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Mar 12, 2009 · On 2 December 1958, there was a mass escape attempt when 26 prisoners rushed the fence with wire-cutters in broad daylight. Shots were fired and ammonia grenades hurled by the guards but 16 men got outside the perimeter. Two were recaptured and the remaining 14 made good their escape.
The Curragh incident of 20 March 1914, sometimes known as the Curragh mutiny, occurred in the Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland. The Curragh Camp was then the main base for the British Army in Ireland, which at the time still formed part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
This article explores the connection between the army, the press and the Unionist party during the so-called ‘Curragh incident’ of March 1914 in which certain army officers expressed their unwillingness to impose Home Rule on Ireland.
A crisis was provoked when a number of British Army officers resolved to he dismissed rather than obey the Government's orders. The Curragh Incident, which occurred on March 20th, 1914, is unique in modern British history.
The 1914 refusal by British troops to fire on Irish loyalists, known as the Curragh Mutiny, was the culmination of years of. conflict and mistrust among the British military, the War Office in. London and the British-supported bureaucracy at Dublin Castle. Elizabeth Muenger, in her detailed and well-researched book, The.
Mar 22, 2014 · The Curragh Mutiny of March 1914 had a disastrous effect on discipline within the British Army and inflicted irretrievable damage on the careers of many of the key players within it, a...
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But for a few days in March 1914 a crisis erupted, centred on the Curragh Camp, which sent shock waves through the British establishment. The crisis was inflamed by the expressed potential of members of the British officer to refuse to obey if they received orders to march on Ulster so as to force the Unionists into accepting a Home Rule ...
