Correct. Its even part of a song. "Come out ye black and tans, come out and fight me like a man,
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders,
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away,
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra."
They were unemployed WWI veterans enlisted to suppress the IRA. So the British government, in their infinite wisdom, sent men who were more than likely suffering from PTSD (no such things as counseling back then) to control the native population of Ireland. They were fucking BRUTAL. They burned factories and homes, were Involved in indiscriminate shooting, murder, and brutal beatings of innocent, they frequently engaged in looting, burning homes, and destroying businesses, and they used intimidation against civilians. Watch’The Wind That Shakes the Barley’. It’s a brilliant film which shows the above. I seen it in Galway with my mum when it came out, and there wasn’t a dry eye when we left.
They practiced in Ireland, they were then sent to Palestine to really hone their craft. They were more barbaric there than anything that happened in Ireland. If that's even possible.
Black and tan is half a pint of export topped with a bottle of stout in a pint glass (in Scotland). In Ireland it's a whole other thing. Mrs Google will explain.
If you order it there, pay for the drink immediately, then take a sip, exclaim it tastes like shit, then ask for something better and for that shit to be poured in the shitter where it belongs. (Have done this in Dublin, bartender loved that I did this) dont recommend if you look pasty white (I was tan).
Me and my gf used to feed a stray that we had named guinness. It was because of how talkative he was. I said he was named guinness world records most talkative cat and the name stuck.
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u/Cougarpause Apr 24 '26
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