The Royal Irish Constabulary and Colonial Policing: Lessons and Legacies
The Royal Irish Constabulary and Colonial Policing: Lessons and Legacies By Dr Seán William Gannon TAGS On 27 August 1920, the RIC’s in-house propaganda freesheet, the Weekly Summary, warned that the newly-recruited Black and Tans (who had been arriving in Ireland since January) would make the country ‘an appropriate hell for those whose trade is agitation and whose method is murder’, and the orgy of reprisals against republicans and their communities that followed demonstrated that this was no idle threat. While reprisals had been hitherto an occasional feature of the police counteri...
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