On 18 March, Northern police raided IRA headquarters in Belfast, seizing weapons and lists of IRA volunteers. The Provisional Government condemned this as a breach of the truce.McKenna, Guerrilla Warfare in the Irish War of Independence, pp. 266–267 Over the next two weeks, the IRA raided several police barracks in the North, killed several officers and captured fifteen.
On 18 March, Northern police raided IRA headquarters in Belfast, seizing weapons and lists of IRA volunteers. The Provisional Government condemned this as a breach of the truce.McKenna, Guerrilla Warfare in the Irish War of Independence, pp. 266–267 Over the next two weeks, the IRA raided several police barracks in the North, killed several officers and captured fifteen.