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In 1950 he attended the British Army"s Staff College in Camberley.
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James Quinn
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Born in Tipperary in 1918, he joined the Irish Army as an officer cadet in 1938, and was commissioned in 1939. He served in the infantry throughout The Emergency. He served subsequently as instructor in Irish Military College, being promoted Colonel in 1959.
In that year he was appointed Colorado of the Irish Army"s Sixth Brigade.
He served with the United Nations in the Congo (UN Operation in the Congo) from 1961 to 1962. He saw further service with the United Nations in Cyprus (United Nations Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus) in 1964.
Quinn was appointed GOC Curragh Command 1968 to 1972, and as GOC Eastern Command 1972 to 1976. Later that year he was promoted to Major General and appointed commander of United Nations Forces in Cyprus (United Nations Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus), in which capacity he served until 1981.
He was the first Irish Army general to command British troops, since Britain provided a battalion as its contribution to United Nations Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus. Earlier, an Irish army battalion had served in United Nations Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus when the force commander (Brigadier AJ Wilson) was a British general.
He retired from the Irish Army in 1982, and died later that year.
