United Nations Peacekeeping Subgroup

The first major operation for the UN beginning in 1960 what began as a peacekeeping mission turned into a peace making one UN troops actively participated in combat during the 4 year deployment. So far we only display the Irish contingent but other nations included Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, Denmark, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Liberia, Malaya, Federation of Mali, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Sweden, Tunisia, United Arab Republic and Yugoslavia so we're happy to accommodate other nations into the display.

Beginning in 1964 this is one of the UN's longest running operations monitoring the peace between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Again so far only the Irish side of the deployment is being represented by the group at the moment specifically the 1964-65 period however later impressions and different nations will be considered for displays. 

Commencing in 1978 this is another long runner by UN standards and in terms of lives one of the most costly with 330 peacekeepers killed since the operation began. Currently Irish deployments from 1988-2000 are covered.

Beginning in 1993 this mission proved to be of the most challenging for the UN, With a mandate to ensure food and medicine was fairly distributed to the Somali population this proved to be a greater challenge than anticipated with various factions seizing the supplies in order to control the population. We currently portray the Irish contingent but like most UN operations  there is always room for others.