A History of Ireland in International Relations. Owen McGee

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in Munster over whom GHQ exercised virtually no control. Particularly during the spring of 1921, some of these men attempted to resist by force the imposition of a British military curfew in Cork. This curfew was designed to punish all sympathisers with MacSwiney’s hunger strike by burning Cork city to the ground and summarily executing any armed member of the general Irish public. The Sinn Féin mayor of Limerick was also shot dead by Crown forces at this time.99

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