Royal Irish Constabulary
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The Royal Irish Constabulary was the police force in Ireland between 1822 and 1922, when all of the island was part of the United Kingdom. A separate civic police force, the unarmed Dublin Metropolita
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
Royal Ulster Constabulary
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The Royal Ulster Constabulary was the police force of Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. It was founded on 1 June 1922 as a successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary following the partition of Irelan
Royal Irish Constabulary
…the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition of Ireland, the RIC was disbanded in 1922 and was replaced by the Garda Síochána in the Irish Free State and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland. The RIC's system of policing influenced the armed Canadian North-West Mounted Police (predecessor of the Royal Canadian…
The fortifications of the RUC station in Dungiven in 2007.
An Ógra Shinn Féin propaganda sticker calling for the RUC to be disbanded