Perang Kemerdekaan Ireland
| Perang Kemerdekaan Ireland | |||||||
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| Sebahagian dari Revolusi Ireland | |||||||
Briged Tipperary Ketiga Flying Column semasa perang |
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| Pihak bersengketa | |||||||
| Komander | |||||||
| Michael Collins Richard Mulcahy Cathal Brugha Pemimpin-pemimpin utama IRA tempatan |
David Lloyd George Henry Hugh Tudor |
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| Kekuatan | |||||||
| Tentera Republik Ireland Kekuatan di atas kertas melebihi 100,000 anggota (hanya 15,000 anggota terlibat dalam perang, di mana kira-kira 3,000 anggota pada satu-satu masa) | Tentera Darat Britain ~20,000 Pasukan Konstanbel Diraja Ireland 9,700 Black and Tans 7,000 Divisyen Bantuan 1,400 Pasukan Konstanbel Khas Ulster 4,000 |
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| Korban dan kehilangan | |||||||
| ~550 IRA[1] | 410 RIC 261 Tentera Darat Britain 43 USC[2] |
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| ~750 orang awam[3] | |||||||
Perang Kemerdekaan Ireland (Bahasa Ireland: Cogadh na Saoirse, juga dikenali sebagai "Perang Inggeris-Ireland" atau "Perang Tan",[4]) adalah satu perang gerila yang dilancarkan bagi menentang kerajaan Britain di Ireland oleh Tentera Republik Ireland Irish Republican Army (IRA). Ia bermula pada bulan Januari 1919, berikutan pengistiharan kemerdekaan oleh Republik Ireland, dan tamat dengan satu perjanjian damai pada bulan Julai 1921. Rundingan berikutnya membawa kepada Perjanjian Inggeris-Ireland, yang mana menamatkan pemerintahan Britain di Ireland dan kewujudan Negara Bebas Ireland. Bagaimanapun, enam negeri-negeri di utara kekal di bawah pemerintahan Britain.
Tentera Republik Ireland yang berjuang di dalam perang ini sering kali dirujuk sebagai IRA Lama bagi membezakannya dengan pertubuhan terkemudian yang menggunakan nama yang sama.
[sunting] Rujukan
- ↑ (Hopkinson, Irish War of Independence p 201-202)
- ↑ Hopkinson, Irish War of Independence p 201-202) Hopkinson lists 363 RIC killed in Southern Ireland 1919-21, Robert Lynch, the Northern IRA and the Early Years of Partition, gives a figure of 38 RIC and 43 USC personnel killed in Northern Ireland 1920-22 p.227 and p.67. The RIC casualty figure includes 4 Dublin Metropolitan Policemen and 2 Harbour Police
- ↑ Hopkinson lists 200 killed in southern Ireland 1919–21,Richard English, Armed Struggle, a History of the IRA, gives a total of 557 killed in Northern Ireland in 1920-1922 page 39-40
- ↑ The war is often referred to as the "Irish War of Independence" in Ireland and as the "Anglo-Irish War" in Britain, the "Tan War" by anti-Treaty republicans and was known contemporaneously as "the Troubles," not to be confused with the later conflict in Northern Ireland, which is also referred to as the "the Troubles."
[sunting] Pautan luar
- Chronology of Irish History 1919 - 1923
- Cork's War of Independence
- Eleven killed in an IRA gun ambush outside Dromkeen 3 February 1921, on the Limerick Leader web site.