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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.

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