British troops hand over castle and barracks in Athlone to Irish Army

Flash frame of full title - it reads: "A result of the treaty: historic scenes in Athlone. British troops evacuate castle and barracks of one of Britain's strongholds in Ireland & the Irish Army takes possession".

Athlone, Westmeath, Eire (Republic of Ireland, Southern Ireland. Various shots of army vehicles (including steam powered truck towing broken-down cars) leaving barracks through large gates, crowd of civilians watch.

L/S (long shot) of troops marching past crowds and over town bridge.

M/S (medium shot) of Irish soldiers marching into barracks.

M/S of three Irish officers striding across parade ground.

Intertitle reads: "Commandant General McKeon (the Blacksmith of Ballinalee) inspects and addresses his troops".

M/S of McKeon inspecting his troops. Some soldiers are not in full uniform - some wear trilbies instead of caps.

C/U (close up) of McKeon giving speech.

High angled L/S of troops marching through crowded town square).

More shots of Irish troops entering barracks. *

M/S of McKeon attaching flag to flag pole.

M/S of Irish flag being raised.

M/S of row soldiers firing rifles in air.

Top shot crowd cheering.

Intertitle reads: "Last British officer to leave acknowledges the Salute of the I.R.A. guard as he departs from the barracks".

M/S of soldiers standing to attention, an Irish and a British officer salute them before exiting.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Athlone
• Ireland
• British
• Army
• castle
• treaty
• I.R.A.

[allkelly]

The Irish Republican Army of old are nothing to do with todays IRA. They eventually became the Irish Freestate Army with radicals keeping the old name.

[1Fianna]

@allkelly The Free State army were not Republicans, they left the Irish Republican Army which continues to exist to this day. The free staters swore and oath of allegiance to the British crown. Traitors

[deckieg]

Its great to see someone on you tube that's Irish and actually argue a fact without making us look like ignorant belligerent fools.. why is it that every IRA supporter that writes on these blogs have to use bad language and say really dumb things.. and call people they hate what they are not just because it sounds tough to them.. silly Irish people.. by the way I am from Ireland

[musicartism]

There was hope & there was excitement for awhile and then the Free State Army in Athlone turned on former comrades and friends who had fought in the War of Independence with them, and they started arresting and shooting their own people like my grandfather and his friends and more & more people were shot for no good reason and the bitterness was palpable - how in hell did the country ever recover from it all?

[salian66]

collins knew this was the best deal he could get from the british government if he said no the british army would still rule all of ireland today ,the north was never on the table to negotiate still the splinter group did,nt like it spat it,s dummy out,=civil war beaten by the free state.still here today fighting a lost cause.......

[Cliathairi]

@1Fianna You know nothing about irish history do you?

[TheLongfords]

Anyway we are owned by Paks and the IMF now

[countrysong87087]

THE IRA OLD OR NEW OBJECTION THE SAME GET THE BRITS OUT THEY HAVE NO RIGHT IN OUR COUNTRY

[CALIFORNIASAM2]

@HappyValley412 lol i read what you wrote about the british (the only criminals are the british theyre occupying a country for no reason at all they kill civilians for no reason just read on bloody sunday there redcoat)...what about america occupying countries and killing civilians for no reason huh?, what about that huh? what about japan dropping the Bomb and killing millions of innocent men women children huh?, what about vietnam huh?..

no my friend america is worse than the UK period!!!

[sonyipod1987]

Good luck lads. Hope you didn't leave the place in a mess when we were away.

[FatalityG15]

You held back there, didnt you :)

[HLecterPHD]

tally ho chaps, off to colonise some different natives. jolly good.

i mean it is your planet after all.

lets see... africa, noo we've done that, asia...been there, i know lets plant a colony of jews in palestine, sounds like a plan rupert.

[westbelfast100]

@WARISHELL09 it was a peaceful protest by families of RIR and british army victims. Thats all. You need to see the light and accept the 32 County Republic.