↑ "Uniformed gardaí will remain unarmed - Commissioner". Irish Times. 29 April 2008. Dicapai 27 October 2017. [The Commissioner] told delegates there were 3,500 armed members - almost a quarter of the force - and that his focus was on giving them the best training.
↑ McNiffe, Liam (1997). A History of the Garda Síochána. Dublin: Wolfhound Press. m/s. 24. ISBN0863275818. On 17 August 1922 three small companies of the Civic Guard from Newbridge took a special train to Kingsbridge from where they marched to Dame Street and halted in front of the gates of Dublin Castle. Led by Collins and Staines, they marched in, and the last of the British army and the RIC marched out
