Talk:Billy Hughes egg-throwing incident

Motivation
Was the culprit ever identified or interviewed to confirm their motivation? Without that can we be confident enough to call this a protest and therefore add the appropriate category? - Shiftchange (talk) 05:29, 16 October 2015 (UTC)


 * The culprit was Patrick Brosnan (with the possibility his brother Bartie Brosnan was also involved). There was loads of newspaper articles about the event, some highly exaggerated suggesting a major riot (such as Hughes' telegram), but this subsequent report of an inquiry into the incident seems to narrow it down to one or two eggs thrown by Patrick Brosnan (or possibly his brother Bartie Brosnan) who were interjecting during the pro-conscription speech by Hughes. It seems it was a planned protest against conscription (Brosnan came with eggs in his pockets to a publicised pro-conscription speech by Hughes). As this inquiry report indicates, egg throwing seems to have been a popular form of protest at the time including at other pro-conscription speeches. In 2007 relatives claimed their actions were a response to conscription introduced in Ireland in 1916 and that they were Sinn Fein sympathisers. But if you believe Conscription Crisis of 1918, there was no attempt to conscript the Irish until 1918 making it an unlikely motivation in Warwick in 1917. But nonetheless if they were Sinn Fein sympathisers, they would be unlikely to want to see Australia providing more troops in support of the British Army as it presumably suited Sinn Fein to have the British Army busy in Europe and thus be less able to retain control in Ireland. Kerry (talk) 00:01, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * In 1952 when Hughes died, Brosnan claimed he was opposed to conscription because "I didn't want to be conscripted". Kerry (talk) 00:08, 18 October 2015 (UTC)|

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Bad title
Title should be 'Egg-throwing incident (1917)'. Why the unnecessary caps? I doubt it was referred to with caps in 1917 unless in a newspaper headline. Donama (talk) 11:39, January 22, 2020 (UTC+10.5)
 * Moved from Egg Throwing Incident (1917) to egg-throwing incident (1917). Donama (talk) 02:03, 28 January 2020 (UTC)