page_title: Irish military diaspora
section_title: Latin America
hierarchical_section_title: Irish military diaspora / Latin America
caption_attribution_description: Anonymous portrait. c.1835 of Daniel Florencio O'Leary
context_page_description: The Irish military diaspora refers to the many people of either Irish birth or extraction who have served in overseas military forces, regardless of rank, duration of service, or success.
  Many overseas military units were primarily made up of Irishmen and had the word 'Irish', an Irish place name or an Irish person in the unit's name. 'Irish' named military units took part in numerous conflicts throughout world history. The first military unit of this kind was in the Spanish Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch. A notable example is that of Owen Roe O'Neill.
caption: Daniel Florence O'Leary
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