The Royal Irish Constabulary was the police force in Ireland from 1822 until 1922, when all of the country was part of the United Kingdom. A separate civic police force, the unarmed Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP), patrolled the capital and parts of County Wicklow, while the cities of Derry and Belfast, originally with their own police forces, later had special divisions within the RIC. For most of its history, the ethnic and religious makeup of the RIC broadly matched that of the Irish population, although Anglo-Irish Protestants were overrepresented among its senior officers.
Station badge of the "Irish Constabulary" (on display at the Garda Museum)
Tack badge from the RIC Mounted Division
Webley RIC revolver
RIC and Hussars at an eviction 1888
Dublin Metropolitan Police
The Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) was the police force of Dublin in British-controlled Ireland from 1836 to 1922 and then the Irish Free State until 1925, when it was absorbed into the new state's Garda Síochána.
Dublin Metropolitan Police
Burial site of many members of the DMP, Glasnevin Cemetery.
A policeman is about to check an approaching car near Phibsborough.
During the Lock-out, the police break up a union rally on Dublin's Sackville Street, August 1913
