
wyvernfriend
Written on May 5, 2016
Interesting read, p48-49 features a raid on the co-op my grandfather helped found. This raid (and a reputed second raid) led to bankrupcy and debt for a lot of the locals, as the insurance company refused to pay out, "act of war" don't you know.
He examines some of the myths about the Black and Tans in Ireland and comes to the conclusion that the bad behaviour was down to what was permitted by senior staff and what people thought was fair. Most of the recruits were not bad people, they just had things happen to them that caused them to lash out.
I find the comment at the end that the whole thing was like a "large-scale version of the Stanford Prison Experiment, in Ireland" worth thinking about, because a lot of the occupancy of Ireland was something like that, very broken but the leaders didn't acknowledge this. It will be interesting to see how this is handled in the decade of commemoration.
He examines some of the myths about the Black and Tans in Ireland and comes to the conclusion that the bad behaviour was down to what was permitted by senior staff and what people thought was fair. Most of the recruits were not bad people, they just had things happen to them that caused them to lash out.
I find the comment at the end that the whole thing was like a "large-scale version of the Stanford Prison Experiment, in Ireland" worth thinking about, because a lot of the occupancy of Ireland was something like that, very broken but the leaders didn't acknowledge this. It will be interesting to see how this is handled in the decade of commemoration.