"Tans" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1931, John Bowyer Bell, To Play the Game: An Analysis of Sport",
          "text": "Intuitively, on Bloody Sunday, the Tans recognized where their trouble lay: the Irish were playing their own game once again.",
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          "ref": "1955, General Tom Barry, Guerilla Days in Ireland",
          "text": "Close quarter fighting did not suit them. It does not suit the Essex or the Tans.",
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          "ref": "1995, Lance Pettitt, Screening Ireland: Film and Television Representation",
          "text": "The Dawn contains two problems for its male protagonists: namely, Ireland's fight against the British forces, the RIC, and the Tans, and the patriotic commitment of the Malone family's sons.",
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