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Museum of Free Derry

Irish Republican History Museum

National Library of Ireland (NLI)

Garda Museum

Further Reading

Policing Websites

PSNI

RUC George Cross Foundation

Northern Ireland Policing Board

Organised Crime Task force

Police Ombudsman

Research Guides on RIC Archives

Policing History

CAIN: Policing

Royal Irish Constabulary forum

Garda Síochána Historical Society

Royal Irish Constabulary

BBC History: Security Forces in the Troubles

British Police Museum online

Garda Museum on Flickr

Flickr: Uniforms & insignia of the Royal Irish Constabulary

Photographs of RUC barracks by Bobby Hanvey

BBC World Service: The secret policeman

Old Police Cells Museum

RIC & DMP Commemoration Committee

Open University: teaching and learning From the police archives

Green & Blue: Across the Thin Line project

National Museum of Ireland: Preserving the Peace

General History

Decade of Centenaries

NMNI: Decade of Centenaries objects

Creative Centenaries

History Ireland

dippam: documenting, Ireland, parliament, people and migration

QUB - Irish History Live

Google Cultural Institute: Witness to War

National Archives of Ireland: Treaty Exhibition

NLI on Flickr: War of Independence

NLI on Flickr: Irish Civil War

Bureau of Military History

Stormont Papers: Fifty years of Northern Ireland parliamentary debate

Imperial War Museum: Collections

PRONI - Second World War in Northern Ireland

CAIN: Conflict and Polictics in Northern Ireland

BBC History: The Troubles

BBC GCSE Bitesize: The Civil Rights Movement

BBC Class Clips: Northern Ireland 1965 -1985

RTÉ Archives: Civil Rights in Northern Ireland

RTÉ Archives: Violence in Northern Ireland

Healing Through Remembering database

Incore: Accounts of the Conflict

Related Legislation

Northern Ireland (St Andrew’s Agreement) Act 2006

Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2003

Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000

The Northern Ireland Act 1998

Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998

Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998. Great Britain. Parliament.

Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998

The Public Order (Northern Ireland) Order 1987

Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1976. Great Britain. Parliament.

Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1974. Great Britain. Parliament.

Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972. Great Britain. Parliament.

Criminal Justice (Temporary Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1970. Northern Ireland. Parliament. (1970) 

The Police Act (Northern Ireland) 1970, Northern Ireland. Parliament.

Flags and Emblems (Display) Act (Northern Ireland) 1954. Northern Ireland. Parliament.

Constabulary (Ireland) Act 1936

Emergency Powers Act (Northern Ireland) 1926. Northern Ireland. Parliament.

Garda Síochána Act 1924

Constabulary (Ireland) Act 1922

Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1922. Northern Ireland. Parliament.

Constabulary (Ireland) Amendment Act 1865

Illicit Distillation (Ireland) Act 1831

Reports Into Policing

The de Silva report - Executive Summary and Principal Conclusions – The Report of the Pat Finucane Review. (12 December 2012)

The Smithwick Tribunal of Inquiry report (2004)

The Cory Collusion Inquiry report on Patrick Finucane (2004)

The Stevens inquiry 3 - Stevens Inquiry: Overview and Recommendations (17 April 2003)

The Patten report - A New Beginning: Policing in Northern Ireland (1999)

Principles for Policing in Northern Ireland: A Discussion Paper. Great Britain. Parliament. (1998)

The Colville report - Review of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Acts 1978 and 1987. Great Britain. Parliament. (1990)

The Bennett report - Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Police Interrogation Procedures in Northern Ireland. Great Britain. Parliament. (1979)

The Gardiner report - Report of a committee to consider, ... measures to deal with terrorism in Northern Ireland. Great Britain. Parliament. (1975)

The Scarman report - Violence and Civil Disturbances in Northern Ireland in 1969. Northern Ireland. Parliament. (1972)

