Seamus Woods leads an Irish Republican Army attack on the headquarters of the Royal Irish Constabulary in Belfast.

Seamus Woods

Seamus Woods commanded a division of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during a period of intense conflict and was a senior leader of the newly formed Irish Free State army.

Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)

Irish paramilitary organisation

The Irish Republican Army was an Irish republican revolutionary paramilitary organisation who waged a guerrilla campaign against the British occupation of Ireland in the 1919–1921 Irish War of Independence. It was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established…

Royal Irish Constabulary

Former armed police force of the United Kingdom in Ireland

The Royal Irish Constabulary was the police force in Ireland between 1822 and 1922, when all of the island was part of the United Kingdom. A separate civic police force, the unarmed Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP), patrolled the capital and parts of County Wicklow, while the…

May 18

Day of the year

May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 227 days remain until the end of the year.