The Curragh incident July 20, 1914 is also known as the Curragh Mutiny.

57 out of the 70 British Army Officers based in the Curragh camp, many of them Irish Protestants, resigned their commissions in the British Army rather than enforce the Third Irish Home Rule Bill in Ulster. This followed the British government's decision to send 800 soldiers to Ulster to enforce the Bill, which was thought necessary since the illegal importation of thousands of German rifles by the UVF. Asquith's government backed down, claiming an "honest misunderstanding" and the men were reinstated. The event contributed to the growing Irish separatist movement, convincing nationalists that they could not expect impartiality from the British army in Ireland.

See also

Edward Carson

Unionists_(Ireland)

External links

• http://www.1914-1918.net/wilson_bio.htm