Image: Four Courts Conflagration

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Description: The Four Courts in Dublin during the Battle of Dublin. The building had been taken over by Anti-Treaty forces on 14 April 1922. Bombarded by National Army forces on 28 and 29 June, a huge explosion of stored munitions on 30 June destroyed the Public Records Office, and with it a huge swathe of Irish cultural memory. Date: 30 June 1922 NLI Ref.: HOG57
Title: Four Courts Conflagration
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Author: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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