Well researched and historically accurate. Well done, there are so many inaccurate videos depicting the Revolutionary period online, great to see a good one.

My paternal grandfather, whom I never met because he died in 1965, served in the British Army during WW1. He volunteered at 17 and joined the Royal Lancashire Regt- which eventually became Kings Own Royal Border Regt. He 'celebrated' his 18th birthday in the mud of the trenches in Ypres. In 1917, he was badly injured by 5.9 inch shell fire in a school yard in Ypres. He was subsequently evacuated home to Blighty, where he was treated for his injuries. He was duly declared unfit for further service on the western front, and he was sent to Dublin, where he was part of the garrison at Kilmainham gaol. He spoke to my father about the Black & Tans, he despised them and referred to them as, "The scum of the British Army." He was well aware of the poor discipline and routine brutality, which he thoroughly detested. The Black & Tans deployment was a huge mistake, they were a great recruiting Sgt for the IRA.

@liamkatt6434

7 ай бұрын

Great account. There are many cases of British army officers and men forcing tans to stop what they are doing at gunpoint.

@user-xp4wb5qw4p

4 ай бұрын

The most important recruiting Sgt for the IRA was brits being in Ireland in the first place

@darrenfarrell-bn2cb

3 ай бұрын

Normal British Tommy Had no time for them, or A lot of the Regular RIC Which a lot of them Went Into The Garda after the Treaty , Tans Were pure Bastard Led Drunken RPSTs . Facts are Here for anyone who Questions.

Excellent. Have just discovered this page. Subbed.

Very good work on that video! As a non native English speaker, the provided subtitles are very much appreciated!

@TheIrishNationLives

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! The Irish accent can be a bit hard even for native speakers, the auto captioning struggles a lot! I haven't been able to correct the auto captions on some of my most recent videos yet, hoping to have them all done in the next few weeks.

@misssparky5574

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheIrishNationLives I,m born and raised in the uk but I can clearly understand every word on the video.

@daisy13joyce

3 жыл бұрын

@Davo Nulan your reading is not that good either, the lady did not put I'M she put I'm which is correct at the start of a sentence.

@martinmanifold2241

3 жыл бұрын

Just a copy of wikipedia script

“The English are gone Bull” “Gone, but not forgotten”.

A very well blanced view of history.

The first batches of British recruits to the RIC were arriving on Irish shores 100 years ago. Initially dressed in a mixture of police and military uniform, they were all in the rifle-green/black of the RIC by winter. The Auxiliaries on the other hand were actively encouraged to wear different military and police uniforms and even to mix them. This caused confusion at the time and continues to do so today. A lot of the pictures of "Black and Tans" that you will find online and see in newspapers in the years ahead are actually of the Auxiliaries.

@chrissanchez2998

2 жыл бұрын

The Irish Nation lives is awesome I like the Irish history very interesting

@Shelldrake489

4 ай бұрын

The auxiliaries were all former British army officers as opposed to the Black and Tans who were ex British army enlisted soldiers, most of the crimes committed in Ireland by the auxiliaries were attributed to the Tans, the only tan executed for crimes in Ireland is William Mitchell who was executed for the murder of a justice of the peace in Dunlavin Co. Wicklow, the JP was a Protestant and a loyalist which is why the authorities had to take any action, William Mitchell’s remains in the ground in Mountjoy prison.

Fantastic to hear a correct telling of this awful part of our Nations history

My grandparents home, in Tullow Co Carlow, was trashed twice by these 'troubled' ex-soldiers. They behaved like animals my father told me ! Robert Doyle, Scotland

@jdoyle6821

4 ай бұрын

THE DREGS OF CROMWELL.

Mr Treacy,, a friend's father, like my family, Irish, living in Birmingham UK, was good friends with a local man when, to his horror, he found that he had been a Black and Tan. Never spoke to him again.

A great drink .

Irish history should be mandatory in English schools.

@dannyboy5517

3 жыл бұрын

Education should be mandatory in English schools

@RobRoyBoaz

3 жыл бұрын

@@dannyboy5517 Well said mate. Well said.

