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  Genealogical Investigation into Charles J. Aris
An incident involving the 16th Lancers [and presumably Charles Aris] occurred in Ireland in 1914 which came to be known as the Curragh "Mutiny".
The Curragh was the primary cavalry depôt of the British Army in Ireland, outside of Dublin.
This inappropriate ultimatum was the cause of the Curragh Mutiny.
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  Curragh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Curragh (Irish An Currach) is a very flat plain in County Kildare Ireland, lying between the towns of Newbridge and Kildare.
The Curragh is composed of a sandy soil formed after an esker desposited a sand load and as a result it has excellent drainage characteristics.
The hill north of the Curragh is called the Hill of Allen (Almhain) where the Fianna assembled until the latter end of the third century.
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 AllRefer.com - Curragh, the (British And Irish Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
Curragh, the[kUr´ukh] Pronunciation Key, undulating plain or common, 4,885 acres (1,977 hectares), Co. Kildare, E Republic of Ireland.
The Curragh racecourse is Ireland's most famous horse-racing center.
The region gave its name to the Curragh Incident or "Mutiny," in which many British army officers resigned (Mar., 1914) in an attempt to avoid possible operations in Ulster to enforce Home Rule.
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 Curragh incident - Wiki Ireland
The Curragh incident July 20 1914 is also known as the Curragh Mutiny.
The Curragh was then the main base for the British army in Ireland.
This followed the British government's decision to send 800 soldiers to Ulster to enforce the Act and to resupply depots in the province, which was thought necessary since the illegal importation of thousands of rifles from Imperial Germany by the Ulster Volunteer Force.
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 Curragh Incident | State Of California Incident Command System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
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 The Curragh Mutiny 1914
he events which culminated in the Curragh “Mutiny” of March 1914 had their beginnings at the end of the 18th century when by the Act of Union the islands of Great Britain and Ireland were joined admnistratively.
On his return to the Curragh, Fergusson learned of the decision of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade to the effect that only the officers of the 4th Hussars and Royal Horse Artillery had relented.
In the view of the Cabinet, it was wrong to demand from the officers any assurance as to what their conduct might be in a contingency which might never arise, and it is at least equally wrong for an officer to demand any such assurance from the Government.
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 Curragh Incident
The Curragh Incident of July 20, 1914, also 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.
To deal with the potential threat of violence from the Ulster Volunteers should the Home Rule Bill be passed in the British Parliament, the commander of the Curragh base, Sir Arthur Paget, was ordered by the War Office in London in March 1914 to start preparations to march to Ulster should violence break out there.
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 The History of the Curragh
The Curragh was the place chosen by Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyreconnell to prepare his Army for the cause of James II.
Queen Victoria visited the Curragh in 1861 to visit her son the Prince of Wales (Edward VII), who was serving in the Curragh and to inspect troops.
The handover of the Curragh Camp to the Army of the Free State took place at 10 o’clock on Tuesday, May 16 1922 when the camp was handed over to a party of Irish troops commanded by Lt Gen O’Connell.
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 The Handover of The Curragh Camp
Todd Burns, Curragh Camp, to meet immediate needs.” During the succeed­ing weeks, prior to the takeover of the Curragh, the small garrison from Ballyfair called to the Camp on a few occasions to visit the Catholic Home and Sandes Home.
Tuesday, the 16th of May, 1922, was fixed as the date for handover of the Curragh Camp and by that date the occupying British Forces had dwindled to about 2,000 men.
The handover of the Curragh Camp completed, the happenings of the day were now but unrecorded history.
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 Dineen Walker | Just Me
The Curragh Incident of July 20, 1914 is also known as the Curragh Mutiny and occurred in the Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland.
The Curragh was then the main base for the British army in Ireland.
This followed the British government's decision to send 800 soldiers to Ulster to enforce the Act and to resupply depots in the province, which was thought necessary since the illegal importation of thousands of rifles from Imperial Germany by the Ulster Volunteer Force.
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 Field-Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson
Bu shortly afterwards, it became clear that other senior politicians were planning to 'scatter troops all over Ulster, as though it were a Pontypool coal strike'.
Eventually the Government made sufficient promises that the army would not be used to quell a civil disturbance on British soil, and the crisis slowly abated.
Wilson, Gough and many others became 'marked men' as a result of this incident, which had an important effect on relationships with the Government and the military hierarchy throughout the succeeding years.
www.1914-1918.net /wilson_bio.htm   (1746 words)

  
 Tanks On The Curragh
A small tank cadre was formed at the Curragh to look after the Vickers and to demonstrate its potential to other army units.
One incident (memorable for the wrong reasons), took place in 1961 when the faithful ‘Diamond T’ with a Comet loaded on its modified trailer left the road in the Gormanstown area between Kilcullen and Dunlavin and overturned, necessitating a week-long recovery operation by Base Workshop personnel.
Of the older vehicles, the 6-pounder gun of the Vickers is retained at the Curragh, having been specially ‘mounted’ some years ago.
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 Curragh Incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By the spring of 1914, the Ulster Volunteers possessed three million rounds of ammunition and 25,000 rifles purchased in Germany plus 12,000-15,000 rifles already acquired.
Fergusson, Sir James The Curragh Incident, London, 1964.
Ryan, A.P. Mutiny at the Curragh, London, 1956.
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 Curragh Mutiny - Great War Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The Regiment was stationed at The Curragh and formed part of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, consisting of 16th Lancers and 4th Hussars at The Curragh, 5th Lancers in Dublin, and ‘D’ and ‘E’ Batteries R.H.A. at Newbridge, close to The Curragh.
Two regiments of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade were stationed in the Curragh, the 4th Hussars, a large portion of which was Southern Irish, in Stewart Barracks, and the 16th Lancers in Ponsonby Barracks.
Then he told them that the Secretary of State for War had made it clear that officers ordered to act in support of the civil power could resign their commissions if they did not choose to obey orders; if they refused they would be dismissed from the army.
1914-1918.invisionzone.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=62748&view=getlastpost   (997 words)

