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Resignations and police casualties - Royal Irish Constabulary, 1919–1921

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Loyalist propaganda

'Gossip, rumour, and propaganda: depictions and perceptions of Irish revolutionary violence' - Brian Hughes

'Massacre of Irish Protestants' Propaganda pamphlet published by the Belfast News-letter in 1922, ‘Massacre of Irish Protestants’ – example of the ways in which the loyalist experience of revolution was being portrayed (The Deputy Keeper of the Records, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, D989/C/1/40).

‘Anarchy in the West of Ireland’ – Propaganda pamphlet published by the Irish Unionist Alliance in 1920

Samples from IRA intelligence files, 1922 (transcription)

Propaganda pamphlet published by the Irish Unionist Alliance in 1920, ‘The Truth About Ireland’ – example of the ways in which the loyalist experience of revolution was being portrayed (The Deputy Keeper of the Records, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, D989/C/1/40).

PowerPoint presentation for Brian Hughes' paper - 'Gossip, rumour, and propaganda: depictions and perceptions of Irish revolutionary violence'

Audio of Brian Hughes' paper - 'Gossip, rumour, and propaganda: depictions and perceptions of Irish revolutionary violence'

Brian Hughes unpublished paper - 'Gossip, rumour, and propaganda: depictions and perceptions of Irish revolutionary violence'

Brian Hughes unpublished paper - ‘Loyalists and loyalism in a southern Irish community, 1921–22’

Bureau of Military History Witness Statement by David McGuinness

Elizabeth Thompson - Irish Grants Committee claim

File of the military inquiry into the death of James Beale in Cork, 1921

Brian Hughes article - ‘Loyalists and loyalism in a southern Irish community, 1921–22’

Bureau of Military History Witness Statement by T.J. McArdle

Police Casualties 1919–1921

Resignations from the RIC for reasons of personal or family fear or intimidation, including cases where no reason was offered – used to compile Table 1.1.

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