DEFENDING IRELAND’S COASTS AND AIRPORTS DURING THE EMERGENCY
QF 12-POUNDER COASTAL DEFENCE GUNS By Lar Joye Under the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, Britain turned over almost all military facilities in southern Ireland to the Irish Defence Forces, but the Royal Navy retained the use of three deep-water ports at Cobh, Berehaven and Lough Swill (the so-called ‘Treaty Ports’) and British soldiers remained in Ireland … Read more