The Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries were part of the British crown forces in Ireland (which also included the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) and the Ulster ...
Of that period it was perhaps Con Dee who was best known – for his daring escape from the Black and Tans atrocity in Knockanure in which his comrades Jeremiah Lyons, Patrick Dalton and Patrick ...
OH, come out you black and tans/ Come out and fight us like a man/ Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders/ Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away/ From the green and lovely ...
Photo by Domnick Walsh Two brothers executed by the Black and Tans in little more than 24 hours of each other. Bereft parents who would never fully recover. And a younger brother who witnessed the ...
The Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries were part of the British crown forces in Ireland (which also included the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) and the Ulster ...