The following events occurred in August 1922:
August 22, 1922: Provisional Irish Free State chairman Michael Collins killed in an ambush during the Irish Civil War
August 4, 1922: All telephones in the United States cease for one minute of silence in honor of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell
Mitchelstown Castle before its destruction
Griffith a month before his death
The following events occurred in January 1922:
January 22, 1922: Benedict XV, Roman Catholic Pope since 1914, dies at the age of 67
January 28, 1922: Collapse of the Knickerbocker movie theater in Washington kills 96 people
January 14, 1922: Michael Collins becomes the first Chairman of the Irish Free State in Dublin
January 3, 1922: New "Peace Dollar" put into circulation in the U.S.