Tag: Black & Tans

• Stories of Seamus No.19

  

  Sniper’s Moon – A story of the Irish War for Independence June is a month of short nights and long, warm days. But, for some, the long June nights proved to be no advantage, when it came to fulfilling their assigned tasks. It was not until midnight that darkness first began to really envelop the […]

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  May 2, 2021

  Factual, Fiction, History, Ireland, Legend, Short Story, Update

  Black & Tans, Guerillas, IRA, Ireland, Royal Irish Constabulary, War of Independence

• Krumm’s Riot 1920

  

  The RIC and the Black &Tans This last while I have been looking at various books concerning the ‘Irish War of Independence’ and have read many curious stories about participants and various incidents in what was a bloody and often cruel conflict. One story particularly caught my interest and concerns the mysterious shooting and murder […]

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  February 18, 2021

  Factual, History, Ireland, Legend, Short Story

  Assassination, Black & Tans, Ireland, Reprisals, Royal Irish Constabulary, War of Independence