Explore our growing online Virtual Military Gallery

When you search for a subject please enter your key word in the Search window below. You can narrow your search by selecting View for a choice of Listings (written texts) or Images (photographs/maps). Then you can select Type to narrow the search specifically for Artefacts, Events, Persons or Stories. Alternatively, please choose All to browse a variety of listings related to your search. You can explore the entire collection using one of the other fours boxes of search tools and we recommend Inspire Me and View Timeline for our new visitor.

View Listing

Search for and read about people, places, events and the battalions in our regiments

View Images

View a pictorial display of some of our most significant artefacts and of people and places in our history

View Timeline

Scroll through an interactive, timeline view of our history

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Welcome to the Virtual Military Gallery

'I turned over one poor chap on a rocky, bloody crag on Tanngoucha. He was facing the right way, the last round of a clip in the breech and three dead Germans in front of him. His name was Duff. After all is over - and the remainder of the Empire is understandably irritated with Ireland - I hope these countless Duffs, from both the North and the South, and in all three services, will be remembered.
(Brigadier Nelson Russell, Commander 38 (Irish) Brigade, 1942-44)

Museums

For individual museum opening times and information, please click on the relevant museum below:
- Inniskillings Museum
- Royal Ulster Rifles Museum
- Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum
- Royal Irish Regiment Museum

Research Database

We have a large archive of soldier records. Trace your military heritage through our Research Database.

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