During simmering tensions amongst Treaty and anti-Treaty factions in February and March 1922, a motion passed by eighteen members of Cork Corporation created another source of tension amongst Cork citizens.
Dáil Éireann resumed its Treaty debate on 3 January1922 after a short new year break. A large crowd had assembled at Dublin’s university buildings, Earlsfort Terrace. A bitterly cold wind was experienced, accompanied at intervals by showers.
On 23 April 1920 – this week one hundred years ago – one of Cork's principal streets got a name change to provide another outlet for the public outpouring of grief arising from the murder of Tomás MacCurtain.