The antagonistic rhetoric in the public domain pertaining to the ‘state of affairs in Ireland’, was intensified through attempts made by the British Military to justify their actions in Newport. Despite the mounting evidence to the contrary, the Military set forth a wholly fabricated account of what happened. The explanation proffered was essentially surreptitious rational, principle manufactured to make the excessive violence palatable for the British public. Correspondingly, the calculatedly opaque position being adopted by both the British Government and Military was extremely significant. Not only did it fuel a growing schism in Westminster concerning the tactics being deployed in Ireland, their obtuse attitude towards the burning of Newport creamery and the destruction of a further thirty-five creameries over a nine-month period in 1920, greatly accelerated the veracious inertia of both Sir Horace Plunkett and Ӕ, among others. As a consequence, much public attention befell upon the destruction of the creameries in the Munster region. Accordingly, due in part to this horrendous crime committed by the British Military in Newport County Tipperary, sharp focus would be levied upon the terror tactics being bestowed upon large sections of the Irish …show more content…
In the early hours of the morning on the 24 July 1920, the ‘most up-to-date creamery’, belonging to the Garryspillane Co-operative Society, was set upon by the Forces of the Crown. According to testimony gathered from local residents, a ‘raiding party’ constituted by ‘Black and Tans’, was observed ‘setting the place ablaze’. The attack rendered useless ‘most of the valuable machinery’, of which much had only been installed within the past two years. Moreover, a state of the art ‘refrigeration plant’, at a cost of between £700 and £1000, ‘was left a mass of warped