On this day, 21 November 1920, soldiers of the Irish Republican Army assassinated 15 suspected British Intelligence officers. In retaliation, policemen from the Royal Irish Constabulary raided Croke Park stadium where a Gaelic football match was being watched by thousands of spectators. The RIC fired indiscriminately into the crowd, killing 14 people (including one of the players). The massacre at Croke Park has become one of the most contentious atrocities of the Irish War of Independence, alongside the brutal actions of the “Black and Tans”, the British burning of Cork City, and the IRA killing of Protestant civilians around Dunmanway, County Cork.
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