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A hundred years ago the Black and Tans arrived in Ireland
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A Black and Tan in Dublin, smoking and carrying a Lewis gun, February 1921
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Their scruffy, improvised uniforms of khaki and black soon gave them their nickname: the Black and Tans.
No fewer than 8,000 British fighting men were sent across the Irish Sea in yet another attempt to quell the rebellious Irish.
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