From Athlone the regiment marched to Dublin, in May, 1826; and furnished a detachment of grenadiers to Hacketstown, to mount guard at the residence of the Lord-Lieutenant, during his stay in that part of the country.
Lieutenant-General the Honorable Sir G. Lowry Cole, G.C.B., was removed to the Twenty-seventh, or the Inniskilling Regiment, of Foot, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the Thirty-fourth, by Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Bart, G.C.B., G.C.H., by commission, dated the 16th of December, 1826.
1827
1828
After remaining twelve months at Dublin, the head-quarters were removed to Templemore, in May, 1827, and in September to Galway, furnishing twelve detachments to military stations in that neighbourhood. In April, 1828, the regiment was removed to Buttevant; and in July to Cork.
1829
During the six years which had elapsed from the date of the arrival of the regiment from India, it had recruited its ranks and attained a state of discipline and efficiency, and its turn to proceed abroad having arrived in August, 1829, the service companies embarked from Cork for North America; they sailed in two divisions, the first under Major the Honorable H. S. Fane, and the second under Captain Tew, and arriving at Nova Scotia in October, landed at Halifax, where they remained nine months.
1830
In July, 1830, the head-quarters were removed from Halifax to Fort Charlotte, and detachments were sent to Prince Edward’s Island, Annapolis, Windsor, York Redoubt, Sydney, Cape Breton, and St. Andrews, New Brunswick.
1832
The regiment remained detached until August, 1832, when the head-quarters, consisting of one field officer, two captains, five subalterns, two staff, twenty-three serjeants, nine drummers, and three hundred and sixty-seven rank and file, embarked on board His Majesty’s ship “Winchester” for New Brunswick, disembarked at St. John’s, and proceeded to Fredericton, having left at the former station one field officer, one captain, two subalterns, six serjeants, one drummer, and a hundred and seven rank and file, which followed them on the 1st of September, in His Majesty’s brig “Arachne,” and arrived at St. John’s, New Brunswick, on the 4th September, 1832.