The Regiment of the Infantry of the Line that became to be known as The Royal Ulster Rifles dates backs to the reign of King George III. In 1793 there was some expansion of the Armed Forces to meet the commitments of the war with France. As part of that expansion there were raised two new Regiments of Foot, the 83rd and the 86th. At about the same time the Antrim, Down and Louth Regiments of Militia were raised. All were eventually to become part of The Royal Irish Rifles, which in 1921 became The Royal Ulster Rifles. George III (George William Frederick) (4 June 1738–29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain, and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. ...
The Royal Irish Rifles were connected with the 36th Ulster Division and 16th Irish Division during World War 1. The Ulster Volunteer Force and Young Citizens Volunteers had amalgamated with the 36th whilst the opposing Irish Volunteers had joined the 16th after the outbreak of WW1 averted civil war in Ireland over the Home Rule crisis The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is a Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary group. ... The Irish Volunteers (Óglaigh na hÉireann) were a paramilitary organization established by Irish Nationalists in 1913 to secure and maintain the rights and liberties common to the whole people of Ireland, and to enforce the imminent Home Rule Act. ... Devolution or Home rule is the pooling of powers from central government to government at regional or local level. ...
Finally in 1968 The Royal Ulster Rifles amalgamated with The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and The Royal Irish Fusiliers to form The Royal Irish Rangers. The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. ...
The Royal Ulster Rifles was an Irish infantry regiment of the British Army.
In 1921, following the proclamation of the Irish Free State, the RoyalIrishRifles was renamed the Royal Ulster Rifles, with the regimental district of Louth ceded to the newly independent state.
In 1968, under reforms of the army, the Royal Ulster Rifles was amalgamated with The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and The RoyalIrish Fusiliers to form The RoyalIrish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th).
The Royal Ulster Rifles and The RoyalIrish Fusiliers were both formed in September of 1793 as part of the Expansion of the English Army because of the threat of a French Invasion.
The Royal Ulster Rifles - 83rd Regiment was raised in Dublin on the 1st July 1881.
Reform within the Army led to the Amalgamation of the RoyalIrish Rangers with The Ulster Defence Regiment, on the 1st July 1992, to become the RoyalIrish Regiment.
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