Great Britain

The Royal Irish Rifles

	Kingdom of Great Britain
1793:	83rd Regiment of Foot │ │	86th (Shropshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot │
1794:	2nd Bn raised │	│ │
1794:	2nd Bn → 134th Foot │	│ │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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1804:	2nd Bn raised │	│ │
1809:	│ │ │	86th (Leinster) Regiment of Foot │
1812:	│ │ │	86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot │
1813:	│ │	2nd Bn raised │
1814:	│ │	2nd Bn disbanded │
1817:	2nd Bn disbanded │	│ │
1859:	83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot │	│ │ │
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	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:	1st Bn,	2nd Bn,
	The Royal Irish Rifles
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1921:	The Royal Ulster Rifles │
1922:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1948:	2nd Bn disbanded │
1948:	part of The North Irish Brigade │
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1958:	│
1968:	2nd Battalion, The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th)
	part of The King’s Divisioni
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1992:	2nd Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th and the Ulster Defence Regiment)
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1993:	disbanded