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Black and Tans


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Was the nickname, derived from a Limerick hound pack, or the colour of the uniform, for an auxiliary police force recruited in Britain 1920–1 from ex‐servicemen to reinforce the hard‐pressed Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). The ill‐disciplined force was associated with drunken brutality and reprisals following Irish Republican Army (IRA) atrocities.

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Black and Tans
in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3) Length: 129 words
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in A Dictionary of World History (2) Length: 103 words
Black and Tans
in The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2) Length: 242 words
Black and Tans
in The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature Length: 60 words

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