@dannyboy5517

3 жыл бұрын

@ASCALON I guess that explains the reason why English history is not taught properly in English schools then

@dannyboy5517

3 жыл бұрын

@ASCALON Poor boy living in the past

@dannyboy5517

3 жыл бұрын

@ASCALON Poor boy

Thank you for an in depth analysis of the infamous Black and Tans. Broken soliders with PTSD armed a recipe for disaster.

@paulkelly660

3 жыл бұрын

Steve, if you listen to the description, it tells you they were not PTSD or criminals. But in fairness, because of the war and the situation they found themselves in. They would have been prone to violence.

@RobertK1993

3 жыл бұрын

No Ulster Scots Presbyterians in the Black and Tans once again to afraid to fight IRA.

@tonyhendrix8075

3 жыл бұрын

@@RobertK1993 sorry but you are wrong mate,there was plenty of filth that came from Scotland,mainly from the West I might add. I actually knew one of their relations who lived in Carfin,very few knew he was a relative of the bastard B&T. The most annoying thing of all was he was a member of the Carfin Hibs club,he also lived there.

My great uncle was in the IRA at that time. He killed several B and T. I got the stories directly from him. Proud of him. Wished he had killed more.

@1916jamesconnolly

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a great man to be proud of. Was he pro or anti-treaty?

@RobRoyBoaz

3 жыл бұрын

@@1916jamesconnolly I am not sure. When I met him he was a very old man, and I was just a young teenager. During the 1916 Rising however, he was actually inside the GPO when the Brits pounded it with field artillery. He told me what it like. Spooky thing is that circa 2010 I was watching a documentary on The Rising, and watched original footage shot from behind a Brit field gun firing at the GPO. After a couple of minutes I realised that my Great Uncle was inside that building being pounded. And here was me sitting in South Africa all these years later. Very eerie.

@1916jamesconnolly

3 жыл бұрын

@@RobRoyBoaz We will never have men like that again. If it had not been for brave men like your great Uncle making the ultimate sacrifice for freedom we would still be under British rule. God bless him.

@RobRoyBoaz

3 жыл бұрын

@@1916jamesconnolly Thank you for those comments. Much appreciated. I am extremely proud of him. He stepped up to the plate like thousands of others of his generation, and put his life on the line so Ireland could be free. Part of that job has still to be done. When I met him I proudly showed him my LP record of Irish Rebel Songs. I still have it. You might know it. On the cover it shows a ploughman type man with his arms stretched out and behind him is The Irish Tricolour. He told me the story behind every one of those songs on that LP. Then he sang songs that had never been commercially recorded but had been passed down from father to son so to speak. I feel privileged to have met a man who made history. All the very best to you. KTF.

@gordonrides840

3 жыл бұрын

Did you speak to him through a meadium

Let Dan breen at them lol 🇮🇪

I think saying that the black and tan where not prisoners let free to terrors the people of Ireland is even worse if this is the english standard of what descent solders are that fight for them,

@skippership7

3 жыл бұрын

Wrong nationality I'm afraid, it staggers me how people still get this mixed up and is based purely on either ignorance or xenophobia.

@tomellis4324

2 жыл бұрын

@@skippership7 can you enlarge on that contribution please?

They had uniforms to identify them then, now they come by stealth in sleeper cells.

My grandfather served aged 16 from 1916 to 1921 as a IRA volunteer but never got HIS medal

@davekeating.

11 ай бұрын

Did he apply and not qualify?

Teach the Irish how to forget, and maybe get the English to be humble enough to remember 🤔?

They will never criminalise the Irish struggle 🇮🇪32 history proves this beir bua erin go bragh

11:10

A lot of RIC Went straight into the Garda a The time and Carried On , ( Funny Feeling PSNI Will follow suit shortly) Some in already 2024 .

My cousin was Joseph O'Sullivan and his brother Patrick O'Sullivan Leaders of the ira

Irish history is something the English should remember, and the Irish should forget...

@Hereward47

4 ай бұрын

Bore off

@ryanflanigan6362

4 ай бұрын

Don't tread on me... Limey.

@10 seconds in Dublin Metropolitan Police. Not RIC. Note their height in comparison to the British Army officers.

The worst of the worst black in tans ex prisoners who killed innocent civilians 🇮🇪32

5.44 I believe this is a photograph of British soldiers withdrawn to their barracks under the terms of the truce. They are watching a shootout between the different factions of the IRA and do not seem to be that upset.

