Fergie, The DMP was an unarmed police force modelled exactly on the London MP.
I am sure that neither one behaved worse than the other by our standards.
British police were guilty of the same behaviour towards strikers in the early 20th Century.

The IRB may have been secret but if it was to have any hope of fighting the British out of Ireland, it would need many more than its tiny fringe membership to achieve anything.
But it could not recruit them.
Sinn Fein had the same aims but was not a secret organisation.
It published articles in The United Irishman and stood for elections.
Unfortunately no-one was interested.

Jim, is WIKI wrong on the Land League?
It says that the Irish Land question was resolved in 1903.


"The major land reforms came when Parliament passed laws in 1870, 1881, 1903 and 1909 that enabled most tenant farmers to purchase their lands, and lowered the rents of the others.[8] From 1870 and as a result of the Land War agitations and the Plan of Campaign of the 1880s, various British governments introduced a series of Irish Land Acts. William O'Brien played a leading role in the 1902 Land Conference to pave the way for the most advanced social legislation in Ireland since the Union, the Wyndham Land Purchase Act of 1903.This Act set the conditions for the break-up of large estates and gradually devolved to rural landholders, and tenants' ownership of the lands. It effectively ended the era of the absentee landlord, finally resolving the Irish Land Question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_National_Land_League