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The Irish Defence Forces, Óglaigh na h-Eireann - Official site for the Irish Army, Naval Service, and Air Corps.
The Irish Naval Reserve - Unofficial. Information about organisation, activities, recruiting and history. Has contact details and a guestbook.
Irish Military Online - Unofficial. Covers the Irish Defence Forces, including information about history, organisation weapons and equipment. Has a discussion forum.
Irish Air Corps Photographs - Unofficial. Photos and Information, Message Board and Irish Military Aviation links
Irish Military Insignia HomePage - Unofficial. Images of hundreds of flashes, badges, rank insignia and brassards used by the Irish Defence Forces, past and present.
Military Heritage Trust of Ireland - Includes information about the trust, a newsletter, mission statement and a discussion forum.
Military Heritage Tours Ltd. - Offering military history related tours and lectures. Information about the company and services provided as well as a booking facility and a guestbook.
Irish Air Corps Pipe Band - Unofficial. Includes a history of the band, calendar of upcoming performances, a photo gallery and samples of their music.
2 Cavalry Squadron - Unofficial. Includes details about history, equipment, a Roll of Honour and unit activities.
11 Field CIS Company (FCA) - Unofficial. Information about the unit including recruitment, history, activities. Has a photo gallery and news section.
5 Field Military Police Company (FCA) - Unofficial. Gives a description of the unit, its role and equipment. Has a guestbook and a photo gallery.
Irish Naval Association - Has a history of the association and details of its activities. Also has information about the Naval Service and Slua Muiri.
The Irish United Nations Veterans Association, Post 20. - Details the work of the Irish United Nations Veterans Association Post 20 (Mullingar)and documents the work both historic and current of Irish U.N. Peacekeepers .
Irish United Nations Veterans Association - IUNVA - Information included about the organisation, its aims and objectives, events, a roll of honour, guestbook and contact details.
20 Infantry Battalion, A Company (FCA) - Unofficial. Contains information on training activities, weaponry, recruitment, history and membership.
Defence Forces Training Centre - Official site for DFTC located in the Curragh, Co. Kildare. Includes information about units located there, training conducted and the long history of this establishment.
Bailerweb - Defence Force Images - A collection of Irish Defence Forces shoulder flashes, corps badges and rank markings. Also has Civil Defence material.
Association of Irish Military Parachutists - Includes news, background and membership info.
21 Infantry Battalion (FCA) - Unofficial. Covers the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown to Wicklow area. Information about recruiting and activities. Has a photo gallery and contact details.
irishmilitary.com - Unofficial Irish Military discussion board.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde Military "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Military Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. 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(Ashleigh Brilliant) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard Military It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Military "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein I don't think I'll get married again. 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