Irish War of Independence
On 1 November 1919 he retired from the Army again with the rank of Brigadier-General, and received the award of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. However, he was immediately re-employed as Divisional Commander of the Royal Irish Constabulary in Belfast. Nationalist MP Joseph Devlin complained that this meant the Chief of Staff in Carson's army was responsible for protecting Roman Catholics. After riots and the murder of an RIC District Inspector in Lisburn, Hacket Pain put the town under military control in August 1920. Hacket Pain was reported to have resigned in early November 1920.
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“I hope you will not be washed away by the Irish sea.”
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And sky, between thought and day and night. It is
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Patches the moon together in his room
To his Virgilian cadences, up down,
Up down. It is a war that never ends.”
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