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Title: Irish Battalions departing Ireland WW1
Post by: irishwarrior on Tuesday 06 September 11 20:56 BST (UK)

Help required please.
I have for years believed that battalions going from Ireland to GB before going of to the fronts all went via Dublin or Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead or Liverpool.
Does any one know if any battalions went via Belfast.
If there were any they may have been part of the 36th (Ulster) Division.
At a local monument (Helen's Tower) about 10 miles east of Belfast mention is made troopships going down (outwards) Belfast Lough.
Billy

Title: Re: Irish Battalions departing Ireland WW1
Post by: DeeBoneham on Thursday 08 September 11 15:17 BST (UK)

There might be some interesting links on here:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fianna/guide/military.html