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This is a list of Irish military installations occupied by the Defence Forces (including Army, Air Corps, Naval Service and Reserve Defence Forces) in the Republic of Ireland by province and overseas.
2 Brigade of Irish Army. Drills on the barracks' square (then known as Portobello Barracks) early in the 20th century. Cathal Brugha Barracks (Irish: Dún Chathail Bhrugha) is an Irish Army barracks in Rathmines, Dublin. A key military base of the Irish Defence Forces, it is the headquarters of 2 Brigade, [4] and houses the Military Archives of ...
Aiken Barracks. Aiken Barracks (Irish: Dún Mhic Aogáin) is an army barracks located in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland. The barracks was originally known as Dundalk Barracks and was renamed after Frank Aiken, a commander of the Irish Republican Army and an Irish politician. It is the current Headquarters of the 27 Infantry Battalion of the ...
The Curragh Internment Camp held members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during its 1956–62 Border Campaign. On 2 December 1958, 14 internees escaped from the Camp. The Camp contained approximately 150 men, the last of the internees were eventually released and the internment camp was closed on 11 March 1959.
1702—1997. 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. Previously housing first British Armed Forces and later Irish Army garrisons through three centuries, the barracks were the ...
2nd Battalion, The Rifles. Thiepval Barracks is a British Army barracks and headquarters in Lisburn, County Antrim. It is located near to the Harmony Hill area in Lisburn , a predominately Unionist area. It is also the site of the stone frigate HMS Hibernia, of the Royal Navy Reserve in Northern Ireland.
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]
Following the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the barracks was handed over to the Army of the Irish Free State on 17 December 1922 and renamed McKee Barracks (after Brigadier Dick McKee, a prominent IRA officer and Officer in Command (O/C) of the Dublin Brigade) at some stage between 1926 and 1930. [3][2][4] McKee Barracks is now an administrative centre ...