1920 in Ireland

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1 Events
2 Arts and literature
3 Sport
- 3.1 Football
4 Gaelic Games
5 Births
6 Deaths

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February 27 - The text of the Home Rule Bill to be introduced in the British House of Commons is published. It provides for the establishment of a 128-member parliament in Dublin and a 52-member parliament in Belfast.
March 20 - The Lord Mayor of Cork, Thomas MacCurtain, is murdered when armed Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) men broke into his house.
March 22 - Thousands gather to pay their respects to the murdered Tomás MacCurtain. Over 8,000 Irish Republican Army (IRA) Volunteers line the route to St. Fionnbar's Cemetery.
May 2 - Viscount Fitzalan is sworn in as the Lord-Lieutenant. He is the first Catholic to hold the viceroyalty since the reign of King James II.
May 22 - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV beatifies Oliver Plunkett.
August 19 - Following his arrest the Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, goes on hunger strike in Brixton Prison.
September 28 - There are disturbances at Mallow, County Cork when a raid on a military barracks by Liam Lynch and Ernie O'Malley is followed by a sack of the town by British soldiers.
October 25 - Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, dies at Brixton Prison on the 74th day of his hunger strike.
October 31 - Terence MacSwiney is buried in St. Finbarr's Cemetery in his native Cork City. Arthur Griffith delivers the graveside oration.
November 1 - An 18-year-old medical student, Kevin Barry, is executed in Mountjoy Prison for the killing of a British soldier.
November 12 - The hunger strike in Cork Jail is called off after the Sinn Féin President, Arthur Griffith, intervenes.
November 21 - Bloody Sunday: The Irish Republican Army, on the instructions of Michael Collins, shoot dead 14 British undercover agents in Dublin, most in their homes. Later that day the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary open fire on a crowd at a Gaelic Athletic Association Football match in Croke Park, killing 12 people and wounding 60. Three men are shot that night in Dublin Castle "while trying to escape".
November 28 - The flying column of the 3rd Cork Brigade IRA, led by Tom Barry, ambushes and kills 16 Auxiliaries at Kilmichael, County Cork which led to a system of martial law and official reprisals.
December 11 - British forces set fire to some five acres of the centre of Cork City, including the City Hall, in reprisal attacks after a British auxiliary is killed in a guerilla ambush.

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Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

Irish Cup

Winners: Shelbourne (final not played). Disorder at the other semi-final which is abandoned means both potential opponents are excluded from the competition and the Irish Football Association award the cup to Shelbourne.