One hundred years ago, in March 1924, about 50 officers of the National Army who were facing demobilization in the post-Civil War reduction of the army, seized weapons, and absconded from their posts.

Could it have been a prelude to the renewed Civil War or was it a farce, characterised by the arrest of many of the leaders in a public house on Parnell Street? Was it almost a rebellion or the last act of defiance by the surviving members of Collins’s squad? How did the government react and how did they use the findings of the subsequent enquiry?

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