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Nationality/Ethnicity of the Black and Tans?

riffmongous · 2013-04-25 20:48:16

Something I have wondered a few times now is if there is any records on the exact.. I will say ethnicity, of the members of the Black and Tans? I usually see them described as 'British' first world war veterans, but it would be very interesting to see if any and then how many of them were actually Irish. I just got the…

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#52 14-06-2013 4:59am

mathepac

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There is a poignant story documented by Paddy Hackett in his book "In Bloody Protest - North Tipperary's IRA Roll of Honour 1916 - 1926".

At about mid-night 25th November, 1920, armed and masked men broke into the house of Messrs McCurtain, Castle St. Nenagh, demanding to know the whereabouts of Denis Carey, a shop assistant employed there. The men, a local constable who acted as guide and two Black & Tans, roused Denis of Loughane, Templederry and Jim Moore, Mountrath from their beds and bundled them downstairs. Jim broke away and slammed the hall-door behind them. Stumbling over the hall-table, shots fired from outside through the letter-box sailed over Jim's head. He heard a fusillade from outside and thought Denis had been murdered.

As Denis lay mortally wounded in the street one of his abductors, a man living locally, raised his goggles and thrusting his face into Denis's demanded, "Do you know me now Dinny?".

Denis was taken to the Nenagh Infirmary where other Volunteers and his family pleaded to know the identity of the Tan who had raised his goggles and spoken to him. Denis refused to name the man saying "One death is enough". Denis died of his wounds at about 10:00pm without ever naming the man.

From reports in the Nenagh News, the Tipperary Vindicator and interviews with Jim Moore and others conducted by Paddy Hackett, quoted in his book.

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