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Editorial

‘We have murder by the throat’

So claimed British Prime Minister David Lloyd George in a speech at London’s Guildhall on 9 November 1920 in response to the IRA’s escalating guerrilla war. Already, in September, the demoralised and depleted RIC had been augmented by Auxiliary Cadets in an effort to counter IRA flying columns and ‘fight fire with fire’. And in … Read more

Categories Editorial, Issue 6 (November/December 2020), Volume 28

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