Éireann by 64 – 57 votes on the 7th January 1922. Several homes were also damaged including one belonging to the MP for Newry and Armagh. The Irish Civil War 1922-1923. 25 April 1991: a small IRA bomb exploded inside the Europa hotel, Belfast. 12 January 1994: a female British soldier was shot twice and wounded by an IRA sniper in the New Lodge area of Belfast. 12 December 1992: an IRA unit attacked a British Army watchtower—the Crossmaglen RUC Station and Army Barracks, also known as the Borucki Sanger Golf Five Zero—with an improvised flamethrower towed by a tractor in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. 19 December 1993: an IRA landmine attack on a British patrol in Derry left six civilians - three adults and two children near the device - in need of hospital treatment. 14 February 1991: a UDR soldier was seriously wounded when a Saint Valentine's Day card bomb which he had received exploded in, 15 February 1991: the IRA attempted to shoot down another Lynx helicopter that was extracting men from the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment after a border patrol from, 23 February 1991: a dozen-strong IRA unit launched a mortar and machine gun assault from a vantage point on a newly-built British Army outpost at Fosters Mountain at, 1 March 1991: two UDR soldiers were killed in an IRA ambush on Killylea Road in Armagh town. 30 December 1992: an IRA incendiary bomb exploded at a hotel in County Fermanagh. Responsibility for the killing was claimed by Direct Action Against Drugs (DAAD), a cover name (pseudonym) used by the IRA. 21 July 1994: an IRA suitcase-bomb was discovered at Reading Railway Station. 16 February 1992: a blast bomb destroyed the Shaftesbury Inn in North Belfast. The Troubles (Irish: Na Trioblóidí) was an ethno-nationalist period of conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 1960s to the late 1990s. When the fighting in Dublin died down, the Free State government was left firmly in control of the Irish capital and the anti-treaty forces dispersed around the country, mainly to the south and west. 9 June 1991: the IRA exploded a 600 lb (270 kg) car bomb in the centre of a Protestant housing estate in Donaghcloney, County Down. 10 June 1994: three British soldiers were wounded when an IRA unit mortared a military checkpoint in Crossmaglen, South Armagh. 10 September 1993: Belfast's transport links were disrupted by a number of IRA hoax alerts. 12 September 1992: a British soldier was wounded in an IRA bomb attack in Whiterock, Belfast. 16 May 1991: a couple, both RUC officers, and their baby son escaped injury after an IRA incendiary device started a fire at their home in Lisburn, County Antrim. 3 August 1990: the British Army defused a 600 lb (270 kg) bomb on a trailer in Rasharkin, County Antrim. 31 December 1991: incendiary devices were discovered in a gift shop in Belfast. 27 September 1990: an IRA bomb was defused at the. 14 April 1997: a civilian went into hiding after he was badly beaten in an IRA punishment attack in Derry. The soldiers left the scene under the protection of the RUC after being cornered by a crowd and after firing shots in the air. The courthouse had been closed since 1985, following a previous IRA attack. 18 March 1997: the IRA warned a bomb had been left in Derrylin, County Fermanagh. However, since it was envisaged that the new army would be built around the IRA, Anti-Treaty IRA units were allowed to take over British barracks and take their arms. 14 September 1990: the British Army defused a 15 lb (6.8 kg) bomb in a bar opposite the courts in Belfast city centre. 16 December 1993: two further IRA bombs on the Surrey railway were defused. The IRA units used a large number of assault rifles and at least one heavy-machine gun. 7 November 1992: a 4 lb (1.8 kg) device attached to a dead sheep belonging to a member of the security forces was defused in Newtownstewart, County Tyrone. 19 December 1991: an IRA incendiary bomb set off in, 21 December 1991: the IRA was accused of complicity in an. 7 June 1992: a British Police officer, Glenn Goodman, was shot dead after he stopped the car of an IRA volunteer on the. 24 November 1991: a UVF member (Colin Caldwell), and a UDA member (Robert Skey), were killed and eight others injured when the IRA managed to plant a bomb in a dining hall used by loyalist prisoners in Crumlin Road Prison, Belfast. He said he was deeply betrayed when de Valera refused to stand by the agreement that the plenipotentiaries had negotiated with David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. 21 May 1992: the IRA bombed the home of an RUC officer in Belfast, less than a quarter of a mile from the RUC's headquarters. 19 January 1991: the IRA was responsible for several bomb alerts in Belfast, causing widespread disruption. Michael Collins later said that Éamon de Valera had sent him as plenipotentiary to negotiate the treaty because he knew that the British would not concede an independent Irish republic and wanted Collins to take the blame for the compromise settlement. 23 August 1993: the IRA detonated a car-bomb outside a bank on the Ormeau Road causing extensive damage. 7 January 1991: the IRA opened fire on the Belfast Law Courts, targeting civilian workers repairing the building. 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