Military

Before Sunday

On 30 January 1972 the British Army deployed the 1st Parachute Regiment to conduct an arrest operation in Derry during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march. Twenty-six civil rights protestors were shot, fourteen died, and the day has ...

Forward the Rifles

The battlefields of Gallipoli and Salonica were a far cry from life on a small working farm in County Louth, Ireland, and yet, in 1915, Captain David Campbell, M.C., 6th Royal Irish Rifles, found himself in the searing Turkish heat, confronted by ...

Images of Sarsfield Barracks

Kerry & the Royal Munster Fusiliers

Ballymullen Barracks in Tralee was the regimental depot of the Royal Munster Fusiliers prior to the establishment of the Irish Free State. It was through the barracks gates that Kerrymen enlisted for a career in the Munsters. Kerry and the Royal M...

Not while I have Ammo

During the Irish Civil War, between the 15 and 20 July 1922, the Republican-held Strand Barracks in Limerick, on what is now Clancys Strand, came under constant ferocious attacks from Free State troops.


They attacked the barracks repeatedl...