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    The Curragh Camp (Irish: Campa an Churraigh) is an army base and military college in The Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland. It is the main training centre...
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    The Curragh (/ˈkʌrə/ KURR-ə; Irish: An Currach [ənˠ ˈkʊɾˠəx]) is a flat open plain in County Kildare, Ireland. This area is well known for horse breeding...
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    Internment (redirect from Internment Camp)
    Africa (1900–1902) Curragh Camp in Ireland (1939–46, 1957–59). Curragh Camp was by far the largest, at least 30 other prisons and camps were used throughout...
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    Ireland as the "Emergency", "K-Lines" was the part of the Curragh Camp used as an internment camp. It was used to house German soldiers, mainly navy personnel...
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  • after the end of conflict in Northern Ireland. The unit is based in the Curragh Camp, County Kildare. The 2015 White Paper on Defence announced that the strength...
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    served seven months in Mountjoy Prison and was then interned at the Curragh Camp. He took the Official Sinn Féin side in the 1970 split. In 1977, he contested...
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    party in England and again when the Prince was spending 10 weeks at Curragh Camp in Ireland with the Grenadier Guards in the late summer of 1861. The...
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    Victoria that day. In the summer of 1861, as commanding officer at the Curragh, he was tasked with overseeing the Prince of Wales' military induction...
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    Officer Commanding 7th Division. He died in command of his division at Curragh Camp in 1906. "No. 22697". The London Gazette. 9 January 1863. p. 120. Christ...
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    base at Bidganeh near Malard, Tehran Portlaoise Prison Limerick Prison Curragh Camp Phoenix Park Mountjoy Prison Negev Nuclear Research Center Sdot Micha...
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    Republican movement; the "Curragh" faction consisting of older IRA men who had served prison sentences together in the Curragh who favoured traditionalism...
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    the First World War, before being forced to resign as a result of the Curragh Incident. He led one of the last great cavalry charges in history at the...
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  • IRA Volunteers out of the Curragh in order to help the IRA on the outside. When McCool arrived in the Curragh internment camp in April 1942 the faction...
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  • Campaign Proinsias De Rossa Sinn Féin, Workers' Party, Democratic Left, Labour Party Feb 1982 2002 1956–59 Mountjoy, Curragh Camp IRA membership and actions...
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    against, and with only 1,269 troops in the city when he arrived from the Curragh Camp in the early hours of Tuesday 25 April. City Hall was taken from the...
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    March 2010. "Kildare at the heart of the Irish bloodstock industry". The Curragh Racecourse. Archived from the original on 20 June 2017. Retrieved 29 March...
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    Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (category Second Boer War concentration camps)
    morning of 20 March – the morning of Paget's speech which provoked the Curragh incident, in which Hubert Gough and other officers threatened to resign...
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    in Ballymun which has since been demolished. Plunkett barracks in the Curragh Camp, County Kildare is also named after him. The Irish ballad "Grace", written...
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    Otto Skorzeny (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    10743; -6.8218 (Martinstown House)), a 165-acre (67 ha) farm near The Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland. Although Skorzeny could not be refused entry...
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    stationed at the Curragh Camp near Dublin threatened to resign their commissions or accept dismissal rather than obey (the Curragh Incident). Along with...
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    of Military Intelligence (G2). Active republicans were interned at the Curragh or given prison sentences: six men were hanged under newly legislated acts...
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  • Preston (1848) Tower of London (1851) Sheerness (1854) Sheffield (1854) Curragh Camp (1855) Devonport (1856) Chelsea (1861) The Cardwell Reforms (1872) ushered...
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    Army". History Ireland (6). Ryan, Alfred Patrick (1956). Mutiny at the Curragh. Macmillan. p. 189. ISBN 978-7-230-01130-3. Cardozo, Nancy (1979). Maud...
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    called Curragh (meaning 'marshy plain' in Irish). When the 2nd Baronet changed his surname by royal licence to de Vere in 1833 to reflect his de Veres...
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    Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Victoria and Albert visited the Curragh Camp, Ireland, where the Prince of Wales was attending army manoeuvres. At the Curragh, the Prince of Wales was introduced...
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  • arms dump found", Sunday Independent, 21 January 1990. "Arms Find At The Curragh". RTÉ Archives. Belfast Telegraph, 27 September 2005. "Divers boost arms...
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    Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (category British recipients of the Croix de guerre (Belgium))
    for his role in agitating for the introduction of conscription and the Curragh incident of 1914. As Sub Chief of Staff to the British Expeditionary Force...
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    afterwards. One is preserved in the Curragh Camp in running condition, and two more are on static display, also in the Curragh, and one in Athlone barracks....
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    had been cut off. The IRA leadership were mostly interned within the Curragh Camp, where they were treated increasingly harshly, or on the run. Most internees...
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    Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (category Second Boer War concentration camps)
    himself as a stopgap following the resignation of Colonel Seely over the Curragh Incident earlier in 1914. Kitchener was in Britain on his annual summer...
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