BELFAST RB BOOKLET 2020 - Flipbook - Page 31
Ci t y of Belf ast Grand Bl ack Chapt er - Dem onst rat i on Bookl et 2020
Given that General Petraeus' speech was made prior to last
year's Westminster Parliamentary Election, only time will
tell, however if the incumbent of No 10, Premier Boris
Johnston ALSO remains true to his personal commitment
made later in the Queen's Speech during the opening of
Parliament; that members of our own military services will
not only be preventable from vexatious prosecution but that
his promise, must be seen to be done, without concession
to those political apologists for murder within our society.
Or will it be like our caption, having to tell future generations
... "sorry kids, seems like we did it all for nothing!!
ULSTER SPECIAL CONSTABULARY ASSOCIATION
1970 ~ Patron: The Rt. Hon. Viscount Brookeborough H.M.L. ~ 2020
The Ulster Special Constabulary was formed against the background of conflict
over Irish independence and the partition of Ireland whereby the IRA launched a
series of guerrilla campaigns in pursuit of independence from Great Britain.
Back in 1812, when he became the Chief Secretary of Ireland Sir Robert Peel created
a network of local Constabularies and Police Forces to tackle rampage and
lawlessness, none moreso for the midland and southern Provinces of Ireland where
three, the Munster, Leinster and Connaught Constabulary were raised, although at
that time, none was initially created for the fourth, northern Province of Ulster.
There were also various other compliment belonging to the Roman
established police services already in Catholic community.
being namely: the Derry Municipal; Belfast
Dublin City however still retained the Dublin
Borough, Irish Revenue and the Harbour Metropolitan Police along with its Special
Police Forces; whilst in the City of Dublin Constables, who were unarmed.
there were the Dublin Metropolitan and the
With the rest of the country now fully
Dublin City Police with the Irish Constabulary engaged in the Great War, the Irish
equally operational in the midlands and Republican Brotherhood (later the IRA)
southern parts of Ireland.
soon saw Britain's difficulty as their
After the Special Constables (Ireland) cowardly opportunity to instigate an
Act became law in 1832, officers were uprising, in and around Dublin, during the
recruited to assist both the Metropolitan weekend of Easter, 1916.
Even following the immediate imposition of
and Dublin Police, following which all
previous Constabularies outside the City martial law to curtail the soon-to-fail
of Dublin were either disbanded or insurrection, during those riotous few days of
Holy Week however, many members of the
recruited into the Irish Constabulary.
Four years later King William IV, as reigning Royal Irish Constabulary and officers
Monarch, granted the Royal prefix to the Irish belonging to the Dublin Metropolitan as well
Constabulary which meant there were now as Special, Constabularies were brutally
two Police Forces on the Island of Ireland. murdered by the forebears of the present day
Republican Movement.
Faithful to the Crown, thirty percent of
Later, as the Irish War of Independence of
the Royal Irish Constabulary officers came 1919, began to take hold right across the
from the Protestant community with the Island Unionists, resident in the Province of
other seventy percent of its full Ulster realised it was only a matter of time
IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN - 29 - AND THE FUTURE OF THE LIVING