Editing Irish War of Independence (section)

==Casualties==
[[File:Warofindep.jpg|upright|thumb|left|Monument to IRA fighters in [[Phibsborough]], Dublin]]
According to ''The Dead of the Irish Revolution'', 2,346 people were killed or died as a result of the conflict. This counts a small number of deaths before and after the war, from 1917 until the signing of the Treaty at the end of 1921. Of those killed, 919 were civilians, 523 were police personnel, 413 were British military personnel, and 491 were IRA volunteers<ref name="O'Halpin 544">Eunan O'Halpin & Daithí Ó Corráin. ''The Dead of the Irish Revolution''. [[Yale University Press]], 2020. p. 544</ref> (although another source gives 550 IRA dead).{{sfn|Hopkinson|2002|pages=201-202}} About 44% of these British military deaths were by [[Death by misadventure|misadventure]] (such as accidental shooting) and suicide while on active service, as were 10% of police losses and 14% of IRA losses.<ref name="O'Halpin 11-12">O'Halpin & Ó Corráin, ''The Dead of the Irish Revolution'', pp. 11–12</ref> About 36% of police personnel who died were born outside Ireland.<ref name="O'Halpin 11-12"/>

At least 557 people were killed in political violence in what became Northern Ireland between July 1920 and July 1922. Many of these deaths took place after the truce that ended fighting in the rest of Ireland. Of these deaths, between 303 and 340 were Catholic civilians, between 172 and 196 were Protestant civilians, 82 were police personnel (38 RIC and 44 USC), and 35 were IRA volunteers. Most of the violence took place in Belfast: at least 452 people were killed there – 267 Catholics and 185 Protestants.<ref>Richard English, ''Armed Struggle, a History of the IRA'', pp. 39–40. Robert Lynch, ''The Northern IRA and the Early Years of Partition'', pp. 67,  227.</ref>