Tales of the R.I.C. — Anonymous

Originally published in 1921.

Tales of the R.I.C. are a series of anonymous short stories that appeared first in Blackwood's Magazine in 1920 and 1921 and then in book form in the latter year. Strongly unionist and anti-republican, they are based on episodes in the Royal Irish Constabulary's struggle against the Irish Republican Army during what Lloyd George described as the Irish “police war” of 1919-21. Writers on the war, both popular and scholarly, have cited the Tales; but the value of the stories as an historical source cannot be assessed until its anonymous author is identified. The Tales themselves -- some tragic some funny in a sinister way, some just plain odd -- provide no clue to the author's identity.

-- Oxford Journals

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CONTENTS OF Tales of the R.I.C. [Royal Irish Constabulary]

I. THE INFORMER.
II. ON THE RUN.
III. THE LANDING OF ARMS.
IV. THE RED CROSS.
V. THE R.M.
VI. AN OUTLAW.
VII. THE STRANGER WITHIN THE GATES.
VIII. MR BRIGGS' ISLAND.
IX. THE REWARD OF LOYALTY.
X. POTEEN.
XI. THE MAYOR'S CONSCIENCE.
XII. A BRUTAL MURDER.
XIII. SEAL ISLAND.
XIV. A FAMILY AFFAIR.
XV. THE AMERICAN NURSE.
XVI. FATHER JOHN.
XVII. THE BOG CEMETERY.
XVIII. A JEW IN GAELIC CLOTHING.
XIX. MOUNTAIN WARFARE.
XX. THE GREAT ROUND UP.