Links to High Resolution Photographs of British Army Facilities in Dublin, 1865-1917
Of the regular army soldiers that appear in Ulysses, the straggling bandsmen of the Seaforth Highlanders were quartered at Richmond Barracks and Privates Carr and Compton called Portobello Barracks home. On Bloomsday, the 2nd Bat./Seaforth Highlanders was stationed at Richmond Barracks; the 4th Bat./Middlesex Regiment and 4th Bat./Royal Warwickshire Regiment at Portobello.
Dublin, 1904
Army Facilities and Places in Ulysses
National Library of Ireland
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From The Lawrence Collection
All photographs were taken by John French between 1865 and 1917.
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HQs for various support branches.
One infantry battalion and quarters for support troops.
Two infantry battalions.
7th Inf. Battalion; 2nd Bde HQ & support units.
Two infantry battalions.
Depot for two militia infantry battalions, one artillery battalion, and two Imperial Yeomanry squadrons.
Housing Estate
Quarters for support and services troops.
Nursing home for army pensioners and HQ for Irish Command.
Army hospital that dates to the late 18th Century.
Army orphanage and boarding school for sons of Irish soldiers.
One infantry battalion.
Was the Irish army's Griffith Barracks until 1988. In 1991, the facility was acquired by the Business and Accounting Training College, a private institution founded in 1974. When the school relocated, its board renamed it Griffith College.
From Other Collections
Elinor Vere O'Brien, Wiltshire Photographic Collection, WIL 59[7]. Disused in 1904.
Demolished
Keogh Brothers, Keogh Photographic Collection, KE 108. Dublin District recruiting headquarters. Completely destroyed during the Easter Rising of 1916.
Alexander C. Morgan, Morgan Aerial Photographic Collection, NPA MOR2059. Munitions stores for the Dublin Garrison. At the time of this photograph, served the same purpose for the Irish army.
OPW historic property in need of major repair. Closed to the public.
Pending
Still searching the web for suitable photographs (pre-WWI). If you know of any online, or possess such photographs and wish to share them, please contact F.F. Simulations, Inc. Thank you.
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Arbour Hill Hospital
Rebuilt 1909 and renamed King George V Hospital.
Irish Defence Forces hospital.
Isolation Hospital (Montpelier Hill)
Sometime before Bloomsday, was converted by the War Office to one of the few army hospitals for women and children (dependents, nurses, and schoolmistresses). Note that schoolmistresses and nurses were contract civilian employees who were subject to military discipline.
All that remains of the hospital (in background) are ruins. The RAMC barracks (midground) seems intact.
Mountjoy Barracks
Islandbridge Barracks
Housing Estate
Dublin Detention Facility (Arbour Hill)
Civil facility for male sex offenders. In the lower-right is the former Garrison Church mentioned in Ulysses.
Grangegorman Military Cemetery
OPW property; last burial in 1999.
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