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==The Four Courts and the outbreak of war==

==The Four Courts and the outbreak of war==

In April 1922 a detachment of anti-Treaty IRA had occupied the Four Courts judicial complex on the banks of the [[River Liffey]] in central [[Dublin]]. The British government, incensed by the assassination of General Sir Henry Wilson in London, and wrongly believing it to have been committed by anti-Treaty elements (it had, in fact, been ordered by the pro-Treaty [[Michael Collins]], incensed by Wilson's role in organising oppression of Nationalists in Northern Ireland), gave the Free State Government an ultimatum to clear the Four Courts. This accorded with the wishes of the government, which wished to assert its own authority, and the courts were bombarded (with borrowed British artillery) and stormed byFree State Army troops after two days, on 30 June. Heavy fighting took place throughout Dublin until the city was secured by government forces on 5 July.

In April 1922 a detachment of anti-Treaty IRA had occupied the Four Courts judicial complex on the banks of the [[River Liffey]] in central [[Dublin]]. The British government, incensed by the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson in London, and wrongly believing it to have been committed by anti-Treaty elements (it had, in fact, been ordered by the pro-Treaty [[Michael Collins]], incensed by Wilson's role in organising oppression of Nationalists in Northern Ireland), gave the Free State Government an ultimatum to clear the Four Courts. This accorded with the wishes of the government, which wished to assert its own authority, and the courts were bombarded (with borrowed British artillery) and stormed byFree State Army troops after two days, on 30 June. Heavy fighting took place throughout Dublin until the city was secured by government forces on 5 July.

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