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The Free State Army, now lead by Michael Collins, went on to capture the provincial cities of [[Cork]], [[Limerick]] and [[Waterford]] from anti-treaty IRA in August 1922, ship-borne forces capturing Cork. Because the Free State Army possessed artillery and armoured vehicles, it was able to defeat anti-treaty forces in open combat; therefore the anti-treaty IRA resumed [[guerilla warfare]] against the government.

The Free State Army, now lead by Michael Collins, went on to capture the provincial cities of [[Cork]], [[Limerick]] and [[Waterford]] from anti-treaty IRA in August 1922, ship-borne forces capturing Cork. Because the Free State Army possessed artillery and armoured vehicles, it was able to defeat anti-treaty forces in open combat; therefore the anti-treaty IRA resumed [[guerilla warfare]] against the government.

==The guerilla campaign==

==The guerrilla campaign==

The first significant caualty was Michael Collins himself, killed in August 1922 in an ambush in County Cork, only a few days after the funeral of Arthur Griffith, who had died of illness. The guerilla campaign lasted eight months, and was brought to an end by the ruthless policy of repression instituted by the government, harsher than that employed by the British during the [[Irish War of Independence]]. The Government began executing anti-Treaty prisoners in November 1922, in reprisal for IRA attacks; one victim was the author [[Erskine Childers]], shot by firing squad on 24 November. The Army also carried out the summary execution of captured anti-treaty forces, in one case tying 9 IRA men to a land mine, which was then detonated. By early 1923 the anti-treaty IRA was cracking under this pressure, and in May it ordered its volunteers to dump their arms - in effect, to suspend the struggle.

The first significant caualty was Michael Collins himself, killed in August 1922 in an ambush in County Cork, only a few days after the funeral of Arthur Griffith, who had died of illness. The guerilla campaign lasted eight months, and was brought to an end by the ruthless policy of repression instituted by the government, harsher than that employed by the British during the [[Irish War of Independence]]. The Government began executing anti-Treaty prisoners in November 1922, in reprisal for IRA attacks; one victim was the author [[Erskine Childers]], shot by firing squad on 24 November. The Army also carried out the summary execution of captured anti-treaty forces, in one case tying 9 IRA men to a land mine, which was then detonated. By early 1923 the anti-treaty IRA was cracking under this pressure, and in May it ordered its volunteers to dump their arms - in effect, to suspend the struggle.