On This Day / March 5, 1921
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Summary: On This Day – 5th March 1921, bomb and rifle attacks struck Dublin’s North Quays, Roslea burnings were detailed, Armagh Specials were disarmed, and the Belfast Boycott intensified. Edited by Éamon Phoenix.
An Island at War | On This Day – 5th March 1921
DUBLIN Castle states: A body of RIC, with some prisoners, were proceeding from the Phoenix Park to the Castle about 7 p.m. last night.
Bombs were thrown at them on the North Quays near Royal Barracks [now Collins Barracks Museum] and at the same time rifle and revolver fire was opened from the south side of the river.
The cars were halted and the police attacked their assailants and believe they killed at least three men and wounded four or five others.
Dublin Castle on Roslea Burnings
DUBLIN Castle states with regard to the burnings that followed an alleged attempt to murder one of the Ulster Volunteers on February 21st state that 31 houses in Roslea, County Fermanagh were destroyed. The houses were thatched and the fire spread rapidly.
Armagh Specials Disarmed
ON THURSDAY night about nine o’clock two Specials named Jennings (Portadown) and Dixon (Hamiltonsbawn), both stationed at Milford, County Armagh, were met by ten men, held up and their revolvers taken from them. In the struggle both constables were injured.
The Boycott of Belfast
A GOODS train from Sligo was held up near Curry Station by armed and masked men.
As soon as the train was stopped a large party appeared and searched the wagons.
Potatoes and meal consigned from Northern stations were thrown on the line and afterwards taken away.
New US President Installed
THE ceremony at the inauguration of Mr Warren Harding as President of the United States took place yesterday at the Capitol, Washington.
Mr Woodrow Wilson, the ex-President, accompanied Mr Harding from the White House.
Mr Wilson’s physical condition was such that he had to be assisted down the steps of the White House on arrival at the Capitol.
Yielding to the entreaties of his physician and family, he left the Capitol before the inauguration ceremony began.
(Éamon Phoenix editor’s note: These reports capture the intensity of the war across Ireland by March 1921.
As ever, the Ulster ‘borderlands’ witnessed regular IRA ambushes and the IRA’s rigorous implementation of the ‘Belfast Boycott’, authorised by the Dáil against Belfast Unionist firms allegedly linked to sectarian expulsions.
The boycott damaged Belfast’s trade but was totally counterproductive.
Meanwhile, an ailing Woodrow Wilson, his interventionist foreign policy rejected by the Congress, was defeated in the 1920 US presidential election.)
On This Day – 5th March 1921
Further Reading on Irish History:
List of other On This Day columns
Other resources: National Library of Ireland Irish News CAIN Archive
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Summary: On This Day – 5th March 1921, bomb and rifle attacks struck Dublin’s North Quays, Roslea burnings were detailed, Armagh Specials were disarmed, and the Belfast Boycott intensified. Edited by Éamon Phoenix.
An Island at War | On This Day – 5th March 1921
DUBLIN Castle states: A body of RIC, with some prisoners, were proceeding from the Phoenix Park to the Castle about 7 p.m. last night.
Bombs were thrown at them on the North Quays near Royal Barracks [now Collins Barracks Museum] and at the same time rifle and revolver fire was opened from the south side of the river.
The cars were halted and the police attacked their assailants and believe they killed at least three men and wounded four or five others.
Dublin Castle on Roslea Burnings
DUBLIN Castle states with regard to the burnings that followed an alleged attempt to murder one of the Ulster Volunteers on February 21st state that 31 houses in Roslea, County Fermanagh were destroyed. The houses were thatched and the fire spread rapidly.
Armagh Specials Disarmed
ON THURSDAY night about nine o’clock two Specials named Jennings (Portadown) and Dixon (Hamiltonsbawn), both stationed at Milford, County Armagh, were met by ten men, held up and their revolvers taken from them. In the struggle both constables were injured.
The Boycott of Belfast
A GOODS train from Sligo was held up near Curry Station by armed and masked men.
As soon as the train was stopped a large party appeared and searched the wagons.
Potatoes and meal consigned from Northern stations were thrown on the line and afterwards taken away.
