Irish brigade
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Irish brigade. The original ‘Irish Brigade’ comprised regiments in the service of France after 1691 (see
foreign armies, irish in). A variety of later ventures sought to capitalize on this romanticized tradition. Irish brigades fought for the pope in the era of
Italian unification, on both sides during the
American Civil War, and for the
Boers. During the
First World War, Roger
Casement attempted to form an Irish brigade from prisoners of war in Germany. Eoin
O'Duffy led an Irish brigade which fought for Franco in the
Spanish Civil War. During the
Second World War Churchill, much to the chagrin of the Northern Ireland government, formed an Irish brigade which fought with distinction in North Africa and Italy. Away from the battlefield, the title was also appropriated, in the early 1850s, by Irish opponents of the
ecclesiastical titles bill.
Hiram Morgan
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