21 March 2014: Conference on the Curragh Mutiny

On Friday 21 March 2014 a major international conference, organized by Trinity College Dublin, was held in Ceannt Officers Mess at the Curragh Camp, Kildare, to mark the centenary of the ‘Curragh Mutiny’. The conference brought together leading Irish and British scholars and legal authorities, including Prof. Tom Bartlett (University of Aberdeen), Prof. Ian Beckett (University of Kent), Dr Tim Bowman (University of Kent), Prof. Ronan Fanning (University College Dublin), Prof. Keith Jeffery (Queens University Belfast), Prof. Eunan O’Halpin (Trinity College Dublin) and Mark Seaman (UK Cabinet Office), Paul O’Higgins SC and Sir Richard Aikins QC.

From Trinity College Dublin: Watch the individual presentations from the conference.

For the conference programme, click here.

From History Ireland: The history of the Curragh Camp.

From Century Ireland: Mutiny in the Curragh! and Prime Minister Asquith pledges to dismiss any soldier who disobeys orders.