Talk:Royal Irish Constabulary
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What became of RIC members after the creation of the Gardai? Did many join the new force? Did any RIC members face reprisals after disbandment?
"... there were many fewer Catholics in the higher ranks. " In English? Many fewer? I don't understand what this guy is on about! TheWickerMan
"Others however, faced with threatened or actual violent reprisals, fled with their families to Britain" (Quote from article as of today.) What evidence is there of reprisals or threatened reprisals? Cill Ros 22:24, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
See "The RUC 1922 - 1997" by Chris Ryder (ISBN 0 7493 2379 5) for details of reported reprisals against former members of the RIC, following disbandment of the force on 4 April 1922. These appear to have taken the form of beatings rather than actual killings but newspaper reports of the time refer to several abductions of "wanted" RIC members. During April sixty to seventy RIC men, with their families, are reported to have arrived in England each day, sometimes after having received written "deportation orders" from local IRA units. On the other hand, the new Irish authorities and even the IRA sometimes provided escorts for parties of former police travelling to ports or railway stations. A petition was made to the British Government by RIC members requesting protection when in transit from the disbandment centres in the south and accomodation in the form of camps or barracks upon arrival in England.
[edit] Six Counties
To the ex-RIC men, that's exactly what they were; six counties of Ireland.
- Talk:Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution of Ireland Demiurge 15:17, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- What's relevant is what they were officially called, not what the RIC men thought of them as. The RUC policed Northern Ireland! -- Necrothesp 15:33, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Armed & Irish
RIC was the first permanently-armed police force in UK. Trekphiler 10:50, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
