16 FEBRUARY
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1 OCTOBER
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27 MAY
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11 DECEMBER
BRITISH “BLACK AND TANS” AUXILIARY POLICE SACK THE CITY OF CORK. During a few hours of indiscriminate arson and looting, on the evening of Saturday 11 December 1920, the British Black and Tans auxiliary police force burned down three hundred homes and forty business premises in the city of Cork where the vast majority of…
9 JULY
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17 FEBRUARY
MILITARY COURTS ALLOWED TO ORDER THE FLOGGING OF CHILDREN [ 17 February 1939 ] On 17 February 1939, the British run mandate government in Palestine introduced a law allowing military courts to order the whipping of children ‘with a light rod or cane or birch,’ of up to twenty four strokes. CALLAGHAN – ‘I WON’T…