#OtD 25 Mar 1920 Black and Tans sent by British politician Winston Churchill arrived in Ireland for the first time: new recruits with makeshift uniforms recruited to the colonial police force, mostly former British soldiers, who committed many atrocities https://t.co/3qWchiwu2p https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9762/black-and-tans-arrive-in-ireland?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon