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Irish police and military
Irish Constabulary
Museums / Libraries
RIC records
- The RIC personnel files are lost.
- A register (index) of RIC personnel survives.
- The Missing Personnel Records of the R.I.C..
Gerard O'Brien,
Irish Historical Studies,
Vol. 31, No. 124 (Nov 1999), pp. 505-512.
- This tries to find out where the RIC personnel files went.
It seems personnel files for 46,000 men were taken to England in 1922.
A total of 85,000 men served in the RIC and predecessors.
So it is unclear whose files survived at this point.
Probably older files were destroyed before 1922.
These later files survived in England until 1939, but are now lost.
- Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) register
(index of men who served, with summary of service)
-
Original is in
[NA.UK]
Home Office Records,
H.O. 184.
-
Microfilmed by [LDS]
film no. 085 6057.
Copy in
[LDS Dublin].
- Copy of this in
[NAI].
[GM] records
have been moved to the
[NAI].
- Copy in
[SOG]
microfiche IR/GEN/73963/1-8.
- The RIC service register
only includes those who were serving in 1836 and later.
This includes some police who joined as early as 1816.
But those whose service finished before 1836 are not included.
- Notebooks
of Patrick Carroll, Irish police historian,
3 boxes at
[GM].
- Box 3 has: Ms for "Notes for a History of Police in Ireland" by Patrick Carroll.
- Box 1 has: 1829 summary of constabulary in Munster.
- RIC
Return of men Rewarded, Dismissed, Disrated and Fined (1848-72),
[GM] M.169
- This may now have been moved to the
[NAI].
- There might be a different version in [TCD].
- RIC pensions
- RIC pensions (1873 on) and death list is
PMG 48
in [NA.UK].
Also here.
- RIC pensions, Ireland tracts vol.1,
[SOG]
IR/G 164
- [LDS Dublin] catalogue
has "RIC Index" and "RIC Records",
but only RIC Index seems to exist.
Genealogy sites
- Ancestry has:
- findmypast.ie
has:
- The RIC Collection
contains:
- The History of the Royal Irish Constabulary, Robert Curtis, 1871.
- The Royal Irish Constabulary Manual, 6th Edition, 1909.
- Royal Irish Constabulary List and Directory, July 1889.
- Royal Irish Constabulary List and Directory, January 1910.
- Royal Irish Constabulary List and Directory, January 1915.
- Royal Irish Constabulary List and Directory, January 1920.
- RIC List (or RIC Directory) 1840 to 1922
- [BL] - complete set - not in RR - must be ordered
- Constabulary List, 1840-1867. General Reference PP2512g.
- Royal Irish Constabulary List, 1868-1919.
- [GM]
- complete on microfilm
- incomplete on paper - 1840-1847, 1851-1855, 1867, 1869, 1880-1881, 1884, and others later
- this may now have been moved to the
[NLI]
- [NLI] - incomplete
- 1840-1845, [NLI] Ir 3522 R 8
- 1844-1847, [NLI] J 3522
- 1857, 1876-1879, 1881-1919, [NLI] Ir 3522 R 8
-
[PSNI]
- incomplete - 1840-1850, 1859-1908, and others later,
[PSNI] 1995.002
- also has a 1836 Constabulary List as Ms
Gardai
Timeline of national police
1814 Peace Preservation Force
1822 County Constabulary
Enforced collection of Protestant Tithes from Catholics in Tithe War.
1836 Irish Constabulary
Armed.
Opposed Young Irelanders.
Opposed Fenians.
1867 Royal Irish Constabulary
Assisted evictions in Land War.
Heavy casualties in War of Independence.
1922 In south, disbanded, and Gardai formed.
In north, became RUC.
Dublin police
Timeline of Dublin police
1786 Dublin police
1836 Dublin Metropolitan Police
Unarmed.
Not involved in political matters.
Only 2 killed on duty in 1882-1916 period.
Not heavily involved in War of Independence.
1925 Amalgamated into Gardai.
- Belfast Town Police
- Belfast Town Police records
- Belfast Town Police records:
- Minute books of the Belfast Police Committee, 1800-1844,
[PRO.NI]
LA/7/2/BA/1.
- Minute books of the Belfast Commissioners of Police, 1807-1844,
[PRO.NI]
LA/7/2/BA/2.
- Minute books of the
Police Committee, 1844-1865,
[PRO.NI]
LA/7/10/AB/1 (1-5).
- Police Fund journal, 1833 on,
[PRO.NI]
LA/7/4/CD/1.
- Police Fund ledger, 1844 on,
[PRO.NI]
LA/7/4/DA/2.
