The Black and Tans
The term Black and Tans refers to the Royal Irish Constabulary Reserve Force, which was one of two paramilitary forces employed by the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1920 to 1921 to suppress revolution in Ireland by targeting the IRA. Although only a small proportion of the British forces in Ireland, The Black and Tans were the fiercest and most feared, sent in March of 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet to make Ireland "a hell for rebels to live in." They could arrest and imprison anyone at any time. They murdered civilians. They wore a strange mixture of dark green tunis, khaki trousers, black belts, and odd headgear. Richard Bennett, a Lt. Colonel in the Army Bureau of Current Affairs, provides an accurate account of this harrowing period in Anglo-Irish history. - Publisher
Print Book, English, 1995, ©1959
Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 1995, ©1959
History
228 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
9781566198202, 1566198208
32727338
The beginning of the end
Patriots v. peelers
New tools for an old job
The gunman's republic
The gathering storm
Restoration of order?
Reprisals and protests
Bloody Sunday
Peace moves and arson
Die hards on the defensive
Mailed fist and olive branch
The truce at last