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"Defence Tactics for Demonstrators"

An article from The United Irishman in 1969 outlines tactics for dealing with police at Irish demonstrations.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/view/289/?page=6

View Document: The United Irishman, Vol. 23, No. 3 - Sinn Féin [Pre 1970]

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A cartoon of five figures wearing overcoats and hats each holding a placard. It is captioned, "Front rank shoulder to shoulder. Padded headgear, topcoats."
Scanned image of text, reading: Isolated policemen to be well taken care of and are NOT to be molested apart from having their braces removed. A trousers ready to fall down is the best safe-guard against further rioting by a policeman.
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