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An official account in 1801 shows that 57,717 14s 5d was spent in Ireland on the construction of new barracks in that year, while in 1813 the Barrack Office, Dublin published estimates of the total cost of all barracks either completed or in the process of completion. During the reign of Elizabeth I a new fort was built to the south of the city on the site of the former Church of the Cross. Ireland was a very good recruiting ground for the British Army, not only for the Irish Regiments. List of British Army installations C Charlemont Fort D Drumadd Barracks E Ebrington Barracks G Gough Barracks M Mahon Road Barracks Massereene Barracks P Palace Barracks Palace Barracks, Holywood S Shackleton Barracks St Lucia Barracks, Omagh St Patrick's Barracks T Thiepval Barracks V Victoria Barracks, Belfast Categories Pizza delivery men among wounded in Northern Ireland terrorist attack Gerrett Fitzgerald, the Irish Foreign Minister who later became Taoiseach (Prime Minister of the Irish Republic) said if that had happened, we would not have been able to deal with the resulting backlash from avenging Loyalists. war zone: there were frequent gun battles were also seldom mentioned. 1972 was the most violent year of Operation Banner, with multiple attacks against the army and police being considered normal. Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century all the forts were manned by elements of the Royal Garrison Artillery (often artillery militia) and were periodically updated with new guns. Spike Island (Fort Westmoreland): was purchased by the Government from Nicholas Fitton c1779 and fortified with a small 21 gun battery but it was the war against revolutionary France that saw the beginning of the major construction which, in 1790, was named Fort Westmoreland, after the then Lord Lieutenant, the Earl of Westmoreland. the New Lodge area of Belfast. Due to parts of Belfast resembling photographs of the London Blitz the British Government had no option but to send troops to Northern Ireland, dissolve the Northern Ireland Parliament and rule Ulster from London and the role of the army appeared straight forward: to remain neutral whilst protecting the two communities and supporting the police.
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