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Call into Birr Heritage Centre to find out the history of Birr Town. Birr Heritage Centre is now open for visitors to call in and find out more about the old market - garrison town of Birr. A Georgian town steeped in history situated in heart of Ireland.
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Best of Luck to Birr Stage Guild tomorrow night & Saturday night: Sowing the Wind. Also, next week: Faithful Rising: A documentary, presented by Tullamore-born historian Dr. Paul Rouse (UCD), tells the stories of two Offaly men who took part in The 1916 Rising, Peadar Bracken from Tullamore and Éamonn Bulfin from Birr. http://www.birrtheatre.com
BIRR VINTAGE WEEK AND CURRAGH RACE
Rare Footage, Birr Vintage Week, taken: 1973 Uploaded onto You Tube by: British Movietone the world's greatest newsreel archive, spanning the period 1895 to 1986.
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Crinkill Barracks: Built between 1809 & 1812. The complex could accommodate over 1,200 men and 500 more under canvas and eventually included a chapel, school, its own gasworks, gym, and graveyard.The Leinster Regiment, formed in 1881, had their depot here. The barracks were handed over to the Irish Free State on 13 February 1922, burned down by Repubican forces on 14 July 1922. Little now survives at Crinkill except most of the perimeter wall and the graveyard.
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