In many accounts of the Rising those forces opposing the rebels are simply referred to as ‘the British ... 3rd Reserve Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment. The Marlborough Barracks housed ...

Colours were bestowed by the king to the regiments of his army ... that took place in Dublin as the British army handed over its former barracks and a new Irish army was founded.

Two British officers, deeply influenced by Christian Zionism and the fight against Irish nationalism, are celebrated today ...

The family of a man believed to have been shot dead by the British army have said they have no confidence in a controversial ...

The Royal Irish ... the whole army on such issues as force levels. "The end of Operation Banner will inevitably mean the disbandment of the Home Service element of the Royal Irish Regiment." ...

THE Irish Guards gave three cheers for their absent colonel, the Princess of Wales, during a St Patrick’s Day parade at a barracks in Hampshire. On Sunday, 250 Irish Guardsmen marched onto the ...

1849 marked the last year of the Great Famine and while Athy had suffered none of the losses of the population as suffered on the western seaboard in the south of Ireland, deaths in the Athy Workhouse ...