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Military Barracks, Limerick

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • Thomondrow said:
    Now known as Sarsfield Barracks it is an Irish Army Barracks in Limerick City. It houses both Permanent and Reserve Defence Forces. The barracks is named after Patrick Sarsfield, and is currently the Head Quarters of units of the Southern Brigade Reserve Defence Forces. The march composer Kenneth Alford was posted here with the Royal Irish Fusiliers. See more images and hear his march at link, www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSGttA6IwC4
  • Swordscookie said:
    Ah yes, I remember it well. The building just out of sight on the right was the Officers Mess, the PE/Assembly hall is that building at the end of the square with the glass cupola on top. The buildings on the left were matched with similar buildings on the right and were the billets where the troops lived.
  • happyquails said:
    Is this the same Barracks whose wall faces Roden St ?
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    happyquails I believe so...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Bada Bing!

The Officer and The Lady

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Another photo of them seated and hatless has "[ca. 28 September 1940]" - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000595002
  • beachcomber australia said:
    28 September 1940 was a Saturday ...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq You can't possibly be telling us 28 September 1940, without a day of the week. Shocking dereliction of duty!

    😀
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Aha!

    "Born in Esker, Killoe, Co Longford, Frank Gormley and his brother Michael were part of the Killoe Company (B Company) of the 1st Battalion, Longford Brigade and the North Longford Flying Column during the War of Independence. Frank moved from Adjutant to the leading role of Captain and Commander within B Company when Michael Reynolds replaced Seán Mac Eoin at the head of the Longford Brigade following the Blacksmith's imprisonment in 1921. He also held the role of a secretary to the Dáil Éireann courts. Gormley opposed the Treaty and later won a Dáil Éireann seat for Fianna Fáil in Longford-Westmeath as part of their first government in 1932. He also held the post of captain in the Irish Army, and served until his retirement after World War 2. He married Bridget Doherty in 1940. His brother Michael had served in the First World War and would later hold office as a member of Longford County Council. He died on December 2oth 1974 and is buried in Aughaboy Cemetry in his native Killoe."

    With the 'seated' photo here - www.facebook.com/GeneralSeanMacEoinMonumentInBallinalee/p...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Brilliant. Hello Bridget!

By the left - Quick MARCH!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes as camp as a row of tents! In 1942 via DFArchives
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Reverse-ish view - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000331321 and as a colourized postcard -
    From - irishgarrisontowns.com/guest-post-military-athletics-in-t...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    All gone: OSI 25" map Ok, nearly all: A gateway in streetview (visible from the other side in the middle distance in today's shot), and what the NIAH thinks is an Officers House. The barracks is still marked on the 1930s Cassini 6". the unfortunate events of Civil War destroyed the place
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I was wrong above - Not the reverse view, but the backside / frontside of the barracks. Tower and dome is a constant. See the 25" map.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    A quick Google says that when handed over by the British it had accommodations for 18 officers and 400 men