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	Irish Brigade (US) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Irish Brigade was an infantry brigade that served in the American Civil War, consisting predominantly of Irish immigrants.
		In March 1862 the brigade, composed of the 63rd, 69th, and 88th New York regiments, was assigned to Major General Edwin V. Sumner's division in the Army of the Potomac as the 2nd Brigade and shipped to the Virginia Peninsula.
		In the Battle of Gettysburg, the brigade distinguished itself in the Wheatfield under the command of Col. Kelly as the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division (Brigadier General John C. Caldwell) of the II Corps (Major General Winfield S. Hancock).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_Brigade_(US) (1207 words)

	Irish Immigration
		Newfoundland Irish - Newfoundland Irish (Irish: Gaeilge Talamh an Ãisc) is a dialect of the Irish language specific to the island of Newfoundland and widely spoken until the mid-20th century.
		Irish Brigade (US) - The Irish Brigade was an infantry brigade that served in the American Civil War, consisting predominantly of Irish immigrants.
		Irish Culture - Irish Culture Culture of Ireland - The culture of the people living on the island of Ireland is far from monolithic.
	www.windspiritflutes.com /irishimmigration.html (1238 words)

	Preview of Hibernia in "Gods and Generals" -- From WGT
		AST Press, presenting "Campaigning With the Irish Brigade: John Ryan, 28th Massachusetts," an extraordinary look into the life of an enlisted man in one of the hardest-fighting regiments in the Union Army.
		The actual charge and martyrdom of the Irish Brigade, cut down in part by their former countrymen in the ranks of the 24th Georgia Infantry and other Southern units positioned behind the famous stone wall at Marye's Heights, is portrayed in the film.
		With the exception of that brief appearance of General Meagher, the only Irish Brigade soldier given much in the way of individual attention is Lieutenant Colonel St. Clair Mulholland of the 116th Pennsylvania (portrayed by actor Tim O'Hare), and his role is a minor one.
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/gngirish.html (1375 words)

	IrishWar.htm
		The Irish Brigade was specifically created to preserve this special identity and to advertise the important contributions to the Union cause that Irish Catholics made.
		That there was never anything intrinsic about Irish support for the Northern cause is evident from the fact that those who settled in the Southern states had no trouble accepting the logic of that section on the war.
		They thrilled to the exploits of Irish soldiers in the war, believing that the reputation of all Irishmen benefited from the courage demonstrated by such units as the Irish Brigade.
	www.28thmass.org /IrishWar/IrishWar.htm (1761 words)

	Irish Brigade : CafePress.com
		But in 1861 the Irish answered Lincoln's call in the hundreds of thousands and earned the respect of the nation with their sweat and blood.
		Most famous of all Irish units of the Union army was the renowned "Irish Brigade", who traced their inspiration back to the legendary Irish Brigade in the service of France.
		The Brigadeâs heroic actions at places like the "Bloody Lane" at Antietam in September 1862 and "Marye's Heights" at Fredericksburg in December of the same year would put to rest forever any doubt of the commitment of Irish immigrants to their adopted home.
	www.cafepress.com /irishbrigade (321 words)

	Irish Brigade Store - Non-Print Products
		Sons of Erin - A CD of Irish songs, ballads & music of the American Civil War from Derek Warfield, the singer and leader of the Legendary Wolfe Tones.
		The Irish Brigade in the American Civil War - A captivating video featuring a most resplendent band of soldiers in The War Between the States.
		Irish Legion Recruiting Poster - Mounted on a handsome Walnut plaque, secured by brass screws and safeguarded by plexiglass with brass plate engraved "All for the Union, May 1862".
	www.irishbrigadestore.com /other_irish_brigade_products.html (276 words)

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		As Civil War Re-enactors, the Missouri Irish Brigade, attempts to recreate the life and times of the common western theater soldier, and the 19th century, company level organization that they would have been a part of.
		The Missouri Irish Brigade, was organized in the fall of 1995, and since that time, has seen action at many events.
		As an organization, the Missouri Irish Brigade is structured around 19th Century military regulations, and not a "Club" format.
	www.geocities.com /missouriirishbrigade (704 words)

	The Wild Geese Today Archives
		For most of the Irish, who, typically enough, volunteered in large numbers for both armies, it was to be a baptism of fire.
		Irish soldiers played an immense part in the epic fighting that changed the course of American history.
		THOMAS Francis Meagher as an Irish nationalist, captain in the 69th New York State Militia at 1st Manassas, Civil War general, and first commander of the famous Irish Brigade.
	www.thewildgeese.com /iba (920 words)

	Irish Echo Online - News
		The story of the Irish soldier in the American armed forces is a sprawling epic reaching back to the Revolutionary War, stretching across a continent and beyond the oceans.
		The birth of the Irish Brigade was in large part due to the heroism of the 69th earlier that year at Bull Run when its members had engaged in hand-to-hand fighting with advancing Confederate troops on a day when all too many Union soldiers simply ran.
		Irish Wolfhounds to the fore, the 69th is the traditional leader of the parade up Fifth Avenue.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=16425 (1097 words)

