List of Irish military casualties overseas

This is a list of Irish military personnel of the Defence Forces who have died while serving overseas.

Since the 1960s, 88 personnel (87 from the Irish Army and one from the Air Corps) have died in overseas deployments.

[1][2][3] Fatalities have primarily occurred as part of United Nations peacekeeping missions, with 26 lives lost in the Congo under ONUC; 9 in Cyprus under UNFICYP; two in the Middle East under UNTSO; 47 in Lebanon under UNIFIL; one in East Timor under UNTAET; one in Liberia under UNMIL and two in Europe under the EU Nordic Battlegroup and EUMS.

A Ceremonial Guard at the site of the National Memorial to members of the Defence Forces who died in the Service of the State, Merrion Square , Dublin
Lebanon cedar planted in Newbridge, County Kildare , Ireland to commemorate Irish soldiers who died on UN service.
An MP stands on duty below the national flag at the National Memorial