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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. ....
Terror in Cork: the burning of a city It was an act of revenge that destroyed a city and terrorised its inhabitants. Gerry White tells the story of the Burning of Cork • 10 Dec 2020 On the morning of 11 December 1920, a climate of fear and uncertainty hung over the city of Cork. Though Christmas was a mere two weeks away, the people of the city had little to be cheerful about. That morning, Cork was a city at war. The previous eleven months had seen Cork No. 1 Brigade of the IRA intensify its campaign of guerrilla warfare against the forces of the Crown. In response, the British authorities had sent Black and Tans reinforcements to the RIC, imposed curfew, introduced Martial Law and deployed K Company of the Auxiliary Division of the RIC to Victoria Barracks. A series of nocturnal arson attacks on the City Hall, Sinn Féin offices, business premises and the homes of republican sympathisers had also taken place. ....