The Fomin mutiny on the Don, 1920-1922. It was as a commander of a cavalry squadron in the stanitsa of Veshenskaia in late 1920 that Fomin launched his mutiny. James Daly was executed in India for Mutiny. At Jullundur he was in the Connaught Rangers an Irish Regiment of the British Army. Mutiny in the ranks the affair of the Connaught Rangers, 1920. K 93 / 1391; Production date. Connaught Rangers Mutiny in India 1920 The Connaught Rangers mutinied because of the atrocities committed by the Black and Tans in Ireland. History Ireland. Daly’s reburial in Ireland helped to stir public interest in the Connaught Rangers mutiny. While some press accounts told a straightforward story of British oppression and Irish heroism, two dramatic treatments of the mutiny attempted to grapple with the ambiguities of the protest. Glyn Jones’s The 8. London’s Old Vic Theatre in 1. Indian servants. Daly refers to an Indian barber (who in the play brings news of the mutiny to Solon) as . The 8. 8 also attracted criticism from the conservative British press in the midst of the Northern Irish conflict. The Financial Times commented in a negative review of the play that . The soldiers in the play express sympathy for Indian nationalism, drawing parallels between the 1. Amritsar Massacre and British Army attacks on Dublin civilians, but also express their fear of falling victim to an Indian revolt. Kavanagh’s play also portrays an important reality of the mutiny: not all of the Connaught Rangers at Jullundur and Solon were willing to cast their lot in with the mutineers. A soldier named Browne from Boyle, Co. Roscommon, argues that he cannot join the protest . Like me father and his before him. It’s what we Brownes do, you know. My people come from Boyle, the barracks is there—it does a lot for the town . I can’t be part of this—I just can’t.’King House Museum. The Connaught Rangers barracks in Boyle that Browne refers to now houses the King House Museum. The galleries in this restored eighteenth- century Ascendancy mansion include an exhibit on the history of . The displays feature artefacts of the Connaught Rangers and chronicle the experiences of the soldiers who fought in the regiment during its 1. It concludes with a room devoted to the mutiny, which features a life- size representation of James Daly praying in his cell the night before his execution. A display stresses the concern of the mutineers for their friends and family at home rather than for an abstract republican ideal: . Soldiers of the British Empire, they staged a protest against the British Army in Ireland. The mutineers feared falling victim to an Indian uprising in the Punjab, but nonetheless inspired Indian nationalists as well as Irish republicans. Lee, Austin (2011) 'US Intervention in Russia 1918-1920: the Forgotten Mutiny,' Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University. Whilst the mutinies in the German and French Navies in the First World War have been well documented little information is available concerning the British Royal Navy. Various and sometimes conflicting interpretations of the mutiny over the past 9. Ireland’s multifaceted relationship with India, as well as the complexities of commemoration in the Irish republic. Babington, The devil to pay: the mutiny of the Connaught Rangers, India, July 1. Barnsley, 1. 99. 1). T. Silvestri, Ireland and India: nationalism, empire and memory (Basingstoke, 2.
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