• 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...
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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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    Lieutenant-General Sir Douglas Haig at Aldershot Command. He played a role in the Curragh Incident in March 1914, in which his brother and other cavalry officers stationed...
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    cavalry still be trained to charge with sabre and lance. During the Curragh incident he had to resign as CIGS after promising Hubert Gough in writing that...
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    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 rather...
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    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 (BEF)...
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    Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, where he was partly responsible for the Curragh Incident. Paget was the son of Lord Alfred Paget; his paternal grandfather was...
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    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 Battle...
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    After Hubert Gough and other officers had threatened to resign in the Curragh incident, Robertson also supported Wilson in trying in vain to persuade French...
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    service in the Second Boer War, and a more controversial role in the Curragh incident, in which he was one of the leading officers who threatened to accept...
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  • Curragh Cup run at the course Curragh Camp, of the British Army and later the Irish Army Curragh incident 1914 "mutiny" by British officers Curragh Camp...
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    Officer Commanding of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade at the Curragh in Ireland. During the Curragh Incident of March 1914 he was one of the leading officers who...
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    Howth gun-running incidents. HM Government's ability to face down unionist defiance was thrown into question by the "Curragh incident", when dozens of...
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  • Regiment at the Curragh 1st Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment at the Curragh Units were regularly rotated thereafter. The Curragh incident occurred in March...
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    Downing Street (1910) Marconi scandal (1912) Third Home Rule Bill (1914) Curragh incident (1914) Buckingham Palace Conference (1914) July Crisis (1914) British...
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    bill awaited its third passage through the Commons, the so-called Curragh incident occurred in April 1914. With deployment of troops into Ulster imminent...
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    Downing Street (1910) Marconi scandal (1912) Third Home Rule Bill (1914) Curragh incident (1914) Buckingham Palace Conference (1914) July Crisis (1914) British...
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  • Hundred Days Offensive Background National Volunteers Ulster Volunteers Curragh incident Allied armies Easter Rising Irish Brigade Conscription Crisis of 1918...
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    rounds at Larne by blockading authorities. (See Larne gunrunning). The Curragh Incident showed it would be difficult to use the British army to enforce home...
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    Downing Street (1910) Marconi scandal (1912) Third Home Rule Bill (1914) Curragh incident (1914) Buckingham Palace Conference (1914) July Crisis (1914) British...
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    (1963) The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1965) The Story of Papworth (1935) Channel Incident (1940) Rush Hour (1941) Two Fathers (1944) Anthony Asquith biography at...
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    army indicated they would not move to suppress the Protestants (the Curragh incident). Suddenly war with Germany broke out and home rule was suspended for...
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    The Wrens of the Curragh were a community of women in nineteenth-century Ireland who lived outside society on the plains of Kildare, many of whom were...
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    resignation of their commissions by army officers in March 1914 (see Curragh Incident). Ireland seemed to be on the brink of civil war when the First World...
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    Downing Street (1910) Marconi scandal (1912) Third Home Rule Bill (1914) Curragh incident (1914) Buckingham Palace Conference (1914) July Crisis (1914) British...
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    Downing Street (1910) Marconi scandal (1912) Third Home Rule Bill (1914) Curragh incident (1914) Buckingham Palace Conference (1914) July Crisis (1914) British...
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    during the Mexican Revolution. Curragh Incident, also known as the Curragh Mutiny of 20 July 1914 occurred in the Curragh, Ireland, where British officers...
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    banned the importation of weapons into Ireland. The "Curragh incident" (also referred to as the "Curragh Mutiny") of March 1914, indicated that the British...
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    has played little role in British domestic politics (except for the Curragh incident), and, apart from Ireland, has seldom been deployed against internal...
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