	Irish Echo Online - Arts
		The Irish Brigade as a whole suffered 540 casualties (including 113 killed); the 69th sustained 194 casualties (61 percent).
		Three months later, on December 13, 1862, the 69th and the Irish Brigade assaulted Confederate entrenchments along a ridge known as Marye's Heights, in Fredericksburg, VA. Fourteen waves of attackers were sent across open fields against the fortified Confederate position.
		The Irish Brigade was in the third wave, and achieved international fame with the tenacity of their attack.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=17295 (1245 words)

	Irish Brigade Gift Shop Books Page
		The Union's Irish Brigade was arguably the Civil War's most famous fighting outfit.
		The motto "Remember Fontenoy" is derived from the unstoppable bayonet charge, in 1775, by a French army brigade of Irish exiles against the British.
		One of those Federal brigades was the depleted and famed Irish Brigade, commanded by Col. Patrick Kelly.
	www.irishbrigadegiftshop.com /books.html (803 words)

	The Wild Geese Today - Irish Brigade of France : CafePress.com
		That was the cry Gen. Meagher used in the American Civil War, inspiring America's Irish Brigade by invoking the greatest victory of the Irish Brigade of France.
		For 100 years Irishmen were smuggled from Ireland, where their rights had been stripped by foreign invaders, to France, to fill the ranks of the famous Irish Brigade.
		Wear them with pride, knowing you have helped us to keep alive the memory of The Irish Brigade of France, the pride of Ireland through the dark years of the Penal laws.
	www.cafepress.com /irishbrigade_fr (447 words)

	Irish Anti-Conscription Crisis - Wikisource
		If you do set up an Irish Legislature, elected by Irish people, deriving its authority from the Irish voters, then the Irish authority should have the right to raise Irish regiments, to put them under Irish officers, and, when they are sent to the front, put them under Irish command.
		A similar pledge was given in the case of Carson’s army, and it was observed; but it was not observed in the case of the Irish Brigade.
		Although he was not able to stand up to be shot, although he was wounded, if he had been a soldier serving in any other part of the world he would have received the honour due to a soldier, but he was brutally butchered, maimed and mangled.
	en.wikisource.org /wiki/Irish_Anti-Conscription_Crisis (2575 words)

	Irish Brigade Gift Shop Music Page
		The focus is on the Irish songs, ballads and music and lyrical legacy of colonial rule in Ireland.
		From the Army of the Potomac's famous Irish Brigade to Lee's legendary Louisiana Tigers, the Irish would add their own special chapter to the saga of the Civil War's greatest battle.
		The new immigrant Irish were fierce and heroic warriors during the American Civil War; they fought not only for their adopted land, but to prepare for the anticipated military struggle for Ireland's freedom.
	www.irishbrigadegiftshop.com /music.html (373 words)

	155th New York Volunteer Infantry Reenactment Regiment Home Page
		Learn about an Irish regiment that was also a typical unit in the Union Army of the American Civil War.
		Almost all of the men of the 155th were Irish; many of them had only come to America since the time of the Famine of 1846-47.
		The 155th was raised as part of Michael Corcoran's "Irish Legion," a brigade containing the 155th, 164th (zouave), 170th, 175th, and 182nd New York Volunteers.
	www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~dbertuca/155.html (642 words)

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		On the reverse side are a cloud and sunburst and the slogan in Irish "Faj an Bealac", meaning "Clear the Way".
		The colors were saved by a flag preservation project of the State of Missouri, and are currently in the State Capitol Museum in Jefferson City.
		The Newspaper article to the right, was found in the "Boston Pilot", an Irish Newspaper that existed in Boston Mass.
	www.geocities.com /missouriirishbrigade_flags/index.html (291 words)

	The Irish Soldiers in WWI - World Cultures European
		For the Confederacy, the majority of the Irish appear to have enlisted in the 17th South Carolina and the 6th Louisiana.
		On July 2, 1888, one of the most distinctive memorials on the Gettysburg battlefield was dedicated on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Irish Brigade fight in the Wheatfield.
		The cross bears the trefoil corps badge of the Second Corps, in which the brigade served, as well as four medallions containing the numeric designations of the three NY regiments, and the seal of the State of New York.
	www.irishcultureandcustoms.com /ACalend/VetsCivilWar.html (1669 words)

	Irish Brigade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Irish Brigade (US) served on the Union side in the American Civil War in the 1860s
		Tyneside Irish Brigade, World War I brigade serving on the British side at the Somme.
		The aborted attempt to recruit and train Irish POW's for use in Abwehr missions during World War II suggested by Seán Russell and attempted at Stalag XX A (301) also referred to as "Friesack Camp".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_Brigade (281 words)

