The Irish Revolution Channel's video: What were the D il Courts

https://paypal.me/IrishRevolution Please consider supporting the channel. Anything you contribute would be a great help. Help support the channel by shopping through the amazon affiliates programme: Retreat from Revolution, Dail Courts 1920-1924 by Mary Kotsonouris - https://amzn.to/2OZkGKL The People's Courts, Ireland's Dail Courts - https://amzn.to/2RjER2O Atlas of the Irish Revolution - https://amzn.to/2zGkyXn Edward Carson by ATQ Stewart - https://amzn.to/2yhQqzK Judging W.T. Cosgrave by Michael Laffan - https://amzn.to/2P1EER1 Judging Dev by Diarmuid Ferriter - https://amzn.to/2RwMiVp The Irish War of Independence by Michael Hopkinson - https://amzn.to/2ygvMji Here's a glossary of terms: Dáil Courts - Revolutionary court system which supplanted the British one Dáil Éireann - Revolutionary parliament set up by Sinn Fein MPs RIC - Royal Irish Constabulary (Irish Police) RUC - Royal Ulster Constabulary (Northern Irish police - created later) A Specials - Full time special police created for Ulster B Specials - Part time 'paramilitary' police C Specials - A sort of reserve police who weren't really used IRA - Irish Republican Army - previously the Irish Volunteers Unionist - Those loyal to the British crown, who wish to remain part of the United Kingdom Republican - Those who desired an independent Irish Republic Nationalist - also the Home Rulers, who wanted a devolved administration in Dublin. Sinn Fein - The political wing of the IRA, Republicans. Partition - the division of Ireland between the 26 county Free State to the South and the 6 county 'statelet' to the North, Northern Ireland. I'll update this list as we go along. Twitter: http://twitter.com/IrishRevYouTube Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Irish-Revolution-622343078111039 The Wind that Shakes the barley image https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6791712 For this episode in particular, special thanks to the bureau of military history. Many thanks to irishelectionliterature.com - They have some great content over there. Full credit given to Wikimedia Commons, NLI Flickr page, PRONI Flickr page, the bureau of military history...