'Army Crisis' 1924 [Mulcahy (R.) & O'Duffy (E.)  During...

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'Army Crisis' 1924

[Mulcahy (R.) & O'Duffy (E.)  During the so-called 'Army Crisis' of 1924, when alleged I.R.B. influence and cuts in manpower led to a threatened mutiny, Gen. O'Duffy briefly resumed command of the Army. The file includes a typescript list (carbon copy) headed "Old I.R.A. Men's Association. Re-Organised I.R.B. etc. etc." listing a number of 'persons of high rank' under columns headed 'Engaged in its activities' and 'In touch, in sympathy or coquetting with the organisation.' the first column is headed by Joe Mc Grath TD, Maj. Gen. Liam Tobin and Major Gen. Tom Cullen' (all associates of Michael Collins), etc. (two pages), with a further three page list of 'Officers who resigned owing to crisis' with manuscript additions in O'Duffy's hand, in all over 100 names. 
Also with a later exchange between O'Duffy and Mulcahy, as follows:
Press report headed "General Mulcahy resents a speech" (by O'Duffy); a draft reply in O'Duffy's hand (Evidently to Mulcahy, headed 'Personal'); and an A.L.s. from Mulcahy to O'Duffy, 7.11.24, accepting O'Duffy's explanation, 4pp, with a few related documents; and also a manuscript document in O'Duffy's hand headed "While G.O.C.F.' listing improvements in pay, pensions and conditions achieved under his command, and a two page manuscript document, in his hand apparently text of an address to trainee officers.
As an Archive File, w.a.f. (1)