	TIMELINE OF KEY EVENTS IN CORK CITY AND COUNTY
JULY 1918	First armed attack on Royal Irish Constabulary at Beal a Ghleanna, West Cork.
JANUARY 1920	First R.I.C. barracks in Ireland to be captured - at Carrigtwohill in East Cork.
FEBRUARY 1920	Attack on Castlemartyr R.I.C. Barracks
MARCH 1920	Black and Tans arrive in Ireland.
	Cork Lord Mayor Tomas MacCurtain shot dead by Black and Tans.
MAY 1920	Capture of Cloyne R.I.C. barracks in East Cork.
JUNE 1920	Attack on Blarney R.I.C. barracks.
JULY 1920	Curfew comes into effect in Cork city.
AUGUST 1920	Ambush of Cameron Highlanders at Midleton
SEPTEMBER 1920	Formation of full-time Cork City Active Service Unit of I.R.A.
	Capture of Mallow military barracks by I.R.A.
OCTOBER 1920	British Auxiliary forces arrive in Cork.
	Toureen Ambush carried out by West Cork Brigade.
	Cork Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney dies after 74 days on hunger strike.
NOVEMBER 1920	Kilmichael Ambush - Auxiliaries lose seventeen men. Three I.R.A. killed.
DECEMBER 1920	Martial Law proclaimed in Counties Cork, Limerick and Tipperary.
	Burning of Cork city centre by British forces.
JANUARY 1921	First British 'official' reprisals are carried out in Midleton.
	Dripsey Ambush, 10 miles west of Cork city.
FEBRUARY 1921	Major loss of life in train ambush at Upton station, West Cork.
	I.R.A. suffer major losses at Clonmult in East Cork.
	Coolnacahera ambush - British losses near Macroom.
	Six members of the I.R.A. executed by British in Cork city.
MARCH 1921	British suffer heavy losses at Clonbanin ambush in North Cork.
	Major victory for West Cork Brigade I.R.A. at the Battle of Crossbarry.
	Black and Tans kill six members of Cork No. 1 Brigade I.R.A. at Clogheen.
MAY 1921	Bomb attack by I.R.A. on Second Hampshire Regiment at Youghal - 17 casualties.
JUNE 1921	Over twenty Auxiliaries killed or wounded in ambush at Rathcoole, near Millstreet.
JULY 11, 1921	TRUCE COMES INTO EFFECT AT 12 NOON.