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Inaugural Defence Forces Veterans Day RDF Newslr Spring No 27 D5_Layout 1 06/11/2014 16:27 Page 1 Cumann na nlar - Oifigeach Coimisiúnta newsletter Association of Retired Commissioned Officers Issue No: 27 (Autumn/Winter 2014) ARCO Web Site: www.iarco.info Inaugural Defence Forces Veterans Day The inaugural commemorative ceremony to honour the service of retired members of the Defence Forces was held in the DFTC on Tuesday, 02 September 2014. The event, which was hosted by the Chief of Staff, Lt Gen Conor O’Boyle and the General Officer Commanding the Defence Forces Training Centre, Brig Gen Shay O’Giollain was attended by the Minister for Defence Mr. Simon Coveney, T.D. The Minister welcomed our members along with members, of the Irish United Nations Veterans Association (IUNVA) and the Organisation of Ex ARCO President Brig Gen Liam MacNamee (Retd) alongside the Minister for Defence Mr Simon Coveney TD, Presidents of ONE Servicemen and Women (ONE) to the Curragh Camp and IUNVA, laying wreaths. to commemorate the Defence Forces commitment to veterans. Air Corp, at home and abroad”. Referring to the history of the Defence Forces on international deployments the Minister stated Speaking at the event the Minister said “There are many that “The 27th of July 1960 was a watershed moment when honours and responsibilities associated with service in the Ireland sent its first peacekeepers with the 32nd Infantry Defence Forces. Today I am happy to acknowledge the Battalion to the Congo, the first complete Irish unit sent important service that former servicemen and women have overseas as part of a UN mandate. For a further fifty four contributed to Irish society in domestic operations and in years the Irish Defence Forces contributed to the cause of hostile regions around the world. Today we are recognising peace in places like Lebanon, Chad, Liberia, East Timor and the service of all former members of the Defence Forces Syria (to name but a few) and continue to do so today”. The across all three services, the Army, the Naval Service and the Minister also made reference to the courage and tenacity the Defence Forces have shown throughout 54 years of peacekeeping. The Minister also paid tribute to the 86 members who died on operations at home and abroad in the service of their country and ”paid the ultimate price in the cause of peace during that period”. The Minister reviewed a parade involving members of the Permanent Defence Forces along with a representative body ARCO members 'On Parade' from ARCO, IUNVA and ONET. Following a short multi denominational religious service, a wreath laying ceremony to The President and Executive Committee of honour departed servicemen and women took place. Our ARCO wish all their members President, Brig Gen Liam MacNamee (Retd) laid the wreath on A Happy and Healthy Christmas and a behalf of ARCO. ARCO was well represented at the ceremony, Prosperous New Year with over 100 members attending, including the 30 members who were ‘on parade’ under the command of Col Con McNamara (Retd). RDF Newslr Spring No 27 D5_Layout 1 06/11/2014 16:27 Page 2 “Mutiny on the Curragh” - 1914 crisis as British officers predict defiance of Government over Ulster. by Liam Kenny, Naas Local History Group Mention “the Curragh Mutiny” of March 1914 and a established the Ulster Volunteer Force which grew to 100,000 barstool barrister is likely to retort that it was not a members. Two implacable opponents to Home Rule, Dublin-born “Mutiny”. And he or she would be right, it wasn’t a Edward Carson, and James Craig, were the organisational brains who led the political and para-military preparations to resist Home mutiny … there were no shots fired nor was there Rule. defiance of specific orders. But for a few days in March 1914 a crisis erupted, centred on the Curragh The Unionists had no shortage of support in political and military camp, which sent shock waves through the British circles in Britain. The Conservative party under Andrew Bonar establishment. Law threw its weight behind the Unionist opposition to Home Rule while many of the most senior British army officers, serving The crisis was inflamed by the expressed potential of members of and retired, were busy in the corridors of Westminster and the British officer class to refuse to obey if they received orders to Whitehall pushing the Unionist case, activity which included march on Ulster so as to force the Unionists into accepting a briefing sympathetic conservative media. Home Rule parliament located in Dublin. However the British Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, was under In the early 20th century the Curragh Camp was one of the political pressure to pass a Home Rule Bill. He depended on the largest military assets in the British Isles. Thousands of troops votes of Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party to sustain his Liberal across all the services trained, manoeuvred and exercised across party in Government. Two previous attempts to bring in Home the Curragh plains. The familiar redbrick buildings were hives of Rule in the 1880s and 1890s had failed to get through the activity as soldiers and their horses engaged in the routines of parliament, but Asquith saw an opportunity to settle the Irish military life. While a high tempo of military training was question for once and for all so that Britain could concentrate on maintained at the Curragh, it was a relatively peaceful place. The other threats to its empire including the war drums emanating Camp was regarded as part and parcel of local society and from Germany. economy. The officers in particular were prominent in society circles in the county, many of them being assiduous members of The Home Rule Bill went through the various stages of parliament the Kildare Hunt and its related social activities. in the winter of 1913/14. From the autumn of 1913 there were vibes of dissent among British officers who might be called to However a frisson of excitement was to permeate the camp in enforce home rule on the Ulster Unionists. They were summed March 1914 when tensions arising from the imminence of Home up in a memorandum of September 1913 written by Brigadier- Rule led to rumour and counter-rumour about a mutiny-like General John “Johnnie” Gough who, on the instructions of a response by officers stationed there. worried King George V, had been invited to Buckingham Palace to speak to the King’s secretary on the attitude of the army if it The Curragh incident has to be seen in the context of the Home came to marching on Ulster. Rule campaign which divided opinion between the north and south of the island of Ireland. In the south the Home Rule The fact that worries of a revolt among the officer class had movement under the leadership of John Redmond had skilfully reached the King who was commander-in-chief of the forces negotiated the Westminster parliamentary process to prompt the indicates how much apprehension there was in London as the British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith to bring in a Home Rule Home Rule bill seemed to be in sight of becoming law. Gough bill which would give a measure of independence to Ireland. estimated that as many as 60 percent of British officers would In the north almost half a million Unionist people had the previous refuse to back up Home Rule by force on the Ulster Unionists. His year signed a covenant and declaration vowing their outright reasons why – and these were the reasons put forward by the opposition to any element of Home Rule and made it known that half million unionists in the North in opposition to Home Rule -- they were prepared to resort to any measures to block the were threefold. devolution of government functions to Dublin. Firstly the Irish (as in the southern Irish) were not loyal citizens of The Unionists were highly organised. For some months they had the United Kingdom and had taken every opportunity to sneer at been organising and drilling and in the summer of 1913 had the King and the army. He recalled how Irish MPs had cheered in Westminster in 1899 when news of British army defeats in the 2 RDF Newslr Spring No 27 D5_Layout 1 06/11/2014 16:27 Page 3 Boer War had come through. The thought of such disloyal men becoming leaders of an Irish government was repulsive. Secondly, Gough told the King’s secretary that he wanted a “clean” government for Ireland and that a government run by southern Irish would promote “corruption and graft” and probably the country would be “inundated with unscrupulous Irish-American low class politicians”. And thirdly he said that he could not tolerate having a priest- ridden government. He said that “knowing the Irish priesthood as I do I had little doubt that religious beliefs would enter into politics and administration.” However, having given this formidable statement of objections he said that, as was the British way, the army would obey orders as it always had if the Unionists began violent action and if the army was required only to back up the constabulary in maintaining law reinforcement would take place. There was no question of a and order. But expecting the army to enforce Home Rule by firing major movement to suppress Unionist resistance. on Unionists resisting in an orderly manner would be an order that would test to breaking point the army’s duty to obey orders. The War Office summoned the hapless Sir Arthur Paget, The Asquith Government was not deflected by such pre-emptive Commander of the British army in Ireland, to London on 19 threats and continued to push the Home Rule Bill through March 1914 to discuss the security situation on the eve of the parliament.
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