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===War of Independence and Civil War=== [[File:The Mall, Tralee, Co.Kerry (5691334289).jpg|thumb|left|220px|The Mall in the early 1900s]] Tralee saw much violence during the [[Irish War of Independence]] and [[Irish Civil War]] in 1919β1923. In November 1920, the [[Black and Tans]] [[Siege of Tralee|besieged Tralee]] in revenge for the [[Irish Republican Army]] (IRA) abduction and killing of two [[Royal Irish Constabulary]] (RIC) men. The Tans closed all the businesses in the town and did not let any food in for a week. They burned several houses and all businesses connected with IRA activists. In the course of the week, they shot dead three local people. The events caused a major international outcry as the press reported that near-famine conditions were prevailing in Tralee by the end of the week. {{Historical populations|state=collapsed |1821|7547 |1831|9568 |1841|11363 |1851|9445 |1861|10271 |1871|9506 |1881|9910 |1891|9318 |1901|9867 |1911|10300 |1926|10533 |1936|10285 |1946|9990 |1951|11045 |1956|11612 |1961|11423 |1966|11976 |1971|13263 |1981|17035 |1986|17620 |1991|17862 |1996|19950 |2002|21987 |2006|22744 |2011|23693 |2016|23691 |2022|26079 | footnote = <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cso.ie/census |title=Census for post 1821 figures. |access-date=25 July 2009 |archive-date=20 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920090850/http://cso.ie/census/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.histpop.org |title=Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website |website=histpop.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/ |archive-date=7 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |title=Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency - Census Home Page |access-date=12 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |archive-date=17 February 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Lee|first=JJ| author-link =J. J. Lee (historian)|editor-last=Goldstrom|editor-first=J. M.|editor2-last=Clarkson | editor2-first=L. A.|title=Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell | year=1981|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford, England | chapter=On the accuracy of the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Pre-famine]] Irish censuses}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Mokyr | first1 = Joel | author-link = Joel Mokyr | last2 = O Grada | first2 = Cormac | author2-link = Cormac Γ GrΓ‘da | title = New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700β1850 | journal = The Economic History Review | volume = 37 | issue = 4 | series = Volume | pages = 473β488 |date=November 1984 | url = http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121204160709/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2012-12-04 | doi = 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x | hdl = 10197/1406 | hdl-access = free }}</ref><ref name="sapmap2016">{{cite web | url = http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=06A0DC19-D11E-45BB-948F-04B7201C353A#SAPMAP_T1_100 | publisher = [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|CSO]] | work = Census 2016 | title = Sapmap Area β Settlements β Tralee | date = 2016 | access-date = 12 January 2018 | archive-date = 30 July 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170730015322/http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=06A0DC19-D11E-45BB-948F-04B7201C353A#SAPMAP_T1_100 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="tableF1015census2022"/> }} In August 1922 during the Irish Civil War, [[Irish Free State]] troops landed at nearby [[Fenit]] and took Tralee from its Anti-Treaty garrison. Nine pro-Treaty and three anti-Treaty soldiers were killed in fighting in the town before the anti-Treaty forces withdrew. The Republicans continued a guerrilla campaign in the surrounding area. In March 1923 Free State troops took nine anti-treaty IRA prisoners from the prison in Tralee and blew them up with a [[land mine]] at nearby [[Ballyseedy]]. Only [[Stephen Fuller]], a future Irish politician, survived the explosion.<ref name="irishtimes.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/stories-of-the-revolution-ballyseedy-and-the-civil-war-s-worst-atrocity-1.2462070|title=Stories of the revolution: Ballyseedy and the Civil War's worst atrocity|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |accessdate=21 September 2017}}</ref> [[File:Ashe memorial hall.jpg|thumb|Ashe Memorial Hall]] The Ashe Memorial Hall was built in 1928 at the end of Denny Street; it is dedicated to the memory of [[Thomas Ashe]], an [[Irish Volunteers]] officer in the [[Easter Rising]] of 1916. The building is built of local sandstone. It housed the headquarters of [[Kerry County Council]] and Tralee Urban District Council; both now have moved to other premises. Since 1992 it has housed the [[Kerry County Museum]], which includes a reconstruction of Tralee as of 1450, prior to colonisation.
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