Talk:Curragh incident

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I've never heard this referred to as anything other than the Curragh Mutiny. It ought to be moved, I think. john k 03:18, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I've also seen it just as "The Curragh." Is there an agreed-on definitive account? Mackensen (talk) 11:07, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * "The Curragh" is nearly always a reference to the racecourse. Nunquam Dormio 06:04, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

Move to Curragh incident to fix the capitalization. Vegaswikian (talk) 03:31, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Curragh Incident → Curragh Mutiny — Per WP:COMMONNAME. 30,000 Google hits for Curragh Mutiny, 18,000 for Curragh Incident. Have never heard this called anything but the Curragh Mutiny. Jonchapple (talk) 21:19, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose A Google book search: "Curragh Mutiny" returns About 3,640 results; "Curragh Incident" returns About 5,730 results. -- PBS (talk) 22:09, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose It did not become a mutiny, and so using that in the title would be wrong and misleading.--Britannicus (talk) 22:17, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Reliable source for the last statement, (from one of the first book returned by the Google search I made) -- PBS (talk) 22:22, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Support I believe this is the common name, calling it an "incident" downplays its seriousness. PatGallacher (talk) 22:27, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I just did a search of Google web search and could not get the numbers Jonchapple got. Then I tried it with google.co.uk and got about the same resuts Curragh incident about 18,000 and Curragh mutiny about 29,900. But that is simply for pages that have both words on it not for the title making the same search placing the terms in double quotes and removing Wikipedia pages: "Curragh incident" -wikipedia About 7,130 results "Curragh mutiny" -wikipedia about 5,040 results. So even a crude Google search, not just a search of reliable sources, returns more hits for "Curragh incident" than for "Curragh mutiny" -- PBS (talk) 22:55, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * What makes you think it is the common name in reliable sources? --PBS (talk) 22:40, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps it's a transatlantic thing? FWIW, Alfred Ryan's Mutiny at the Curragh, Joseph Lee's Ireland 1912-1985, Tim Pat Coogan's The IRA, Ranelagh's A Short History of Ireland, Peter Cottrell's The Irish Civil War 1922-23 all use "Mutiny", as does The Guardian newspaper. Jonchapple (talk) 23:01, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't think so the source I gave above was published by the "Army Records Society (Great Britain)" a crude search on the web for UK addresses give "Curragh incident" -wikipedia site:uk gives "About 586 results" "Curragh mutiny" -wikipedia site:uk gives "About 410 results" (unfortunately it is not easy to do the same thing with a Book search) but the ratios between a global web search and a UK domain only are about the same (1.4). -- PBS (talk) 04:26, 24 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose per Britannicus. I have almost always heard it called the Curragh incident. Partly I suspect the rather mealy-mouthed description as an 'incident' comes from a desire at the time to play down the significance of what happened, but in my judgment 'incident' is the common name. Sam Blacketer (talk) 15:43, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: Surely it should be either Curragh incident or Curragh mutiny, per WP:CAPS. Jafeluv (talk) 09:46, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose "Curragh incident" is the commonest name among reliable sources such as books and scholarly articles as shown by simple gbook, gscholar or library catalog searches. DrKiernan (talk) 20:23, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * You would support a move to Curragh incident, then? Jafeluv (talk) 00:27, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Shouldn't this rather bizarre article name be looked at again? Much reference to this at the moment in the light of all the anniversaries and Wiki seems to be about the only place to call it "Incident". Sarah777 (talk) 17:21, 6 August 2014 (UTC)


 * As per discussion above, "Incident" is correct and is used in better books, at least in the UK, not least as it was not, strictly speaking, a mutiny (even if there was an element of "moving swiftly on and pretending that nothing had happened" on the government's part). The article mentions the inaccurate name by which it is sometimes known, but that doesn't mean that the article should be so named.Paulturtle (talk) 23:19, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

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Crewe, who?
In the Paget's orders section, there is reference to someone named Crewe in the sentence, “Asquith set up a five-man Cabinet Committee, chaired by Crewe (who soon fell ill) …”. Crewe, who? Is it Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, the then former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland? This needs clarification. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  18:30, 13 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Yes, him. He was effectively a sort of deputy to Asquith, chairing meetings in his absence, perhaps because Asquith didn't see him as any kind of threat.Paulturtle (talk) 02:45, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Ulster Volunteers = UVF?
Throughout this article the Ulster Volunteers are referred to as the UVF. THE UVF were a para-military group formed in the 1960's 50 years after the events described here. The 2 terms are not interchangeable. 90.248.222.190 (talk) 23:08, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
 * There are two UVFs, the original UVF formed in 1913 and mentioned in the very first paragraph of the Ulster Volunteers article, and the 1966 version at Ulster Volunteer Force At the very top of that article is a note saying "For the original Ulster Volunteer Force, see Ulster Volunteers". DuncanHill (talk) 00:19, 9 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Seems to me we need to take real care not to mislead the reader. "Two UVFs": is this a situation where we ought anyway to have a disambiguation page?  -'' SquisherDa (talk) 08:57, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Comprehension
It is unlikely that anyone reading the article will gather what actually happened, or why the article bangs on at such inordinate length and in such confusing detail about something that, in fact, didn't really happen at all. (There was no mutiny, for a start, and the whole thing was insignificant.) Having read the article several times I was none the wiser about this mysterious thing that Irish nationalists seem to regard as a big deal but no one else does. However, Jane Ridley, in George V: Never a Dull Moment (London, Chatto & Windus 2022, Penguin Vintage 2023, ISBN 978-0-09-959012-5, p.211) has this:-

'The same morning [19 March] Asquith attended a conference of ministers to brief General Sir Arthur Paget, the officer commanding the army in Ireland. The 63-year-old Paget was a hot-tempered old warhorse "who should have been put out to grass years ago"; both he and his American wife Minnie Stevens had been members of the court of Edward VII. Paget returned to Ireland that night in a highly excitable state, and the next morning gave orders to the officers stationed at the Curragh army base, many of them sympathetic to the Unionist cause, that they must either agree to take part in "active operations" in Ulster or be dismissed from the service. Fifty-eight cavalry officers resigned.

'"Had a most harassing day," wrote George [V] on 21 March, the day the news broke of an apparent mutiny in the Curragh, and a succession of generals were summoned to Buckingham Palace. It was soon established that there had been no mutiny, that Paget had misunderstood his ministerial briefing; and the officers' resignations were set aside. "I am glad to say," wrote George, "that the officers who resigned have been told to return to their commands in Ireland, so all is as before, so the danger for the moment is over."'

And there we are, and that's all it was, and it's perfectly clear. In that version, anyway, which seems satisfactory. A red-faced old general exceeded his brief and gave his officers an apparent idiotic ultimatum, which several dozen of them protested by resigning their commissions for all of one day before Whitehall cracked down and restored normality. Whereas anyone reading the Wiki article will come away blinded by smoke and dazzled by mirrors and either thinking, 'Wow, man, so there was like this huge conspiracy and it was all covered up and... I mean I don't get the details but like it was huge, dude, at least I think it was only I'm not sure,' or else just thinking, 'What? Excuse me? Did I miss something? How is this some big event and why all the irrelevant conspiracy-theory detail?' Khamba Tendal (talk) 17:50, 23 September 2023 (UTC)