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After nearly a year and a half of the IRA killing police officers, soldiers and Irish Unionist civilians the British government attempted to appease them by staging a mass release of IRA prisoners in the spring of 1920 and removing many of the counter insurgency powers of the military. This backfired disastrously with a huge increase in the killing of Royal Irish Constabulary officers by the IRA and the security forces and Irish Unionist vigilantes ('Loyalists') conducting revenge attacks against the IRA and their supporters. The British government then launched a new offensive against the IRA, recruiting army officers who after a few weeks training were deployed to Dublin to conduct plain clothes surveillance and recruit informers.
Of the 35 targets it is estimated 9 were killed with 7 of those being members of the Cairo Gang. The Cairo Gang (officially the Dublin District Intelligence Service) had an operational strength of between 80-120 strong and one of its' members, Robert Jeune stated that Bloody Sunday barely affected its' operations at all. The Cairo Gang would continue to operate, its' intelligence allowing the security forces to inflict swingeing defeats upon the IRA in incidents such as the raid on Brunswick House and the Dublin Custom House.
British Intelligence chief Ormonde Winter would be awarded the CBE and would later retire from the army as a Brigadier-General. He was rumoured to have been involved in various European espionage plots and would infiltrate the British Fascist movement before serving in World War 2 with the Finnish Army against the Soviets in his 60s. He would later publish his memoirs, A Winter's Tale, and die in his bed aged 87.
Michael Collins would later sign the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922, accepting a slightly enhanced form of Home Rule in exchange for de facto separation for Northern Ireland. This would split the IRA into 2 factions, the pro-Treaty IRA accepting the deal arguing that any further violence would put them in an even weaker position and the anti-Treaty IRA countering it was no more than the IPP could have achieved if they had peacefully accepted partition. This resulted in civil war with Collins killed in an ambush of his convoy.
Arthur Griffiths was also a signatory of the Treaty and would die of exhaustion related illnesses shortly afterwards.
Mark Sturgis would continue a successful civil service career and publish his memoirs, 'The Last Days of Dublin Castle'.
Conor Clune would be killed in Dublin Castle along with 2 other prisoners on the night of Bloody Sunday. Republican legend claimed that he was shot in revenge for the deaths of the IRA's victims but there is no evidence to support this, the Auxillaries who shot them testifying they tried to overpower one of their guards and seize his rifle prompting them to open fire.
Traditionally law enforcement in Ireland was handled by the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) with Dublin policed by the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP). By 1920 dozens of RIC/DMP officers had been assassinated and hundreds more resigned due to intimidation and in protest at the government's repeated releases of IRA prisoners which continued right up to May. In response ex-soldiers were recruited to replace them, initially wearing a mixture of police and army uniforms and thus nicknamed the 'Black and Tans' after a famous Irish foxhunt. A sub-unit was the Auxillary Division of the RIC (ADRIC or Auxies), a team of ex-officers distinguished by their 'Tam O'Shanter' headwear (berets with a bobbles in the middle) who specialised in raids with the regular British Army in support. The Black and Tans would be demonised as the bogeymen of popular Irish Nationalist mythology and be blamed for all vigilante revenge attacks by the security forces against the IRA and their supporters.
In 1912 the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) persuaded the British government to grant Ireland Home Rule, limited self government with provision for progressive full independence in the same manner as Australia, Canada, New Zealand etc This was strongly opposed by Irish Unionists (Irish people who wished to remain British and overwhelmingly various denominations of Protestantism) who feared that they would be discriminated against by Irish Nationalists (Irish people who wished full independence from the rest of the British Isles and overwhelmingly Roman Catholic) who would not support Britain in wartime. Unionists formed their own 100,000 strong armed militia, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) to demand that if Ireland was to be allowed to secede from the United Kingdom the six most North-Easterly and pro-Unionist counties of Ireland should be allowed to secede and remain part of Britain. In response to this Irish Nationalists formed their own militia, the Irish Volunteers to force Northern Ireland to remain part of Home Rule Ireland. Civil War threatened but World War One then broke out and both sides went to fight for Britain in the conflict. In 1916 a German backed uprising by an extremist faction of the Irish Volunteers killed over 400 people but the execution of the ringleaders created an outpouring of sympathy amongst Irish Nationalists for the rebels. Under this political pressure the British government eventually released the prisoners and in the election of 1918 they were elected to parliament in a sweeping election victory, giving them a majority within Ireland. This outraged Irish Unionists who accused Nationalists of voting for those whom they considered purely mass murderers and traitors and made them more determined than ever to have Northern Ireland remain British. In January 1919 the nationalist IRA (Irish Republican Army) began killing Irish police officers, soldiers and Unionist/moderate Nationalist civilians whom they accused of supporting the security forces dubbing them 'informers'.
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- When did Resistance premiere?January 6, 2019
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- What is the plot of Resistance?Set in late 1920, Resistance is a sequel series to the 2016 miniseries Rebellion, which was set during the 1916 Easter Rising.
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