Duties
The duties which accompanied this new role were to oppose airborne invasion and to counter fifth columnists, in the guise of the IRA. Northern Ireland, was considered unique as an armed group pledged to insurrection and overthrow of the state did not exist in Britain. German Airborne landings, were a major fear and both the British Government, and the Government in Northern Ireland were to seek cooperation from the Éire authorities for a joint response to an expected German invasion- Plan W.
Some members of the UDV and later, the Home Guard underwent training in sabotage and guerilla fighting as part of the plans to repel an anticipated German invasion.
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Famous quotes containing the word duties:
“It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)
“The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call “revivals” as did the backslidings of the people in those days.”
—Corra May Harris (1869–1935)