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How the Garda Training College in Templemore, Co Tipperary housed some of the first German POWs shortly after the opening shots of the First World War were fired. Today Templemore Barracks is famed for being the training college of the Irish Police Force, the Garda Siochana, but for six months from September 1914 to March 1915 it housed over two thousand military prisoners in makeshift camps.