Black and Tan

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Black and Tan

Member of a British auxiliary force employed in Ireland against the republicans (1920 – 21). When Irish nationalist agitation intensified after World War I, many Irish police resigned and were replaced by these temporary English recruits, who dressed in a mixed "black and tan" outfit because of a shortage of uniforms. In their efforts to thwart the terrorism of the Irish Republican Army, the Black and Tans themselves engaged in brutal reprisals.

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Black and Tans 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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