June 1920 saw the new military figures appointed to take charge of policing in Ireland prepare the ground for legislation which would give British forces a freer hand in dealing with the IRA. However, attempts to use the RIC to assist the army as scouts started a mutiny in Kerry and the publication of an inflammatory speech given by the Divisional Commissioner led to his killing a few weeks later. At the other side of the world reports of conditions in Ireland caused many Irishmen in the Connaught Ranger to refuse to carry out military duties. As British tactics in Ireland hardened, this was a sign of the resistance they would face.
References:
Jeremiah Mee - http://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/bureau-of-military-history-1913-1921/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0379.pdf
Gerald and Osbert Smyth - https://www.sinton-family-trees.com/smythsofthebann/apx-c.php
The Connaught Rangers’ Mutiny of 1920 - https://independentleft.ie/connaught-rangers-mutiny-1920/
The Connaught Ranger’s Mutiny June 1920 - https://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/commemorationnationalism-empire-and-memory-the-connaught-rangers-mutiny-june-1920/
The Connaught Rangers’ Mutiny India, July 1920 - https://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/the-connaught-rangers-mutiny-india-july-1920/
T. Ryle Dwyer - “Tans, Terror and Troubles”
D.M. Leeson - “The Black and Tans”
William Sheehan - “Hearts & Mines”
Paul McMahon - “British Spies & Irish Rebels”
D.M. Leeson - “The Black & Tans”
Social Media:
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Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/maniacalinc
Main Sources:
Military Archives - http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie
Century Ireland - https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland
Diarmuid Lynch, Irish Revolutionary - http://diarmuidlynch.weebly.com/
Atlas of the Irish Revolution
Maurice Walsh - “Bitter Freedom”
Charles Townshend - "The Republic"
Michael Hopkinson - ”The Irish War of Independence”
Diarmuid Ferriter - “A Nation and not a Rabble”
Richard Abbot - “Police Casualties in Ireland 1919 - 1922”
Photos:
Military Archives
NLI Flickr account
Wiki Commons