  
 Army Records Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Although sometimes erroneously referred to as a 'Mutiny', the Curragh Incident does remain one of the very few occasions in modern times when the army asserted itself in face of the civil power in peacetime.
Two previous books in particular have investigated the Curragh Incident, which has also been discussed in the context of Irish Home Rule and of the leading participants, but none of these accounts has benefited from all surviving primary sources - this is the first time access has been granted to certain key archives.
By emphasising the wider impact of the Incident on the army, this selection of original documents illuminates a number of aspects that have gone unremarked.
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 Bullying
Since failure to report bullying can lead to a continuation of it, the school and parents must encourage students to report and discuss incidents of bullying.
Any student may be requested to write an account of his or her knowledge of an incident.
A record will be kept of all bullying incidents.
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 Sir Charles Seely - LoveToKnow 1911
In 1911 he was made Under-Secretary for War, and in 1912 became War Minister.
Owing, however, to the events attending the Curragh incident of 1914, he resigned in the summer.
He served in the army with distinction in the World War, rising to the rank of genera] in 1918, and on his return to official life became parliamentary under-secretary to the Ministry of Munitions and deputy-Minister of Munitions (1918).
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 Curragh Mutiny - Great War Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The Curragh Mutiny seems to be one of those events that everyone has heard of and can tell you that it centred on the 3rd Cavalry Brigade commanded by Gough.
Have a few books on this incident, will check tomorrow to see if I can come up with some names, have to go to a meeting soon so cant do it at the moment, unless of course others get in first.
We were told that they had had the paper earlier than we and many officers were on their way to Kildare Station in the evening to catch the boat train when a staff officer caught them up at a gallop and ordered them back to barracks.
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Ewart was also involved in the founding of the British Secret Service, the formation of the Piobaireachd Society, which was destined to train all Army Pipe Majors for 50 years, and the compilation and writing of the Historical Records of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, volumes which set new standards for regimental histories.
Ewart’s career and influence was abruptly curtailed in March 1914 when he resigned as Adjutant General as a result of “the Curragh Incident” when British officers stationed at the Curragh camp near Dublin made it clear that they would choose not to march against Ulstermen in the north.
Thereafter Spencer Ewart was appointed as General Officer Commanding in Chief, Scottish Command and, in spite his brilliant brain and his battle, staff and planning experience, he spent a heartbreaking war at home.
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 Ireland's OWN: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
In 1959 the Curragh internment camp had closed and the last IRA internees in Crumlin Road jail in the North were released in early 1961.
In 1949 the IRA took on a political dimension through the Sinn Féin party in an attempt to avoid in the future the mistakes they made with the 1939 campaign, i.e.
Other significant incidents that sealed the IRA’s fate included the so-called ‘Curragh incident’ (IRA internees breaching discipline by escaping from the Curragh without leadership approval), which effectively caused a split in the organization.
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 Sir Henry Wilson
During this period he cultivated the friendship of his counterpart at the French war college, General (afterward Marshal) Ferdinand Foch; an association that may account for Wilson's readiness to involve Great Britain in French strategy.
He played a dubious part in the Curragh incident (March 1914), surreptitiously encouraging some British army officers who refused to lead troops against Ulster opponents of Irish Home Rule.
On the outbreak of World War I, the British government chose Wilson's policy of fighting in France alongside French armies in preference to attacking the German invaders in Belgium, the strategy of the commander in chief, Field Marshal Earl Roberts.
www.stephen-stratford.co.uk /henry_wilson.htm   (1060 words)

  
 Generals Against the War? | spiked   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Why it should be considered heroic for an army commander to say he does not support an engagement, whilst continuing to command the poor bloody infantry who have to fight in it, is less clear.
Unlike the Curragh officers, Dannatt has not even shown sufficient courage of his convictions to resign.
In short, there is no modern equivalent of what the Empire meant to those officers at the Curragh.
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 Curragh incident - Encyclopedia.com
Curragh incident A mutiny at the British military centre on the Curragh plain near Dublin.
In 1914 the British commander there, General Sir Arthur Paget, on the instructions of Colonel Seely, the Secretary of State for War, informed his officers that military action might be necessary against private armies in Ulster.
More information is at your fingertips at HighBeam Research:
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
However, a U.S. soldier who disobeys an order after deeming it unlawful will almost certainly be court-martialed to determine whether the disobedience was proper.
There have been many incidents of resistance on the part of soldiers serving in Iraq.
In October 2004 members of the US Army's 343rd Quartermaster Company refused orders in Iraq.
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 Edward Carson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
To enforce the legislation, given the activities of the Unionists, Herbert Asquith's Liberal government prepared to send troops to Ulster.
This sparked the Curragh incident on July 20.
Ulster was on the brink of civil war when the outbreak of the First World War led to the suspension of Home Rule.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The incident highlighted the importance of proper handling procedures and the continued racial segregation within the Navy.
This is the story of that incident which occurred on March 14, 1970.
This incident fueled a mutiny and a fever of revolution.
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