Bloody Sunday - Escalation in the Irish War of Independence I THE GREAT WAR 1920

Watch The Great War on Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/the-great-war The British government was confident that the guerrilla war against the Irish Independence movement would soon be under control. But with the events around Bloody Sunday and the Killmichael Ambush, the situation reached a new level of violence. » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon:   / thegreatwar   Become a member:    / @thegreatwar   » OUR PODCAST https://realtimehistory.net/podcast - interviews with World War 1 historians and background info for the show. » BUY OUR SOURCES IN OUR AMAZON STORES https://realtimehistory.net/amazon * *Buying via this link supports The Great War (Affiliate-Link) » SOURCES Dolan, Anne. “Killing the Bloody Sunday: November 1920” The Historical Journal Vol. 49, No. 3 (Sep., 2006) Hopkinson, Michael. “The Irish War of Independence” (Montreal & Kingston : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002) “The Macroom Ambush” The Irish Independent, January 17 1921 McMahon, Sean. “The War of Independence” (Cork : Mercier Press, 2019) O’Brien, Paul. “Havoc: The Auxiliaries in Ireland’s War of Independence” (Cork : Collins Press, 2017) Ridley, Nicholas. “Michael Collins and the Financing of Violent Political Struggle” (New York : Routledge, 2018) Roxbourgh, Ian. “The Military: The Mutual Determination of Strategy in Ireland, 1912-1921” in Duyvendak, Jan Willem & Jasper, James M. (eds) Breaking Down the State: Protesters Engaged, (Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2015) Ryan, Meda. “The Kilmichael Ambush, 1920: Exploring the 'Provocative Chapters”, History, Vol. 92, No. 2 (306) (APRIL 2007) Townshend, Charles. “The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence 1918-1923” (London : Penguin Books, 2014) » MORE THE GREAT WAR Website: https://realtimehistory.net Facebook:   / thegreatwaryt   Instagram:   / the_great_war   Twitter:   / ww1_series   Reddit: htpps://reddit.com/r/TheGreatWarChannel » OTHER PROJECTS 16 DAYS IN BERLIN: https://realtimehistory.net/pages/16-... »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Maps: Daniel Kogosov (  / zalezsky  ) Research by: Mark Newton Fact checking: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Yves Thimian Contains licensed material by getty images All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2020