Black and Tans
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The Black and Tans were constables recruited into the Royal Irish Constabulary as reinforcements during the Irish War of Independence. Recruitment began in Great Britain in January 1920, and about 10,
A member of the Auxiliary Division of the RIC in Dublin, smoking and carrying a Lewis gun, February 1921
A group of Black and Tans and Auxiliaries outside the London and North Western Hotel in Dublin following an attack by the IRA, April 1921
Bloody Sunday (1920)
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Bloody Sunday was a day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. More than 30 people were killed or fatally wounded.
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…Company of the Auxiliary Division, in reprisal for an IRA ambush at Dillon's Cross. The shooting dead by Crown forces of 13 civilians at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday, in retaliation for the killing of British intelligence officers was carried out by a mixed force of military, Auxiliaries and RIC, though it is not…
A photo purportedly of the Cairo Gang, but possibly the Igoe Gang, RIC officers who were brought to Dublin to identify and target IRA men who had moved to the capital from their respective counties.
British soldiers and relatives of the victims outside Jervis Street Hospital during the military inquiry into the Croke Park massacre
Michael Collins in 1919
A plaque in memory of the three volunteers at Dublin Castle