Lex Anteinternet: May 25, 1921. The burning of the Customs House.

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

May 25, 1921. The burning of the Customs House.

On this day in 1921 the Irish Republican Army occupied and burned the Customs House in Dublin. It was a pyrrhic victory in which they lost five men dead and eighty captured.

It remains one of the most famous events of the Anglo Irish War.

May 25, 1921. Road construction.

Locomotive pulling cars, possibly during road construction. May 25, 1921.

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