Police use a battering ram to forcibly evict a tenant, 1888 (Colorized by me)

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  1. Is this an original or a reenactment as I know many of these photos were re-created scenes later on.

  2. Wouldn’t it have been easier (and cheaper) just to bash the door(s) in instead? Damn cops always have to destroy everything, sheesh…

  3. Nice job. But are you sure the colour is right for the constable on the right hand side? It looks a little too blue for my eyes; RIC uniform was ‘Rifle Green’.

  4. “Oi Darren! We need to evict this tenet but he locked him and his family in, how do we get in?”

    “Don’t worry, BRING IN THE LOG”

  5. Why not just knock the door down? Imagine the guards just building a wooden battering ram outside your house and blowing a hole in the wall.

  6. Landlording — as it is is seen in Ireland — is a vestige of our colonial past. To have have a real conversation about Ireland as a post-colonial state, we must work towards a future where the practice of landlording is criminalized and reduced to a regrettable blip in in cultural psyche of the nation.

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