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Military units

* Irish Brigade (France), the Jacobite brigade in the French army, 1690–1792 * Irish Brigade (Spanish Civil War), organised by Eoin O'Duffy to fight for Franco's Nationalists *
Irish Brigade (Union Army) The Irish Brigade was an infantry brigade, consisting predominantly of Irish Americans, who served in the Union Army in the American Civil War. The designation of the first regiment in the brigade, the 69th New York Infantry, or the "Fighting ...
, pro-Union Civil War brigade of Irish immigrants *
Irish Brigade (World War I) The "Irish Brigade" was an attempt by Sir Roger Casement to form an Irish nationalist military unit during World War I among Irishmen who had served in the British Army and had become prisoners of war (POWs) in Germany. Casement sought to send a ...
, unrealised pro-German brigade of Irishmen recruited among British Army POWs in Germany * Irish expedition to Scotland, an Irish brigade fighting on the Royalist side in Scotland during the War of the Three Kingdoms *
Catholic Irish Brigade (1794–1798) The Catholic Irish Brigade was a unit in the British Army during the French Revolutionary Wars, largely drafted from the formerly-hostile French Irish Brigade by a series of rare changes in British and French policy. Context The success of the Iri ...
, a British Army unit *
Franco-Irish Ambulance Brigade The Franco-Irish Ambulance Brigade (known in French as the ''Ambulance Irlandais'') was a volunteer medical corps sent from Ireland to assist the French Army in the 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War. At the time Ireland was part of the United Kingdo ...
(1870) * Tyneside Irish Brigade, World War I British Army brigade of Irish immigrants in Newcastle upon Tyne *
30th Missouri Infantry Regiment The 30th Missouri Infantry Regiment, also known as the Shamrock Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was a sister unit to the 7th Missouri Infantry Regiment (the "Irish Seventh") an ...
, a Confederate brigade also known as Missouri Irish Brigade and Kelly's Irish Bridgade * A voluntary force under Myles O'Reilly that defended Rome in the Second Italian War of Independence; see


Other

* The Irish Brigade (band), an Irish punk rock group * Independent Irish Party MPs in the House of Commons (1882–1914), were often described by opponents and supporters as the Irish Brigade


See also

* North Irish Brigade, Infantry Depot M at Omagh * Irish commandos, fought with the Boers during the Second Boer War (1899–1902) * Irish Guards, a Foot Guards regiment of the British Army * Irish Legion, raised by Napoleonic France in 1803-15 * Irish regiment, lists all such regiments in non-Irish armed forces * London Irish Rifles Irish Regiment in the British Army * Liverpool Irish Irish Regiment in the British Army {{mil-unit-dis