Irish Brigade

Irish Brigade may refer to:

  • Irish Brigade (French), the Jacobite brigade in the French army, 1690–1792
  • Irish Brigade (U.S.), pro-Union Civil War brigade of Irish immigrants
  • Irish Brigade (Rome) under Myles O'Reilly, and supported by Cardinal Cullen, that defended Rome in the Second Italian War of Independence.
  • Tyneside Irish Brigade, World War I British Army brigade of Irish immigrants in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  • Irish Brigade (Spanish Civil War), organised by Eoin O'Duffy to fight for Franco's Nationalists

Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or brigade:

    Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.
    Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)

    Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)