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| rdfs:comment | - The Royal Munster Fusiliers was a regular infantry regiment of the British Army. One of eight Irish regiments raised largely in Ireland, it had its home depot in Tralee. It was originally formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of two regiments of the former East India Company. It served in India and in the Great War. Following establishment of the independent Irish Free State in 1922, the five regiments that had their traditional recruiting grounds in the counties of the new state were disbanded. The regiment won three Victoria Crosses in the Great War.
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| Garrison | - RHQ: Tralee Barracks co. Kerry
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| Nickname | - Old Contemptibles;
- The Dirty Shirts
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| Caption | - "The Kaiser knows the Munsters,
- And all his big battalions, Prussian Guards and grenadiers,
- by the Shamrock on their caps,
- And the famous Bengal Tiger, ever ready for a scrap,
- Fear to face the flashing bayonets of the Munster Fusiliers."
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| Unit Name | - The Royal Munster Fusiliers
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| March | - The British Grenadiers
- Quick: St. Patrick's Day
- Won't You Come Home to Bom-Bombay
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| Mascot | - "Garry", an Irish wolfhound
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| abstract | - The Royal Munster Fusiliers was a regular infantry regiment of the British Army. One of eight Irish regiments raised largely in Ireland, it had its home depot in Tralee. It was originally formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of two regiments of the former East India Company. It served in India and in the Great War. Following establishment of the independent Irish Free State in 1922, the five regiments that had their traditional recruiting grounds in the counties of the new state were disbanded. The regiment won three Victoria Crosses in the Great War.
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