Beggars Bush Barracks

Beggars Bush Barracks
Beggars Bush Barracks
Beggars Bush, Dublin
	The former central garrison headquarters at Beggars Bush Barracks
	Beggars Bush Barracks Location within Dublin
Coordinates	53°20′11″N 6°14′07″W / 53.336371°N 6.235284°W
Type	Barracks
Site information
Operator	British Army (1827–1922); National Army (1922); Irish Army (1922–1929)
Site history
Built	1827
Built for	War Office
In use	1827–1929

Beggars Bush Barracks was a British Army barracks located at Beggars Bush in Dublin, Ireland.

History

The barracks were designed as a training depot for the British Army and were completed in 1827,^[1] built on lands received from George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke. Two squadrons of the South Irish Horse were formed at the barracks in the early 20th century.^[2] The squadrons were mobilised at the barracks in August 1914 before being deployed to the Western Front.^[3]

Beggars Bush Barracks were the first barracks to be handed over to the Irish Republican Army in January 1922.^[4] The barracks then became the new headquarters of the National Army.^[5] Erskine Childers, a leading IRA revolutionary, was executed at the barracks on 24 November 1922 after conviction by an Irish military court for the unlawful possession of a gun, a weapon presented to him by Michael Collins.^[6]

The barracks were decommissioned in 1929 and handed over to the "Gaeltacht Industries Depot" which had responsibility for marketing goods produced in Ireland.^[7] The site is now used by various other Government Departments.^[1] The Irish Labour History Society Museum is based in the former central garrison headquarters^[8] and the National Print Museum is based in the former Garrison Chapel.^[9]