Talk:Royal Irish Constabulary

message: What became of RIC members after the creation of the Gardai? Did many join the new force? Did any RIC members face reprisals after disbandment?
"... there were many fewer Catholics in the higher ranks. "
In English? Many fewer? I don't understand what this guy is on about!  TheWickerMan 
"Others however,  faced with threatened or actual violent reprisals, fled with their families to Britain" (Quote from article as of today.) What evidence is there of reprisals or threatened reprisals? Cill Ros 22:24, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: To the ex-RIC men, that's exactly what they were; six counties of Ireland.
:Talk:Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution of Ireland Demiurge 15:17, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What's relevant is what they were officially called, not what the RIC men thought of them as. The RUC policed Northern Ireland! -- Necrothesp 15:33, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Six Counties 

message: RIC was the first permanently-armed police force in UK.  Trekphiler 10:50, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Armed & Irish 

message: I'm just wondering here - could the RIC count as a Gendarmerie?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.117.196.97 (talk) 00:46, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Would the RIC count as a Gendarmerie? 

message: Was this term ever used while the RIC existed?  I would have thought the word "Poilíní" (or worse!) would have been used by Irish speakers at the time.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.101.80.60 (talk) 07:34, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irish Translation 

message: The balance of this article is out of kilter, with more space given to the brief War of Independence than to the three generations of the RIC's earlier history.  Diomedea Exulans (talk) 19:47, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, although I don't think anyone would say the coverage of the RIC's final dramatic years is too long. The problem is simply that the earlier history needs a lot more detail, and it's a matter of the willingness of someone to expand it. If you can take it on, so much the better. Moonraker (talk) 21:16, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There is absolutely no mention of the RIC mutiny during the 1907 Belfast Dock strike. I would suggest a separate section dealing with the mutiny. About 70% of the force supported the striking dockers and carters; they came close to going out on strike themselves.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 17:22, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Balance 

message: Not a single mention of the lack of Catholics in senior positions in  this deeply sectarian force. Why avoid the elephant in the room? Or of its massacres of innocent Irish people, most notably during the Tithe War in places like Castlepollard. 89.101.41.216 (talk) 15:37, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Anti-Catholicism in the RIC

message: The badge I suspect is incorrect. Until the 1950s the crown used in artwork was a representation of the Tudor imperial crown. An actual representation of the real St Edward's Crown only came in, AFAIK, with Queen Elizabeth II, who suggested as badges were being updated to include her that it was a bit silly to use a representation of a crown that was only an artist's estimation of what the Tudor crown may have been like, and that they should use the real crown instead. 
So badges pre-the 1950s shouldn't use St Edwards crown. All the crowns on badges and letterboxes I have seen in Ireland all use the Tudor Crown. The difference is the shape of the arch on the top. St Edward's crown uses two half-arches that curve down at the top. The Tudor crown in effect used a non-dropping arch. 213.233.148.31 (talk) 22:29, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I have updated the badge design to one that faithfully traces the original 1867 designhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159181468424838&set=pcb.10157148505602428&type=3&theater&ifg=1http://www.policehistory.com/images/crestric.jpg as appeared on RIC documents compared to MrPenguin's interpretation.  For instance, the harp is actually further down, and slightly rotated compared to the RUC version and it is NOT the Government of Ireland harp as that is too young a design and would never have been used by the pre-independent Ireland. There are significantly more shamrocks than the RUC and previous versions, and the detailing of the garter is more intricate. I also decided to go with the more familiar Tudor (King's) Crown rather than the Queen's crown (specifically the Victorian version) as per later cap badges.https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159186593844838&set=pcb.10157148505602428&type=3&theater&ifg=1 These changes should address the historical accuracy concerns cited above.Cyberbeagle (talk) 15:23, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Badge 

message: Interesting article. One of my relatives was in the RIC but left for America and became a sniper in the army there whilst the war of independence and civil war were being fought, and then came back afterwards and joined the Gardaí. Which I think was pretty sensible. It reads like only about 600 left like him and a large proportion of the ones who stayed did not remain as police in Ireland at the end. I am a bit surprised I would have expected most of the RIC to have gone on to become Gardaí. Any idea of actual numbers of those who became Gardaí? Dmcq (talk) 17:33, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  I would have though most would have joined the Gardaí