One of the first and most significant assassinations during the Irish Civil War was that of Sir Henry Wilson on 22 June 1922. Wilson was an Anglo-Irish MP for North Down who had previously been a field marshal in the British Army during the First World War. He was a big supporter of Irish inclusion in the United Kingdom, which made him a bitter opponent to Lloyd George’s Dominion status idea in the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Wilson had been fanatically against the IRA and their campaigns during the Irish War of Independence and wanted Britain to reconquer Ireland.
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