Английская Википедия:Hugo MacNeill (Irish Army officer)
Lieutenant General Hugo MacNeill (1900–1963) was a twentieth-century Irish soldier and first president of the Organisation of National Ex-Servicemen in Ireland.
Life and military career
Born in 1900,[1] he was the nephew of politician Eoin MacNeill (1867–1945).[2][3]
Hugo MacNeill was member of Fianna Éireann and the Irish Volunteers before becoming an officer of the National Army during the Irish Civil War.[3] In 1923, he was promoted to colonel after an intelligence windfall allowed him to prevent a series of Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacks in Dublin. In 1924 he was promoted to major general and appointed assistant Chief of Staff of the National Army.[4][5]
In 1926 MacNeill attended the US Army Command and Staff Course in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.[6] He was in command of the Irish Army's Second (Northern) Division during The Emergency (1939-1945).[7]
He was promoted to lieutenant general in 1946, although without appointment.
MacNeill's main activity following retirement was the co-ordination of An Tóstal festivals in the 1950s. He was also the first president of the Organisation of National Ex-Servicemen.[8] He died in 1963.[9]
Controversies
MacNeill was reputedly sympathetic to German interests,[10][11][12] and some sources suggest he approached the German diplomatic legation in the early 1940s,[13] without apparent authorisation. These approaches were reputedly to seek German assistance in the event that Britain invaded neutral Ireland.[14] Playing both sides, he accepted the covert aid of the British Army in training his division, notably in the establishment of a "battle school" at Gormanston and secret training of selected Irish troops in commando techniques in Northern Ireland.Шаблон:Citation needed
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