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Collins Barracks ((アイルランド語:Dún Uí Choileáin)) is a former military barracks in the Arbour Hill area of Dublin, Ireland. The buildings are now the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History. Housing both British armed forces, and Irish army garrisons through three centuries, the barracks were the oldest continuously occupied example in the world. Originally called simply The Barracks, and later The Royal Barracks, the name was changed to ''Collins Barracks'' when handed over to the Irish Free State in 1922. Built in 1702, and further extended in the late 18th century and 19th century, the complex's main buildings are neo-classical in style. Since 1997 the barracks have been home to collections of the National Museum of Ireland (for ''Decorative Arts and History'' exhibits), and the original structures have seen some award winning redevelopment and conservation work to support this new role. The museum faces the Luas tram "red line" (''Museum'' stop), a Memorial Garden at Croppies Acre marking the 1798 rebellion, and the River Liffey. == 18th century to 1920s – British garrison == Save for the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, the barracks is the earliest public building in Dublin, and was built from 1701 by the then Surveyor General under Queen Anne, Thomas de Burgh.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Archiseek entry on Collins Barracks )〕 (Burgh was also the architect of the famous library building at Trinity College, Dublin.) Built on a site originally intended for a mansion of the Duke of Ormonde, the complex has several large squares, each open on the south side. The largest square(''Clarke's Square'') has arcaded colonnades on the east and west sides, and the main buildings are faced with granite. The oldest inhabited barracks in Europe (and once one of largest), it was originally known simply as ''the Barracks'' and later the ''Royal Barracks'', and a mainstay of British forces on the island for several hundred years. Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the main leaders of the 1798 rebellion was held prisoner, court-martialled and convicted of treason at the Barracks. Through the 19th century, up to 1,500 troops of various ''Regiments of Foot'' (and up to two ''troops of horse'') were stationed at the barracks. However, by the 1880s conditions of accommodation were dangerously inadequate, and strongly criticised following an investigation by Commissioners of the War Office as levels of disease increased. This included outbreaks of enteric fever which claimed the lives of a number of men, from amongst which were members of the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars – predecessor to the current regiment: The Queen's Royal Hussars. During the 1916 Easter Rising, the 10th Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and other forces were deployed from the Royal Barracks〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Australian soldiers in the Easter Rising 1916 (Accounts and notes of forces deployed from Royal Barracks in 1916) )〕 to fight the insurgent Irish Citizen Army and Irish Volunteers who occupied strongly held positions close by on Usher's Island (under Sean Heuston), the Four Courts (under Ned Daly), and the GPO (under Pádraig Pearse). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Collins Barracks, Dublin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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