Regiments Returned from Boer War to Victoria Barracks Cork

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68
Regiments Returned from Boer War to Victoria Barracks Cork
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Plot
These slightly wearylooking soldiers just back from South Africa were perhaps only temporarily housed in their Cork barracks before a wellearned return home Despite Irish misgivings some 30000 Irish soldiers fought in the Boer War In a neat lesson in colonial history the barracks were named after Queen Victoria in 1849 and rapidly renamed Collins Barracks after Irish independence