@fieldagentryan

Жыл бұрын

the british crown king and master brought the word police from their german homeland from the word Gestapolizia ...

@freebeerfordworkers

11 ай бұрын

@@fieldagentryan Police - First attested in English in the early 15th century, originally in a range of senses encompassing '(public) policy; state; public order', the word police comes from Middle French police ('public order, administration, government'),[9] in turn from Latin politia,[10] which is the romanization of the Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeia) 'citizenship, administration, civil polity'.[11] This is derived from πόλις (polis) 'city

@fieldagentryan

11 ай бұрын

@@freebeerfordworkers geheiem staat polizie(ge st apolizie) goring preceded by the pRussian secret police ...whereas i am a pagan barbarian that lives beyond the pale in the common sense brehon(brain) jurisdiction of which ancient christian country ? clue ] no slavery or metal monetised currency for the purposes of tort

@liamkatt6434

7 ай бұрын

It was actually taken right at the start of the tan war and was the fortifications hastily thrown up at Dublin Castle. They are RIC not 'British soldiers' . Please google 'British soldiers' so that you can see what they looked like. If they do not look 'that upset', it is because they are totally unaware of the severe beating that they are going to get. Like their successors in NI decades later. They never learn :-) The IRA wiped the floor with Britain not once but twice. TAL.

@freebeerfordworkers

7 ай бұрын

You never learn on both occasions they wanted out and they left the resultant mess for Irish governments to clean up. @@liamkatt6434

Irish never give up against British occupied when black and tans roaming on Irish streets what counter produced by IRA....

Great channel...pity bout the trolls ...most of them keep changing their names but you'd recognise them easy enough...lol

What people forget is this was a different age when I was young my parents had a pub in Manchester I used to talk to the old men who had fought in the world war some had been black and tans one thing I noticed is how to me now they seemed to be loyal to king and country they believed they were doing it for the king as far as they being short and only weighing 10 stone that was normal in Britain at that time many were powerful ex miners and had spent years killing the Kings enemies its strange how the Irish have forgotten the the Irish have fought all over the world as mercenaries for money and fame .the alamo custers la St stand Waterloo South America the US civil war so don't condem others who have done the same and yes I'm of Irish decent

@tomellis4324

2 жыл бұрын

Mmmmmm " Irish decent" haaaa?

@robertcrowther8202

2 жыл бұрын

Yes Tom I was adopted my father was a irishman from mayo .my mother was of Scottish and English decent my dna. Tests tell me I am one of the one in 12 irishmen who are genetic decendents..of the u .Neill dynasty... so why the sneer

@michaelahern6821

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertcrowther8202 He can sneer if he likes...have you any idea what the tans done in Ireland...?

@robertcrowther8202

2 жыл бұрын

Mr ahern yes I am a keen student of irish history the r. I. C. And the British army did not want the black and tans the man behind the idea was the anti irish Churchill who seemed to have a low opinion of the irish believing they were incapable of ruling themselves

@michaelahern6821

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertcrowther8202 Means nothing really black and tans British army two peas from the same pod..both occupiers both despised..

Looking at the information on the black and tans many of them were brave men who had fought though out the first world they were hard men some were killers some ended up being hanged later in Britain for murder the main problems with them was lack of leadership you must remember that all of Europe was in turmoil after World War one with fighting and genocide ethnic conflict Ireland was not alone in this type of warfare

-All english must see the sufferring they have done to poor Ireland. The cruelty of the british is beyond all human rights...

@Genekellystand

3 жыл бұрын

@terry phidaheights terry , a man of many words ,and lack of knowledge ,bless him.

@rabsmiff

3 жыл бұрын

I reckon the Nazis took the biscuit in the' cruelty to others' stakes, they would have crammed Millions of you lot into cattle trucks and shipped you off to Death Factories. Same as they would have done to the Brits. They bombed you with 'planes for Christ sake, in the North and the South.

@AnnesleyPlaceDub70

3 жыл бұрын

@@Genekellystand ignorance is bliss for many a clown.

@rechtsradicaillou

3 жыл бұрын

@@rabsmiff lol wtaf. theyd have no need to. Nazis and Ireland would be like Rome invading Britannia and un-Romanized Hibernia being left alone. Not like theres a huge Jewish or Romani population in Ireland. Plus the Free State was a bit sympathetic to the Germans in WW1. If they ever bombed Ireland its mostly because they lost their flight paths as they were bombing western cities like Liverpool and Cardiff. Ireland never posed strategic importance to the Germans during the Battle of Britain.

