RIC

Examples

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• Did pupils or parents regard the teachers in the way that some Irish people were beginning to regard the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), as agents of the British Crown in Ireland or even as traitors?

  Academic text (1999)

• Thirdly, it was one of the few unequivocal defeats suffered by the British in the entire conflict, with six experienced members of the Auxiliary Division of the RIC killed outright and no IRA casualties inflicted in return.

  Blog text (5)

• Thomas lived in the RIC barracks, but in his conversations with Alphonsus, he never spoke of any of his mates.

  Fiction book (1994)

• As his father was a member of the increasingly unpopular RIC, Shea and his brother often became victims of school bullies.

  Academic text (1999)

• This strike greatly inhibited the effectiveness of the RIC's 1920 offensive against the IRA and forced the army, which was now playing a greater active role in assisting the police, to greatly enlarge their motor pool in Ireland.

  Blog text (5)

• The Black and Tans, so-called because of their odd makeshift uniforms of khaki army trousers and black RIC tunics, were men in whom the cruelty of war had become ingrained.

  Fiction book (1994)

• He now understood that the dead man was a policeman from the RIC, the Royal Irish Constabulary.

• As his father was a member of the increasingly unpopular RIC, Shea and his brother often became victims of school bullies.

• Did pupils or parents regard the teachers in the way that some Irish people were beginning to regard the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), as agents of the British Crown in Ireland or even as traitors?

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