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Mon 07 Jul 2009Anti-Treaty IRA burn Protestant orphanages to the ground in Galway
BACK PAGES July 27th, 1922:IN JULY 1922 the Civil War had begun and violent incidents were reported from all parts of the Free State as its army took control of Dublin and set about taking numerous towns in the west and south from anti-Treaty forces.
Newspapers were censored (by the Provisional Government in Dublin and the anti-Treaty IRA in Cork) and promised meetings of the Dáil postponed. Most accounts of the fighting and other incidents came from official sources: in the House of Lords in London, Unionist leader Edward Carson gave this account of the burning by the anti-Treaty IRA of a Protestant orphanage in Clifden.
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