Trouble In Ireland (1910 1929)
Trouble in Ireland 1920 (Southern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Eire). Soldiers; possibly Royal Irish Constabulary the Black and Tans are preparing to defend garrison or other place. Opens w, shot of vehicles approaching through stone arch. Horsedrawn wagons; Army trucks; automobile. CU soldier speaking; standing by open car; above level of crowd of civilians around him. Soldiers march through arch gate. Soldiers marching through courtyard. MS 3 soldiers; 2 hold ends of a long 2 x 4 board and turn it as the 3rd holds barbed wire which is being wrapped round the board. The soldiers hold up the board; more soldiers are standing around them. They walk away from camera. Soldiers arranging more barbed wire. Various shots of soldiers constructing barricades of barbed wire and sandbags. Soldier w, rifle standing behind sandbags; other buildings in BG. Then; several soldiers are pulling twisting barbed wire into a thick mess; along edge of a wall some sort of fortress; in BG glimpses of people
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