Battle of Kilmallock

DATE: 22/03/2026

TIME (GMT): 00:00

ERA: WW2

MAP(S): Lingevres

TYPE: COOP

GAME: Arma 3

EVENT: Official

AUTHOR(S): Bismark

SLOTS: 58 / 94

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The Irish civil war began mere months after the Irish war for independence, which was concluded following the controversial Anglo-Irish Treaty, leaving Ireland partitioned and with only partial independence, with members of the Irish parliament having to swear an oath of fealty to the British crown. 
While the majority of Irish people and government officials were happy having finally achieved some form of independence, many elements of the Republican party, led by former president Èamon De Valera, were deeply unhappy with this, hoping for a fully independent Ireland. 
The Republicans began accusing the Provisional government of undermining the Irish state claimed during the 1916 Easter Rising, which called for a fully independent, united Ireland. 

As such on June 28th 1922, with Liam Lynch as their overall commander, and Èamon De Valera as their political figurehead, the Anti-Treaty IRA began their war against the Free State by sending 170 men of the IRA to occupy the Four Courts building in Dublin city, a mostly symbolic gesture harkening back to the Easter Rising. 
The resulting siege lasted nearly 4 months, and culminated in the elite Dublin Guard (a unit comprised of veterans from the war of independence) storming the building and arresting many of the Republican leaders housed inside, and despite Republican hopes that it would garner more public support, it did not, and Dublin remained firmly in the hands of the Provisional government. 
Instead, the Republicans based themselves in the southern province of Munster, where they had far more public support and could begin a widespread campaign across the country.

Despite initially being outnumbered, the Free State could rely on British support and arms, including artillery, armored cars, and aircraft, as well as being under the command of Micheal Collins, a highly charismatic veteran commander whose expertise proved invaluable for the National Army. 
The majority of the war was comprised of small skirmishes, IRA troops taking towns and overrunning National Army garrisons, however given their lack of public support and equipment shortages, this was doomed to fail. 
Following several naval landings conducted by the National Army, taking the Republican stronghold in Cork and Fermoy, the war was all but over. 
Guerilla attacks and skirmishes still occurred, but after the capture of Liam Deasy, one of the last IRA commanders, he called for IRA forces to cease actions and end the fighting, and on the 24th of May 1923, the civil war was officially ended.