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The 2nd Division, nicknamed "Spearhead", was an infantry division in the Irish Army during the Second World War. [1]The division was one of two infantry divisions established by Ireland during the duration of the war.
The plans were prepared by the Royal Engineers' Department, under the direction of architect Major Robert Barklie RE, Larne, County Antrim. [8] An imposing and extravagant cavalry barracks, the style of the Officers' Mess is a mixture between Elizabethan and Queen Anne, and the general appearance of its red brick and red roof tiles, with "traceried windows, floriated pinnacles, parapets and ...
During the Irish Civil War the barracks were seized by the anti-treaty forces; however in the ensuing battle there were many direct hits from gunfire. [4] By the end of the Irish Civil War the infantry barracks were in a very dilapidated state [5] and the artillery barracks had been largely destroyed when a direct hit exploded in the magazine. [4]
A 105mm light gun shoot (Army Reserve) Aeronautics Defense Systems Orbiter Mini UAV System drone operated by the Artillery Corps. The Artillery Corps (ARTY) (Irish: An Cór Airtléire) are the artillery corps of the Irish Army. The Corps provides fire support to other sections of the Army. [1] The Corps was first founded in 1924.
General Order of Battle, November 1943. The 1st Division, nicknamed "Thunderbolt", was an infantry division in the Irish Army during the Second World War. [1]The division was one of two infantry divisions established by Ireland during the duration of the war.
The East Barracks were designed and built by Abraham Hargrave on a site provided by John Anderson between 1801 and 1806. [1] In June 1808 Sir Arthur Wellesley used the barracks as an assembly point from where 9,000 troops would depart for the Cove of Cork and then sail for Portugal to take part in the Peninsular War.
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 Irish Army.
During the Cold War, there were contingency plans in place that, in the event of a nuclear exchange, cabinet ministers, senior civil servants and military advisers would use an underground nuclear bunker at Custume Barracks.