Wartime Internment
The camp was the location of the Curragh incident in 1914. It was also used as a military detention centre where civil war prisoners and, later, members and suspected members of the Anti-Treaty IRA were interned on various occasions between the 1920s and the 1950s.
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Famous quotes containing the word wartime:
“The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.”
—José Bergamín (18951983)