Irish Brigade

Irish Brigade may refer to:

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), pro-Union Civil War brigade of Irish immigrants
• Irish Brigade (World War I), 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), a British Army unit
• Franco-Irish Ambulance Brigade (1870)
• Tyneside Irish Brigade, World War I British Army brigade of Irish immigrants in Newcastle upon Tyne
• 30th Missouri Infantry Regiment, 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 Irish military diaspora § Papal States

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