Post Tagged with: "Royal Munster Fusiliers"

  THE Royal Munster Fusiliers Association, in co-operation with the Great War Society and the Cork Branch of the Western Front Association, will stage an exhibition at the Kerry Library Tralee on the 17th and 18th February 2017 entitled “The Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Kerry Connection.” Tralee military barracks […]

THE unveiling of plaques in remembrance of Tralee people who died in World War I will take place this Saturday at the Munster Fusiliers Monument at  Ballymullen at 3pm. Two new plaques – one with the 101 names of members of the Munster Fusiliers and the other inscribed with 125 […]

THE Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí transition year class has been invited to Birmingham Library to showcase a film they created about local who fought for the Munster Fusiliers in WWI. They specifically focused on the Gallipoli landing of 1915. This was an initiative of the National Museum of Ireland, Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí were […]

THE front of the Royal Munster Fusiliers Monument at Ballymullen had red paint smeared on it during the night in what one councillor described as a “disheartening” incident. The monument, which was erected in May, pays tribute to The Royal Munster Fusiliers, who were stationed in Ballymullen barracks up until Irish independence. Kerry County […]

  IF you were passing Ballymullen recently, you may have noticed a new monument has been erected in Christ The King Park. The impressive structure is in memory of the Royal Munster Fusiliers,  who were stationed in the barracks from the 1880s up to independence. The monument was agreed to be built by […]