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Black-&-Tans, those hard-bitten ex-Army men who were sent to Ireland in 1920 to shoot it out with the Nationalist guerrillas. Irish County Inspector Hannay (John Lodge) and British Captain Wiltshire of the Royal Intelligence Corps (John Loder) both dedicated to preserving British law & order, have captured a...
O Malley and his men had many a brush with the police, the Black & Tans, the British soldiers, waged a waspish war attacking isolated barracks and police stations, barricading roads, ambushing convoys. He was wounded half a dozen times. One unlucky morning he was captured. Put through a grisly third...
To newshawks Hibernian Sweeney later explained: "I recall that it was during King George's reign that the Black & Tans invaded Ireland. . . . Many of my relatives were among the victims of that outrage. ... I had nothing against the King personally, but he represented a symbol not in harmony with...
Armagh, where St. Patrick founded a church, monastery and school about 445 A. D., is a small city not in Catholic Irish Free State but in predominantly Protestant Northern Ireland. The Cathedral on the hilly site of St. Patrick's buildings is no longer Catholic. Because it was long...
Kerry fell madly in love with Lady Moira, who reciprocated just enough to keep him hopeful. Then one day when Kerry was down at the village, orders came from headquarters and Lady Moira was taken out and shot. Kerry went hell-for-leather to the nearest Black & Tan post, gave...