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
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“Louise, something in me tightens when an American intellectual’s eyes shine, and they start to talk to me about the Russian people. Something in me says, Watch it, a new version of Irish Catholicism is being offered for your faith.”
—Warren Beatty (b. 1937)
“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)