""Tans" but those self same people feel it appropriate to pass over the reasons the "Black and Tans" and the "Auxiliaries" came into existence. These were the result of Sinn Fein winning the 1918 election and their failure to outrightly condemn the murder of a policeman lawfully engaged in escorting a delivery of explosives to a quarry that was attacked by members of the IRA (who obviously needed those explosives for some perfectly legal and peaceful purpose no doubt)."
Two yeas of rape, mass murder, torture, terrorism and pillage because of the "failure to outrightly condemn the murder of a policeman lawfully engaged in escorting a delivery of explosives to a quarry"
Are you joking?
The Tans were sent in to soften up the Irish people to accept a forced-though treaty which partitioned Ireland - like the executions of the Rising leaders, it failed miserably and backfired.
The treaty was eventually forced through at gunpoint.
I know somebody has already put this up but worth a revisit
Jim Carroll