Beggars Bush

Beggars Bush is the name of a former barracks on Haddington Road in Dublin, Ireland, as well the surrounding area and a nearby pub. The barracks dates from 1827 and is bordered to the east by Shelbourne Road, which used to be the western bank of the River Dodder. The British Army used the barracks as a recruit training depot for the garrison in Ireland. The barracks was handed over to Michael Collins and the Irish military on 31 January 1922, the first British barracks to be handed to the new Provisional Government. Robert Erskine Childers was executed in the barracks on 24 November 1922. The army closed the barracks in the 1920s. The open square just inside the main gate was the infantry parade ground, and was surrounded by the...