Hi Dennis, You are correct. The Dail Eireann (Irish Parliament, duly elected in the 1918 General Election) in January 1919 set up all departments needed to run a country including a court system and an army. The Irish Volunteers became the army of the Irish Repubic and soon became known as the Irish Republican Army. There is an army list of the brigades by county, during the Irish War of Independence. A copy of the list is included in a book of essays about the Irish War of Indpendence - With the I.R.A. in the Fight For Freedom 1919 to the Truce. I have the book on loan from a library. You can contact me off list if you want a name checked. Graham I sent you an email off list but it bounced back. Beannachtai, Margaret (Máiread) ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Ahern To: GENIRE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 4:37 AM Subject: Re: IRA regiments - 1916 - 1921 Graham Coward <cowardz@zalphalink.com.au> wrote: : On 27/06/2005 5:56 AM, Jim McCormick wrote: :> I am trying to locate information about my g-uncle who participated in the :> rebellion (1916 - 1921). He was an active member of the IRA and was :> incarcerated by the British forces during that period. I understand that if :> I have his regiment, I may be able to get his service information from the :> GRO in Dublin. Can anyone tell me where I might be able to get a list of :> the IRA regiments by county? (He was from Cavan.) :> : I too would like to locate these documents. However as Ireland was part : of the UK at the time and the "Volunteers" as I believe they were called : were an illegal organization, I very much doubt that they exist. I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the possibility of there having been records of service in pre-Republic military units. Wasn't there some sort of pension or allowance available for men who had served? They must have had to been able to prove their service. -dja