The village of Oberglauheim was packed with 14 battalions commanded by the Marquis de Blainville ( including the effective Irish Brigade known as the ' Wild Geese ').

Casement had gone there from the United States the previous year with the support of Clan na Gael leader John Devoy, and after discussions with the German Ambassador in Washington, Count von Bernstorff, to try to recruit an " Irish Brigade " from among Irish prisoners of war and secure German support for Irish independence.

Furthermore, 63 members of Parliament elected in 1852, were members of the " Irish Brigade ," who voted with the Peelites and the Whigs for the repeal of the Corn Laws because they sought an end the Great Irish Famine by means of cheaper wheat and bread prices for the poor and middle classes in Ireland.

Currently, however, neither the Free Traders and the Irish Brigade had disagreements with the Whigs that prevented them from joining with the Whigs form a government.

When in December of 1852, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer submitted his budget to Parliament on behalf of the minority government, the Peelites, the Free Traders and the Irish Brigade were all alienated by the proposed budget.

Alexander was then in February 1928 promoted to colonel ( backdated to 14 May 1926 ) and was the next month appointed Officer Commanding the Irish Guards Regimental District and 140th ( 4th London ) Infantry Brigade in the Territorial Army a post he held until January 1930, when he again returned to study, attending the Imperial Defence College for one year.

* Irish Brigade ( French ) formed from the Irish army after the flight of the Wild Geese in 1691.

* Tyneside Irish Brigade, World War I brigade serving in the British army at the Somme.

The fear was increased when, on the very day the new national parliament was meeting, 21 January 1919, members of the IRA Third Tipperary Brigade led by Seán Treacy and Dan Breen seized a quantity of gelignite and two Royal Irish Constabulary constables ( James McDonnell and Patrick O ' Connell ) were shot dead in the process.

Wall plaque marking the site in 1919, where the Active Service Unit of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Republican Army was founded.

A month later, on 18 February, Liam Forde, O / C of the IRA Mid-Limerick Brigade, issued a proclamation stating that: " We no longer recognise the authority of the present head of the army, and renew our allegiance to the existing Irish Republic ".

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* April 27 – WWI – Battle of Hulluch: The 47th Brigade, 16th Irish Division is decimated in one of the most heavily concentrated German gas attacks of the war.

Here another tragic advance was made by the Tyneside Irish Brigade of the 34th Division, which started nearly one mile from the German front line, in full view of German machine-guns.

The Irish Brigade was wiped out before it reached the front trench line.

Directly after the feud in October 1987, the INLA received more damaging publicity when Dessie O ' Hare, an erstwhile INLA volunteer set up his own group called the ' Irish Revolutionary Brigade ' and kidnapped a Dublin dentist named John O ' Grady.

The popular Irish cabaret band had been returning from a performance in Banbridge in the early hours of 31 July 1975 when they were ambushed at Buskhill, County Down by armed men from the UVF's Mid-Ulster Brigade at a bogus military checkpoint.

Other units were German and one Irish Brigade ( the " Wild Geese ") had originally been made up of Irish volunteers.

The Mid-Ulster Brigade was also responsible for the Miami Showband ambush, in which three members of the popular Irish cabaret band The Miami Showband were shot dead at a bogus military vehicle checkpoint outside Newry by gunmen dressed in British Army uniforms.

In 2006, Enya made it to the number three spot in the ranks of wealthy Irish entertainers with an estimated fortune of € 109 million ( i. e., £ 75 million or US $ 165 million ), and number 95 in the Sunday Times Rich List 2006 of the 250 Wealthiest Irish People.

The scene cost US $ 12 million and involved up to 1, 500 extras, some of whom were members of the Irish Reserve Defence Forces.

Whistles are a prevalent starting instrument in English traditional music, Scottish traditional music and Irish traditional music, since they are often cheap ( under US $ 10 ), relatively easy to start with ( no tricky embouchure such as found with the flute ), and the fingerings are nearly identical to those on the traditional six holed flute ( Irish flute, baroque flute ).

29. 0 % were of German, 16. 7 % US or American, 12. 8 % Irish, 10. 7 % English and 5. 3 % Italian ancestry according to Census 2000.

Louth Contemporary Music Society invited the US composer Terry Riley to perform in Drogheda in 2007, Arvo Pärt's first Irish commission and visit to the country was in Drogheda in February 2008, Michael Nyman performed in Drogheda in May 2008, John Tavener's Temenos festival was held in October 2008 and the Russian composer Alexander Knaifel was the focus of a portrait concert as part of the Drogheda Arts festival on 1 May 2009.

* Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish rebel, US Civil War Brigadier General, Acting Governor of the Territory of Montana

All regularly released singles and their chart peak position in U. S. Billboard Hot 100 ( US 100 ), U. S. Top 40 Mainstream ( US Main ), UK Singles Chart ( UK ), Canadian Singles Chart ( CAN ), Australian Singles Chart ( AUS ), New Zealand Top 40 ( NZ ), Irish Top 50 ( IRE ) and in the Belgian UltraTop 50 ( BEL ).

This Irish showband, with Morrison playing saxophone, guitar and harp, in addition to back-up duty on bass and drums, toured steamy clubs and US Army bases in Scotland, England, and Germany, often playing five sets a night.

His father's family was Irish and in about 1850, following the Great Irish Famine, had emigrated to the US, first to Massachusetts and later to California.

Visitors to Omagh have included Queen Elizabeth II, Charles, Prince of Wales, former US president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, Irish president Mary McAleese, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Center is the home to the only remaining Irish castle style courthouse in the US, built in 1885, by J. J. E.

A " Dragons '" armchair by Irish furniture designer Eileen Gray sold for 21. 9 million euros ( US $ 28 million ), setting an auction record for a piece of 20th century decorative art.

They never topped the British charts again, but had two US Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s with " Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter " ( originally sung by Tom Courtenay in a 1963 British TV play ) and " I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am " ( a British music hall song by Harry Champion dating from 1910, which Peter Noone's Irish grandfather had been in the habit of singing when Noone was young ).

In 1990, the US-Ireland bilateral agreement was changed to allow Irish airlines to serve Los Angeles, and additional US airlines to serve Dublin via Shannon.

For passenger service, it reduced the stopover requirement and allowed Irish airlines to serve three additional US destinations.

In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the Irish government offered the use of Shannon to the US government.

On 7 October, it was revealed that Scallon had dual US and Irish citizenship, but she denied hiding this from the public, saying that her US citizenship, which involved her taking an oath renouncing allegiance to Ireland, was not an issue then or now and she had no reason to hide it.

* Vanishing Kingdoms-The Irish Chiefs and Their Families, by Walter J. P. Curley ( former US Ambassador to Ireland ), with foreword by Charles Lysaght, published by The Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2004.

Examples include Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Irish Free State and the Union of South Africa, though these parliaments themselves have often evolved or were reformed from their British model: the Australian Senate, for instance, more closely reflects the US Senate than the British House of Lords ; whereas there is no upper house in New Zealand.

As a 22-year-old platoon commander in the 1st Battalion Irish Guards, he served in the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) in 1914.

* Irish military diaspora, notable individuals, Irish by birth or extraction, who served in non-Irish military forces.

* Irish regiments, many Irish regiments served in non-Irish military forces and took part in several conflicts of world history.

It was part of the duty of the medieval Irish bards, or court poets, to record the history of the family and the genealogy of the king they served.

Robinson initially served in the Irish upper house as an independent senator, but in the mid 1970s she joined the Labour Party.

The ninety-two room building formerly served as the ' out-of-season ' residence of the Irish Lord Lieutenant and the residence of two of the three Irish Governors-General: Tim Healy and James McNeill.

A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms.

Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years.

Later he claimed to have served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers.

* Other Irish republican paramilitary organizations have served and continue to serve as vigilantes.

The chief officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary was its Inspector-General ( the last of whom, Sir Thomas J. Smith served from 11 March 1920 until partition in 1922 ).

He served as the first President of the Executive Council ( prime minister ) of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1932.

Red sauce is used in Welsh English, Scottish English, Irish English and some parts of England, such as the Black Country, and in South London, often contrasting with brown sauce with which it is often served.

* Douglas Hyde ( 1860 – 1949 )-an Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945.

The principal Irish Rail intercity train station in the county is Kildare, however, Newbridge, Sallins and Hazelhatch are also served by a Dublin commuter train service called the Arrow.

Also the Irish Brigade served in France and may have brought the term with them.

The City of Shamrock is served by the Shamrock Independent School District and home to the Shamrock High School Irish.

Although up to a thousand Irish soldiers who had served in Europe returned during the war, bringing with them experience of siege warfare from the Thirty Years ' War in Europe, it was the arrival of Oliver Cromwell's train of siege guns in 1649 that transformed the conflict, and the fate of local castles.

Jim Duffy ( born 12 April 1966 ) is an Irish historian, political commentator, and served as a policy advisor to then Irish leader of the Opposition, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny prior to the 2011 general election.