Military Rowdyism: the Derbyshire (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment in Limerick, 1888
Why a song provoked mob violence in the Limerick city's streets in 1888.
Irish Garrison Towns
Stories of soldiers in Irish streets
Irish Garrison Towns
Stories of soldiers in Irish streets
The death of Robert Sim: a protest against flogging in Limerick city, 1867
On a grey February Monday in 1867, an inquest jury of 12 Limerick men met in the hospital of the New Barracks, to investigate the death of Private Robert Sim ‘then and there lying dead’ before them. Sim, of the…
The Garrison Game? Soccer’s ‘foreign’ image in Irish popular culture
A guest post from David Toms about the ‘garrison game’…. ‘Support your own games. Don’t mind the skulker and miserable kind of fellow who says, “There’s no game like Soccer”, “No game like Rugby”- in fact, “No game like the…