New US President Installed
THE ceremony at the inauguration of Mr Warren Harding as President of the United States took place yesterday at the Capitol, Washington.
Mr Woodrow Wilson, the ex-President, accompanied Mr Harding from the White House.
Mr Wilson’s physical condition was such that he had to be assisted down the steps of the White House on arrival at the Capitol.
Yielding to the entreaties of his physician and family, he left the Capitol before the inauguration ceremony began.
(Éamon Phoenix editor’s note: These reports capture the intensity of the war across Ireland by March 1921.
As ever, the Ulster ‘borderlands’ witnessed regular IRA ambushes and the IRA’s rigorous implementation of the ‘Belfast Boycott’, authorised by the Dáil against Belfast Unionist firms allegedly linked to sectarian expulsions.
The boycott damaged Belfast’s trade but was totally counterproductive.
Meanwhile, an ailing Woodrow Wilson, his interventionist foreign policy rejected by the Congress, was defeated in the 1920 US presidential election.)
On This Day – 5th March 1921
Further Reading on Irish History:
List of other On This Day columns
Other resources: National Library of Ireland Irish News CAIN Archive
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Summary: On This Day – 5th March 1921, bomb and rifle attacks struck Dublin’s North Quays, Roslea burnings were detailed, Armagh Specials were disarmed, and the Belfast Boycott intensified. Edited by Éamon Phoenix.
An Island at War | On This Day – 5th March 1921
DUBLIN Castle states: A body of RIC, with some prisoners, were proceeding from the Phoenix Park to the Castle about 7 p.m. last night.
Bombs were thrown at them on the North Quays near Royal Barracks [now Collins Barracks Museum] and at the same time rifle and revolver fire was opened from the south side of the river.
The cars were halted and the police attacked their assailants and believe they killed at least three men and wounded four or five others.
Dublin Castle on Roslea Burnings
DUBLIN Castle states with regard to the burnings that followed an alleged attempt to murder one of the Ulster Volunteers on February 21st state that 31 houses in Roslea, County Fermanagh were destroyed. The houses were thatched and the fire spread rapidly.
Armagh Specials Disarmed
ON THURSDAY night about nine o’clock two Specials named Jennings (Portadown) and Dixon (Hamiltonsbawn), both stationed at Milford, County Armagh, were met by ten men, held up and their revolvers taken from them. In the struggle both constables were injured.
The Boycott of Belfast
A GOODS train from Sligo was held up near Curry Station by armed and masked men.
As soon as the train was stopped a large party appeared and searched the wagons.
Potatoes and meal consigned from Northern stations were thrown on the line and afterwards taken away.
New US President Installed
THE ceremony at the inauguration of Mr Warren Harding as President of the United States took place yesterday at the Capitol, Washington.
Mr Woodrow Wilson, the ex-President, accompanied Mr Harding from the White House.
Mr Wilson’s physical condition was such that he had to be assisted down the steps of the White House on arrival at the Capitol.
Yielding to the entreaties of his physician and family, he left the Capitol before the inauguration ceremony began.
(Éamon Phoenix editor’s note: These reports capture the intensity of the war across Ireland by March 1921.
As ever, the Ulster ‘borderlands’ witnessed regular IRA ambushes and the IRA’s rigorous implementation of the ‘Belfast Boycott’, authorised by the Dáil against Belfast Unionist firms allegedly linked to sectarian expulsions.
The boycott damaged Belfast’s trade but was totally counterproductive.
Meanwhile, an ailing Woodrow Wilson, his interventionist foreign policy rejected by the Congress, was defeated in the 1920 US presidential election.)
On This Day – 5th March 1921
Further Reading on Irish History:
List of other On This Day columns
Other resources: National Library of Ireland Irish News CAIN Archive
On This Day is a daily column in the Irish News looking back either 50 or 100 years. The column was compiled by Dr Éamon Phoenix from the mid 1980s until autumn, 2022. The Foundation is very grateful to the Irish News for giving permission to reproduce Eamon’s columns. Funding gratefully received from Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and the Magill Trust.
* The Foundation has worked hard to recreate Eamon’s distinctive voice through AI. Since this is an emerging technology, occasional imperfections may be audible.