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  • #32
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,589 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    One grandad was in the old IRA the other was in the Black and Tans

    we're still collecting both pensions :pac:


  • #33
    PK2008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭PK2008


    My grandparents were in the Black and Tans..


    Oh how we laughed at their stories of Irish people using hurling sticks as guns...

    ....how precious


  • #34
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    RA one side,
    other side fought in the Caunnaught Rangers.


  • #35
    gernon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭gernon


    Tell them nuthin our fella


  • #36
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    My Grandads were in the British army. lol

    /traitorfamily


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  • #37
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    PK2008 wrote: »
    My grandparents were in the Black and Tans..
    actually I've always thought there must be some descendants of black and tans here in Ireland I'm sure they didn't all go home.

    Scarlet for them


  • #38
    yeahimhere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭yeahimhere


    later10 wrote: »
    actually I've always thought there must be some descendants of black and tans here in Ireland I'm sure they didn't all go home.

    Scarlet for them

    Remember watching a documentary about the gangs in Limrick - a lot of the main families have connections to the black and tans.


  • #39
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    I was in the GPO during the Easter Rising.


  • #40
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    My grandfather was in the IRA. Apparently there was an 'incident' which he refused point blank to ever discuss with his family :eek:. The family overheard bits of information when 'the lads' would come over for funerals and the like.

    My other grandfather was in the British army. That should've made family occasions a laugh.


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    My grandmother's parents let a fugitive on the run from the Black&Tans stay with them, knowing it would mean certain death for them if he was found. She had vivid memories of him babysitting her while her parents were at some fair. Supposedly he got word that the fair was going to be ambushed, so he flung her on to his shoulders and ran to warn them.

    A greataunt, I think, worked in the GPO when it was taken over and apparently she sent a letter home describing Pearce as being really polite.
    ng really polite.


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  • #42
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Toby Take a Bow wrote: »
    My grandfather was in the IRA. Apparently there was an 'incident' which he refused point blank to ever discuss with his family :eek:.

    Was it something like this?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj0_l696dEk


  • #43
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    Was it something like this?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj0_l696dEk

    That was probably it. And then he murdered all the rest of the people there.


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