the RIC men generally conducted themselves with forbearance and dignity in the face of a ruthless terror campaign directed against them by Collins. Their unwillingness to respond in kind prompted the British government to import the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries to wage a counter-terror campaign
This is taking “The IRA Was Never Right” to new heights. Neither the Black and Tans nor the IRA, but the good honest men of the RIC – who were of course fighting for a cause everyone could believe in (viz. making all that nasty political conflict go away so that the plain people of Ireland could shut up and get back to work and never mind who rules the place, sure and who would care about that anyway).
Awful stuff.
