hunger strike. 31 October – Terence MacSwiney is buried in St. Finbarr's Cemetery in his native Cork City. Arthur Griffith delivers the graveside oration. 1 November – an 18-year-old medical student, Kevin Barry, is executed in Mountjoy Prison for participating in the killing of three young unarmed British soldiers. 12 November – a hunger strike in Cork Prison is called off after the Sinn Féin President, Arthur Griffith, intervenes. 21 November – Bloody Sunday: The Irish Republican Army, on the instructions of Michael Collins, shoot dead the "Cairo gang", fourteen British undercover agents in Dublin, most in their homes. Later this day in retaliation the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary open fire on a crowd at a Gaelic Athletic Association Football match in Croke Park, killing thirteen spectators and one player and wounding 60. Three men are shot this night in Dublin Castle "while trying to escape". 22 November – IRA Captain Patrick McCarthy is shot dead during an ambush on "Black and Tans" at Millstreet. 28 November – Kilmichael Ambush: The flying column of the 3rd Cork Brigade IRA, led by Tom Barry, ambushes two lorries carrying Auxiliaries at Kilmichael, County Cork, killing seventeen (with three of its men also dying), which leads to official reprisals. 10 December – martial law is declared in Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary. 11 December – The Burning of Cork: British forces set fire to some of the centre of Cork (city), including the City Hall, in reprisal attacks after a British auxiliary is killed in a guerilla ambush. 23 December Government of Ireland Act 1920, passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, receives Royal Assent from George V providing for the partition of Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland with separate parliaments, granting a measure of home rule. Éamon de Valera returns from attempting to secure support from the United States for the Irish Republic. Arts and literature May – W. B. Yeats concludes a lecture tour (begun in October 1919) in the United States and returns to settle in Oxford. In this year also he publishes The Second Coming. 10 August – La Scala Theatre and Opera House, Dublin, is opened as a cinema. Castleisland's Carnegie library is opened and destroyed by fire. Hamilton Harty becomes chief conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester. Sport Football International 14 February Ireland 2–2 Wales (in Belfast) 13 March