Winston Churchill, British Secretary of State for War, sent the Black and Tans into Ireland on March 25, 1920. It was a fatal mistake by the British that drove Irish opposition to British rule to new heights.
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100 years since burning of Cork by British forces
Updated / Friday, 11 Dec 2020
13:40 In all my life and in all tales of fiction that I have read, I have never experienced such orgies of murder, arson and looting as I have witnessed during the past 16 days with the RIC Auxiliaries. It baffles description and we are supposed to be officers and gentlemen. There are quite a number of decent fellows and likewise a number of ruffians.
This extract from an intercepted letter written by Charles Schultze - one of the approximately 1500 ex-British army officers who joined the RIC Auxiliary Division - gives a remarkable insight into the make-up of what was effectively a paramilitary strikeforce introduced when the RIC could no longer cope with the scale of guerrilla warfare sweeping Ireland and Munster in particular.