Assassination of Sir Henry Wilson

Date: June 22, 1922 • Location: London, United Kingdom

Irish Republican Army gunmen assassinated British member of parliament Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson.

The Irish Republican Army was an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that carried on a number of violent campaigns between 1922 and 1969, in pursuit of a 32-county Irish republic. It arose from a split in the original IRA over the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, and was known during the ensuing Civil War as the Anti-Treaty IRA or the "Irregulars". It split in 1969 into the Provisional IRA and Official IRA.