With Portobello Barracks in Dublin scheduled to be handed over to Irish control today and the same happening at Victoria Barracks in Cork tomorrow, the presence of the British army in Ireland is ...

Given its possible extra security obligations, the British Army may well need to boost its ranks with further recruits.

Operation Banner, the name given to the army's support role for the police during the Troubles, lasted for 38 years. It was the longest continuous campaign in the history of the British Army.

THE British army has launched a major recruitment drive in the Republic in an effort to exploit the current ban on signing up new personnel to the Defence Forces.

Two British military members were killed and another four people wounded in a "serious shooting incident" at an army base in Northern Ireland, police said.

Further Reading: Neil Richardson, According to Their Lights. Stories of Irishmen in the British Army, Easter 1916 (Collins Press, 2015).

If politics failed and Protestant paramilitary groups or the British army turned their guns on Catholics, the IRA could defend them. That was before Sept. 11.

Wednesday marks 50 years since the start of British Army operation in Northern Ireland. It was the beginning of the lengthiest continuous campaign in British military history.

Sinn Fein MP Michelle Gildernew said the British Government was "engaging in rationalisation, not demilitarisation". "People in this part of Tyrone have been the victims of an upsurge in British Army ...

British Army officers subjected prisoners in Northern Ireland to controversial "waterboarding" interrogation techniques during the 1970s, it has been reported.

FIANNA FÁIL TD Cathal Crowe yesterday claimed in the Dáil that the British Army never bombed or shot civilians in Ireland. He made the remark during a Labour motion calling for the Irish ...

From Wednesday, there will be no more than 5,000. The head of the Army in Northern Ireland, General Nick Parker, said the operation helped create the conditions for a political solution.