The Diplock report - Report of the Commission to consider legal procedures to deal with terrorist activities in Northern Ireland, Great Britain. Parliament. (1972) 

The Hunt report -  Report of The Advisory Committee on Police in Northern Ireland. Great Britain. Parliament. (1969)

dippam: Bill to amend the Law relating to the Pay and Pensions of the Royal Irish Constabulary (1908)

dippam: Royal Irish Constabulary (Terms of Employment) (1893)

dippam: Commission of Inquiry, 1886, respecting Origin and Circumstances of Riots in Belfast June July August and September 1886

dippam: Bill to amend Laws relating to Pay of Royal Irish Constabulary (1873)

dippam: Report of the Commissioners of inquiry into disturbances in Londonderry (1869)

dippam: Commissioners of Inquiry report into the magisterial and police jurisdiction of the Borough of Belfast (1864)

dippam: Commissioners of Inquiry report on the magisterial and police jurisdiction of the Borough of Belfast - witness statements (1864)

dippam: Constabulary, Ireland, Report of Commissioners (1866)

dippam: Report … on the Consequences of Extending Functions of the Constabulary in Ireland to the Suppression or Prevention of Illicit Distillation

Accounts and Interviews

Home Rule - Partition 1886-1922

Irish civilian schoolchild during Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War in Sligo, Ireland, 1916-1920

British officer served with 1st Bn Devonshire Regt in Ireland, 1921-1922 (Reel 1: 10.02 – 31.30, Reel 2: 1-1.20)

British boy bugler served with 1st Bn South Wales Borderers in Ireland, 1919-1922 (Reel 1: 3.10 – 26.50)

British officer served with 2nd Bn Royal Scots in Ireland, 1920-1921 (Reel 1: 2.50 – 9.40)

Bureau of Military History – Witness Statements from those involved in War of Independence and Irish Civil War

Bureau of Military History voice recordings of those involved in Easter Rising, War of Independence and Irish Civil War

After Partition 1922-68

British NCO childhood memories of Belfast Blitz (Reel 1: 1.45 – 9.40)

Constable Jim Auld RUC served in reserve force (transcript)

Accounts of the World War two

The Troubles 1968-98

Hotel manager with Cliffe and Europa Hotels in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1974-1980 (Reel 3, Reel 4)

British officer commanded 45 Commando in Northern Ireland, 1970 (Reel 2)

British private served as No 2 to bomb disposal operator in Northern Ireland, 1973 (Reel 1: 19.00 – 27.00, Reel 2: 0.10 – 30.50, Reel 3: 0.00 – 9.40)

British officer served as Senior Ammunition Technical Officer and commanded Explosive Ordnance and Disposal Team, Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Northern Ireland, 1969-1972 (Reel 1, 2, 3)

British civilian news reporter in Northern Ireland, 1970-1989 (Reels 1-4)

Green & Blue Interview re: Safety precautions of RUC man’s daughter (transcript)

Green & Blue Interview with Raymund Kitson, a former RUC officer posted to Newry in 1970s

Green & Blue Interview with Liam Kitson, a former garda posted to border crossing at Pettigo in 1960s

Green & Blue Interview with John McNulty, a former garda posted to the border 1980s

Green & Blue Interview with Milne Rowntree RUC officer from late 1970s - 2000s (transcript)

Injured in the Troubles - Interview with former RUC officer Sam Malcolmson injured in an ambush in South Armagh 1972

Injured in the Troubles - Hazel McCready part-time RUC officer shot whilst driving to work

Injured in the troubles - former RUC officer Michael Paterson injured when a rocket launched grenade hit his Land Rover in 1981

British Library: Observing the 1980s – interview with former Republican prisoner and hunger striker Lawrence McKeown

Post-Agreement 1998 - present

British Library Listening Project: Conversation between grandmother and grandson, Lorna and Rory about the Troubles.

British Library Listening Project: Conversation between cousins, Don and Mary, about their memories of the Omagh bombing.