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Richard Mulcahy Biography and Timeline

Follow Richard Mulcahy through 4 dated historical records for Ireland.

Richard Mulcahy, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

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1919–1922Years on this page

1919

IRA

Politics / IRA

Collins and Richard Mulcahy become the two principal central organisers for the Irish Republican Army

1920

Bloody Sunday

IRA Chief of Staff · Dublin · Warfare / Irish War of Independence

Supports IRA command during the Dublin operations.

Role range: 1919-1921 – 1920-1920

IRA Strategy After Raids

Dublin · Warfare / Irish War of Independence

The IRA leadership assessed the effects of the intelligence operation during a sharp escalation of the independence struggle.

Role range: 1919-1921

1922

Siege of Munster

Munster · Warfare / Civil War

Collins, along with Richard Mulcahy and Eoin ODuffy decide on a series of seaborne landings into republican held areas that re-takes Munster and the west in July-August 1922

Records, sources and methodology

These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.