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Hi to all following this and thanks for your time.
I have received this from the Hussars Museum.

All records of soldiers posted to the Curragh 1914 to 1922 were repatriated back to England in 1922 when the British Army evacuated. The National Archives hold the War Office files. They also suggested The Department of Early Printed books in Trinity College Dublin as they have copies of British Army lists

This is all getting beyond my skill level now and I also feel we may be talking about different Edward Floods.

All the evidence I have comes from family sources but also Ancestry.
My Edward Flood was born in 1883 in Preston. He is on the 1891 census with his mother father and two sisters, Lilain is the one who is my wifes grandmother.
On the 1901 census he is living in Wigan with the Atherton family who are his mothers family.
On the 1911 census he is in Belfast but there are inconsistencies with dates in particular the length and marriage and the age of one of his children. Family history says he had 7 two of whom died which matches the 1911 census. His wife was Mary. Between 1901 and 1911 we know nothing except what has come down through the family.
The two photos come from within the family collection.
My wifes grandmother visited Ireland to see her family we think in the 1950's.

We have Edwards death certificate for 1963 in Londonderryon which it states he was 84 but caant have been as he would only have been 80.
Lots of inconsistencies in his life but then he had an odd childhood. His grandfather was a criminal and ended up in the workhouse and his father fell in Preston dock and drowned.

It would seem the soldier Jim1 has found may not be Edward which increase the mystery.

Can I ask Jim1 where he got all this - just for my own knowledge of sources.

Thanks

Many thanks to all who contributed. The bit about the unit being in Ireland sounds very plausible. We lost track of him from Wigan in 1901 living with an aunt and Belfast in 1911 with children who must have been from a previous marriage.
I will post anything more I find but I am much further on now.

Thanks Jim1. Edward is certainly difficult to pin down. He is my wife's great uncle and we have family evidence of him, those photos and his death certificate. We know he lived in Belfast in 1911 with 5 children, though even there at the age of 29 he is down as married 16 years. (possible mistake in transcription). His death certificate puts him in a suburb of Londonderry.
I have hit a blank on his army record completely. There is no evidence that he fought in WW1 at all and as he would have been 31 in 1914 I wonder whether his army service is largely prewar, possibly in Ireland. Maybe I will get results eventually.

Thanks