The Gentle Black and Tan.

[Wolverine]

[daithimac]

god thats bad

[QuizMaster]

That's terrible.
It was the Auxies burned Cork, not the Tans.

Other than that I liked it.

[Cael]

Pretty much all revisionist "history" is based on this concept.

[Fir Bolg]

That's terrible.
It was the Auxies burned Cork, not the Tans.

Other than that I liked it.

It was also the Auxies who responsible for Croke Park on Bloody Sunday and not the tans. Namely I Company ADRIC.

[Fir Bolg]

That's terrible.
It was the Auxies burned Cork, not the Tans.

Other than that I liked it.

It was also the Auxies who responsible for Croke Park on Bloody Sunday and not the tans. Namely I Company ADRIC.

[The Analyser]

That's terrible.
It was the Auxies burned Cork, not the Tans.

Other than that I liked it.

It was also the Auxies who responsible for Croke Park on Bloody Sunday and not the tans. Namely I Company ADRIC.

I was just about to add that in. Well spotted. BTW that song/poem/whatever really is utter tripe. What bin was in found in?

[Wolverine]

Mine. I don't think the author had genuine revisionism in mind when he wrote it (after all, all history is revisionism) but rather the Kevin Myers school of non-thought.

[Cael]

That's terrible.
It was the Auxies burned Cork, not the Tans.

Other than that I liked it.

It was also the Auxies who responsible for Croke Park on Bloody Sunday and not the tans. Namely I Company ADRIC.

The "Tans" has become a generic term for all the brit occupation forces.

[badinage]

The "Tans" has become a generic term for all the brit occupation forces.

Indeed, I remember one of my teachers referring to soccer as "that aul Black n' Tan game"

It seems "Black and Tans" became synonmous with 'the English', even though 20% of them were Irish, and however many more were Scots, Welsh, etc