Royal Irish Constabulary | historical British security force | Britannica (original) (raw)

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Black and Tans

• In Black and Tan
  …British recruits enrolled in the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) from January 1920 to July 1921. Their colloquial name derived from the makeshift uniforms they were issued because of a shortage of RIC uniforms—green police tunics and khaki military trousers, which together resembled the distinctive markings of a famous pack of…
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history of Cork

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  In Cork
  …elite Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Two of the city’s lord mayors, Thomas MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney, both of whom were also local republican leaders, died in 1920: MacCurtain was shot dead in his bed by the RIC, and his successor, MacSwiney, died in Brixton prison after…
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