Editing Tralee (section)

===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 1919–1923. 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 Ó Gráda  | title = New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850  | journal = The Economic History Review  | volume = 37  | issue =  4  | series = Volume
| pages = 473–488  |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 – Settlements – 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"/>
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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.