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A Question of Duty: The Curragh Incident 1914
Paul O´brien
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Description for A Question of Duty: The Curragh Incident 1914
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 174.
In the Curragh Army Camp in County Kildare, a senior British General and his officers had threatened to resign rather than deploy their forces to Ulster in response to threats from the Protestant populations there refusing to accept Home Rule. This was the so called Curragh Mutiny, which precipitated the most serious crisis of civilmilitary relations in modern British history. In this engaging and enjoyable new history of those events, Paul O'Brien explores the why and the how of those strange days as well as putting the events in a wider context and bringing home to the modern reader just ... Read more
In the Curragh Army Camp in County Kildare, a senior British General and his officers had threatened to resign rather than deploy their forces to Ulster in response to threats from the Protestant populations there refusing to accept Home Rule. This was the so called Curragh Mutiny, which precipitated the most serious crisis of civilmilitary relations in modern British history. In this engaging and enjoyable new history of those events, Paul O'Brien explores the why and the how of those strange days as well as putting the events in a wider context and bringing home to the modern reader just ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New Island Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781848403147
SKU
9781848403147
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About Paul O´brien
Paul O' Brien is a military historian who has studied Irish and British military activity during the Easter Rising 1916. He has written a number of works on the 1916 Rising focusing on the military aspects of Easter week. This original work has brought new life to the military history of the 1916 Rising. A keen collector of model soldiers, ... Read more
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