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The National Army, sometimes unofficially referred to as the Free State Army or the Regulars, was the army of the Irish Free State from January 1922 until October 1924. Its role in this period was defined by its service in the Irish Civil War , in defence of the institutions established by the Anglo-Irish Treaty .
Seán Hogan's (No. 2) flying column, 3rd Tipperary Brigade, during the Irish War of Independence. The 3rd Tipperary Brigade (Irish: Tríú Briogáid Thiobraid Árainn [1]) was one of the most active of approximately 80 such units that constituted the IRA during the Irish War of Independence.
Daly resigned from the Free State army in 1924 after an incident in Kenmare, Kerry, concerning the daughters of a doctor. A court martial was held but collapsed as no one was prepared to give evidence. [13] He volunteered his services for the Irish Army again in 1940 and was appointed as a Captain to the non-combatant Construction Corps.
A Free State column also dispersed anti-Treaty IRA forces in County Donegal in Ireland's north-west. [17] The largest seaborne landings took place in the south. Ships disembarked about 2,000 well equipped Free State troops into the heart of the "Munster Republic" and caused the rapid collapse of the Republican position in this province.
The Free State then used the Barracks as a training Depot, [7] and troops there were used in the Cork and Kerry landings in August 1922. The barracks housed forces of the Free State Army through the remainder of the Irish Civil War and for 13 years was home to units of the Southern Command of the Irish Defence Forces. The Barracks was then ...
The Dublin Guard provided most of the ceremonial parties that took over barracks and installations from the British, wearing a dark green uniform with brown leather webbing. When the Free State Army was expanded to over sixty thousand men, most of its troops were equipped with dyed British uniforms and webbing.
In 1922, the Anglo-Irish Treaty created the Irish Free State, and its Provisional Government formed the National Army.To establish itself as carrying on the tradition of the pre-independence movement, the Army adopted Óglaigh na hÉireann as its Irish language name, [17] and also adopted the cap badge and buttons of the Irish Volunteers; the badge incorporates the title in its design.
The barracks were taken over by forces of the Irish Free State in 1922 and renamed Columb Barracks in Honour of Adjutant Patrick Columb, a member of the Irish Free State Army who had been killed in Mullingar by Anti-Treaty Forces (Irregular IRA) in April 1922. [1]