	Dorchester Reporter, Dorchester MA USA
		One of the early manifestations of the local Irish love for the Ould Sod's patron saint was the Shamrock Society, a social club that gathered on March 17 to defiantly toast the saint and "sing the old songs," the revelers' voices pealing from Dooley's, the Mansion House, and Jameson's.
		All along the route, hordes of spectators lined the pavement, and Irish homes and businesses were emblazoned with colorful images of St. Patrick and draped with sheets or banners that were adorned with such traditional slogans as Erin Go Bragh and Cead Mile Failte.
		In their biggest outpouring of pride to date, Boston's Irish reveled in their heritage, a legacy with one foot planted firmly in America, the other in their ancestral counties.
	www.dotnews.com /irishonthemarch.html (1436 words)

	Richard J. Jensen - "No Irish Need Apply": A Myth of Victimization - Journal of Social History 36:2
		The Irish community used the allegation of job discrimination on the part of the Other to reinforce political solidarity among (male) voters, which in any case was very high indeed—probably he highest for any political group in American history before the 1960s.
		Given the dominance of Irish women among maids in the large cities, and the constant turnover of servants, we can estimate that the large majority (perhaps 80 or 90 percent) of middle class families, regardless of their own ethnic or religious affiliations, routinely hired Irish women.
		However sources, such as melodramas with numerous Irish characters, had numerous references, and each was counted as a separate "unit-perception." In all he found 392 different descriptive adjectives, and coded them according to a scheme developed by a psychologist for the language in use a century later.
	tigger.uic.edu /~rjensen/no-irish.htm (12407 words)

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		One of the most profound features of the Irish American story is the way that the love of Irish culture and heritage has been passed from one generation to the next.
		The 69th was formed in 1851 by Irish immigrants, who were fighting to preserve the unity of their adopted homeland.
		The Irish of the Civil War and the history of the 69th Brigade, can never cease to be recalled and recounted.
	www.irishdev.com /NewsArticle.aspx?id=3608 (2148 words)

	The Irish Brigade
		The Irish are a military people—strong, nimble, and hardy, fond of adventure, irascible, brotherly, and generous—they have all the qualities that tempt men to war and make them good soldiers.
		The materials for the history of the Irish Brigade are fast accumulating.
		The value of the work is vastly augmented by the appendix, which is a memoir of the Brigade, written in French, in 1749, and including the War Office here orders, and all the changes in organisation, numbers, and pay of the Brigade to that date.
	www.ucc.ie /celt/online/E800002-029/text001.html (1048 words)

	Irish-Americans In The Civil War
		In the Federal army there was the fabled Meagher's Irish brigade, led by the flamboyant Thomas Meagher; they went into battle with an emerald green flag with a large golden harp in its center, celebrating their heritage even in the midst of death.
		The Irish were chiefly distrusted because they were Catholic, and there was much opposition in the United States to the Church of Rome.
		Many of the rioters were frustrated Irish laborers who could not get jobs, and their targets were draft officials, as well as free fls living in the North, who seemed able to get jobs that the Irish were denied.
	www.civilwarhome.com /irish.htm (532 words)

	"Fighting 69th" New York-- The Irish Brigade
		At the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, when President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to join the Union Army, one of the first to answer the call was the 69th New York State Militia Regiment.
		At a huge public meeting on August 29th 1861 in Jones' Wood, on the Upper East Side of New York, he initiated a recruiting drive for what was to be the First Regiment of the Irish Brigade, the 69th New York Volunteer Infantry.
		In November the Irish Brigade departed for Washington and the war.The Brigade, with the 69th New York in the lead, fought in all the major battles of the war, including Yorktown, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania and Petersburg and they were present at Appomattox Court House when Lee and his army surrendered in April
	www.69thnyvi.homestead.com (579 words)

	Irish Brigade Store - Celebrating the Gallantry and Courage
		"We have given too many Irish regiments and brigades to the American service to let their history sink into obscurity.
		We've been selling Irish Brigade related prints, t-shirts, videos, and more for over seven years.
		We're proud to since Neil's family tree stems from Sergeant O'Neil, a spirited teenager, who served with the Irish Brigade from 1861 to 1864.
	www.irishbrigadestore.com (114 words)

	David Kincaid, The Irish-American's Song
		David Kincaid's highly acclaimed first album, "The Irish Volunteer," received such critical accolades as “one of the most emotionally credible Civil War recordings ever made, as well as a superb, irresistibly melodic Irish folk recording" (Scott Alarik-The Boston Globe), and "Stirring stuff.” (Dick Hogan-The Irish Times).
		From sound of the fretless, gut-string banjo, period parlor guitar, uilleann pipes, fiddle and button accordion, to the nineteenth century four-part vocal harmony arrangements and piano, every effort was made to give this recording the authentic feel and sound of the Civil War era.
		Whether you're new to David Kincaid's music, or an old fan, this new collection is sure to conjure up the blood and thunder of those brave Irish heroes -North and South- capturing the imagination of fans of both historic and Irish music alike.
	www.hauntedfieldmusic.com /ias.html (937 words)

	Historical Flags-Irish Brigade Flags
		The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 69th Irish regimental flags.
		This design represents the "first" set presented to the volunteers by a committee of Irish ladies.
		" Who never retreated from the clash of spears" The motto is thought to have been suggested by the Irish scholar John O'Mahoney.
	www.anyflag.com /history/irish.htm (110 words)

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