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The 1920 Munitions Strike: "An unusual kind of strike"

Munitions Strike

100 years ago today, on 20 May 1920, Irish railway workers started refusing to transport British weapons and forces. It was a crucial act of civil resistance in the War …

An example of the currency issued by the strike committee of the so-called Limerick Soviet in 1919

Soviets and solidarity: Labour during the War of Independence

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A steam train crosses a bridge in Kerry

See the effect of the 1920 Munitions Strike

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Burnt out building that is believed to be the creamery in Ballymacelligott, County Kerry. Image © UCD National University of Ireland, Dublin licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Under attack: the burning of co-operative creameries

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Century Ireland reports on the events of May 1920

Munitions Strike

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