@Minime163

3 жыл бұрын

@terry phidaheights the original nazi's

A proud force the Royal Irish Constabulary.

@aidanjoyce3248

7 ай бұрын

Proud of what ffs

@12redwine

4 ай бұрын

@aidanjoyce3248 Oh dear, I seemed to have upset someone.

Easy to point the finger at the english ...there was a mix scot welsh and english in the ranks ....even irish in the ranks . There is no english government or parliament ....the english are under direct rule from the UK gov .

@petergrossett9236

3 жыл бұрын

The English are under Westminster England rule. The English can outvote the Welsh, Scots, and, Ulster loyalists twice over. The Enlish invaded Wales and subdued them, invaded Ireland, invaded Scotland too. The population of Scotland was no bigger in Mary Stuarts rule than it was in Sir William Wallaces, two hundreds years later, due to wave after wave of invasion by the English

@martinmanifold2241

3 жыл бұрын

@@petergrossett9236 😂😂😂 you reading nationalist and tourist nonsense ...research scottish king james the VI ..the scottish king who took over England and united the kingdoms ....resesrch king henry VIII and his family ( when the welsh ruled england ) ....England have never successfully invaded scotland ...but a scottish king birthed us the UK

@martinmanifold2241

3 жыл бұрын

@@petergrossett9236 check out the bruces campaign in ireland ....when english and irish troops stood side by side on irish soil to repel the scots under the bruces who were on a murderous campaign from north to south of ireland

@petergrossett9236

3 жыл бұрын

@@martinmanifold2241 I'm Scots/Irish.

@petergrossett9236

3 жыл бұрын

@@martinmanifold2241 not quite, king James VI, becameJames I of England. The Union was,Scotland was united into England. The Union flag, then the George cross & Andrews saltire was an English flag, and still is. He may have brought the flag to Scotland perhaps, on his very rare visits. True his son lke he himself was crownned both King of Scots, and King of England.. Since 1707 the monarch wears the English crown only, up until today no English/British monarch has worn or been crowned with Scotlands royal crown, the honours of Scotland. The House of Stuart saw themselves more than just Scot, due to their marraige aliances. Suggested reading? I suggest you mug up on Scottish independenc & nationalism, the parcel of Rogues. Henry theVIII, and the rough wooing.

No surrender 🇬🇧

@tomellis4324

2 жыл бұрын

No shit Robert 😄😁

@michaelahern6821

2 жыл бұрын

To brexit is it.??.but...you did...How's life now...lol

@alanbaird6

7 ай бұрын

Brexit is your surrender to the corporate ruling classes, you as a Brit are now just a serf.

@Hereward47

4 ай бұрын

@@michaelahern6821How are you liking Sinn Féin’s diversity drive? Dublin starting to look like Lagos now. Unlucky

The black and tans were an awesome site and they sorted out he vi** IRA sc** good style.

@mkeibergin3775

Жыл бұрын

Hello mark, well the Saxons always loved their criminals, loved them so much they sent them to Ireland armed and dangerous, thankfully, we soon sorted them out and sent them back to you to fill your jails again. yours Winston Churchill

@liverpoolscottish6430

8 ай бұрын

Don't compare the old school IRA who fought in 1916 and fought the Tans with the PIRA scum of The Troubles. The old IRA blokes generally came out in the open to fight more often than not- as they did in the 1916 Easter uprising, they had guts, and they believed in what they were doing, they didn't set off remote control IED's in the north from the safety of Eire, they mostly fought head on. The Tans were an ill-disciplined, poorly led rabble. My paternal grandfather who served in the British Army during WW1 ended up in Dublin after being declared unfit for further service on the western front after being injured by shell fire. He served as Kilmainham prison and he was well aware of the dubious calibre of many of the Black & Tans, he described them to my father as, "The scum of the British Army." The Tans had a reputation for heavy drinking, poor discipline and resorting to brutality on a routine basis. They were one of the best recruiting Sgt's the IRA ever had.

@michealhand1001

4 ай бұрын

#Mark smith Rhymes with Twit😂