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Collins Barracks (Irish: Dún Uí Choileáin) is a former military barracks in the Arbour Hill area of Dublin, Ireland. The buildings now house the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History .
Collins Barracks (Irish: Dún Uí Choileáin) [1] is a military barracks on the Old Youghal Road on the north side of Cork in Ireland.Originally serving as a British military barracks from the early 19th century, it was handed-over to the Irish military following the Irish War of Independence, and remains the headquarters of the 1st Brigade of the Irish Army. [2]
The exhibition of the collection of Albert Bender was remounted at Collins Barracks in 2008, a collection which had been previously displayed at the museum in Kildare Street from the 1930s to 1973. [56] [57] Bender was an Irish-born Jew who had emigrated to San Francisco, where he amassed a large fortune from his work in insurance.
National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History, including the Great Seal of the Irish Free State, is the part of the collection kept at the large Collins Barracks site, a former military barracks named after Michael Collins in 1922. This site, opened in 1997, also holds the Museum's administrative centre, a shop and a coffee shop.
The site, located on the north bank of the River Liffey to the south of Collins Barracks (formerly the Royal Barracks) is traditionally believed to have been used as a mass grave for Irish rebel casualties of the 1798 Rebellion; they were known as Croppies due to their short-cropped hair.
Soldiers parade at Collins Barracks in Cork, HQ of the Army's 1st Brigade. The 1st Brigade (1 BDE) (Irish: 1ú Briogáid) is a brigade of the Irish Army.The brigade, which was known as 1st (Southern) Brigade until the 2012 reorganisation of the army, has its headquarters in Collins Barracks in Cork.
The prison is located on Arbour Hill at the rear of the National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks, Dublin 7. The area is also the site of the Arbour Hill Military Barracks. Bus Route(s): Nos. 37, 39, 70 from the city centre.
Collins Barracks, Dublin; Overseas. A UN helicopter lands at an Irish outpost in At Tiri, Lebanon. Camp Shamrock, United Nations Post 2-45, At Tiri, Lebanon;