British Police Killed 14 Civilians at a Dublin Football Match. The Investigation Was Buried.

On the morning of November twenty-first, 1920, Michael Collins's IRA gunmen shot dead fifteen British intelligence officers across Dublin. By breakfast, the most sophisticated British spy network in Ireland had been destroyed. That afternoon, in revenge, British forces drove to a Gaelic football match at Croke Park, surrounded the stadium, and opened fire on the crowd. They kept firing for ninety seconds. Fourteen civilians were killed. Three of them were children. The youngest was ten years old. This is the story of the Irish War of Independence — the Black and Tans, the Auxiliaries, and the British forces who burned Cork to the ground two weeks later, then told Parliament that Cork had burned itself. It is also the story of how a guerrilla force of around fifteen thousand Irishmen forced the largest empire in human history to negotiate, and how that empire walked away and quietly forgot. The dead are still in Ireland's ground. Some of them were buried in unmarked graves until two thousand and eighteen. Subscribe for more stories about the wars and revolutions that shaped Europe — and the ones nobody told you about. #Ireland #IrishHistory #BlackAndTans #BloodySunday #1920 #History #Documentary #MilitaryHistory