The Larne Gunrunning Operation of 1914

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The Larne Gunrunning Operation of 1914

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Location

Larne

Year

1964

Date

Production 22/03/1964

Length

05min 56sec

Audio

sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Gunrunners and participants remember the 1914 gunrunning operation in which a huge number of guns were smuggled into Ulster to the Ulster Volunteer Force. This was a well-organised mission with political backing; the Bangor operation was overseen by Captain James Craig. 

This series of interviews gives fascinating eye-witness accounts of a major historical events. Men and women tell the stories of their roles. 

Notes

This major gun smuggling operation was organised in April 1914 in Ireland by Major Frederick H. Crawford and Captain Wilfrid Spender for the Ulster Unionist Council to equip the Ulster Volunteer Force, formed in resistant to an proposal of Home Rule. The operation involved the smuggling of almost 25,000 rifles and between 3 and 5 million rounds of ammunition from the German Empire, with the shipments landing in Larne, Donaghadee, and Bangor in the early hours between Friday 24 and Saturday 25 April 1914. 

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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