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THE REVOLUTION PAPERS - PART 37

1921
ARSON IN DUBLIN
The IRA attacks the Custom House


Newspapers: 
  • Evening Telegraph, 25 May 1921
  • Irish Weekly Independent, 28 May 1921
  • Northern Whig, 28 May 1921

Contemporary document: 
The worst act of Sinn Féin
 

Contents and articles:
Revolution Chronicle
'An incendiary act': the first post-partition elections are swiftly followed by a dramatic attack in Dublin
'A political success but a military failure': the Custom House is the perfect target for a high-profile strike against British authority
'The first two-parliament elections in Northern Ireland': outstanding victory for unionists in the North


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