Qualla: McCan Barracks https://qualla.com/mccan-barracks en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/k/mccan-barracks-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: McCan Barracks https://qualla.com/mccan-barracks McCan Barracks: Introduction https://qualla.com/mccan-barracks/ Photo credit Laurel Lodged, Public domain. On 13 February 1922, three months after the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in London, two officers met inside a barracks in the small Tipperary town of Templemore. Major Phibbs, Officer Commanding the 10th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment, signed the documents on behalf of the British forces. Commandant Sean Scott, Officer Commanding the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Mid-Tipperary Brigade of the Irish Republican Army, signed on behalf of the Republican side. The British Army marched out. The IRA marched in. The barracks - originally Richmond Barracks, built by the British in the 1810s - was renamed McCan Barracks, after Pierce McCan, the Sinn Féin MP for Mid-Tipperary who had died in Gloucester Prison in 1919 during the influenza pandemic that closed the First World War.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/k/mccan-barracks-wp/gc6k-mccan-barracks-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full McCan Barracks: The Ursuline veto https://qualla.com/mccan-barracks/ Photo credit Laurel Lodged, Public domain. The barracks should not have been in Templemore at all. The first site the British War Office selected, in the early nineteenth century, was beside the River Suir at Thurles - closer to the main roads, with better water and easier supply. But the chosen site was adjacent to the c...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/k/mccan-barracks-wp/gc6k-mccan-barracks-the-fenian-taint.mp3 0:06 3 full McCan Barracks: The German POWs https://qualla.com/mccan-barracks/ Photo credit Laurel Lodged, Public domain. When the First World War began in August 1914, the British government immediately needed places to hold the German prisoners that were already being taken from the Western Front. Richmond Barracks - the future McCan Barracks - was chosen. By the end of 1914 it held over 2,000 Ger...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/k/mccan-barracks-wp/gc6k-mccan-barracks-the-german-pows.mp3 0:06 4 full McCan Barracks: Training for the Somme https://qualla.com/mccan-barracks/ Photo credit Laurel Lodged, Public domain. After the German POWs were moved out, Richmond Barracks became a training centre for the Royal Munster Fusiliers. Thousands of recruits were trained here for the Western Front - for the battlefields of Passchendaele in 1917 and the Somme in 1916. To practise, the recruits sometim...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/k/mccan-barracks-wp/gc6k-mccan-barracks-training-for-the-somme.mp3 0:06 5 full McCan Barracks: 1922-1929: the Irish Army takes the keys https://qualla.com/mccan-barracks/ Photo credit Laurel Lodged, Public domain. After the handover on 13 February 1922, the 2nd Mid-Tipperary Brigade IRA took over under Brigadier James Leahy. Within months the Civil War broke out and the garrison declared for the anti-Treaty side. Pro-Treaty National Army troops occupied Templemore town and were preparing t...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/k/mccan-barracks-wp/gc6k-mccan-barracks-1922-1929-the-irish-army-takes-the-keys.mp3 0:06 6 full McCan Barracks: 1964: the third career https://qualla.com/mccan-barracks/ Photo credit Laurel Lodged, Public domain. In February 1964 the barracks took on its third major role. The Garda Síochána training school, until then housed at Garda Headquarters in Phoenix Park in Dublin, was moved to Templemore. The barracks was completely redesigned and reconstructed by the Department of Justice. After...

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