Raids and Reprisals - British Reprisals
The Burning of Cork, December 1920
HE:EWT.96
HE:EWT.96
The Burning of Cork, December 1920
The Burning of Cork, 1920. Photograph shows the devastation of Patrick Street. The city centre was destroyed in the Black and Tan reprisal burnings on 11 & 12 December 1920, after an IRA ambush on an Auxiliary patrol. Firefighters stated that they were stopped from putting out the fires by the Black and Tans.
Photograph by W.D. Hogan of 56 Henry Street, Dublin.
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