Talk:Irish military diaspora

message: Frank Ryan & Kit Conway fought for the republic; Eoin O'Duffy fought for the nationalists.
Irishmen north & south fought in World War I ...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kfor (talk • contribs) 23:32, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Spanish Civil War

message: I can't find any note of this man being Irish. Joke entry? Basmandude 12:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just deleted de Gaulle. There is absolutely no assertion that de Gaulle ever had any Irish heritage. Some of the other "Irish connections" are also a little tenuous. Apart from his name, neither this nor the Jeremiah O'Brien article provide any supporting refs for Irish lineage. (I'm not saying he wasn't Irish, but where's the refs). In a similar vein, Patrice de Mac-Mahon's name was about the only remaining Irish link - I appreciate that the intro provides for no limits/bounds on the definition of "Irish" or "diaspora", but at the point of his induction into the army, he would have been 5th or 6th generation French/Irish. (When does one stop counting?) Anyway, long story short, this article has been tagged as "reference-less" for several years, and is of limited value without supporting assertions. It may be worthwhile merging and redirecting the content from Irish regiment into this article, and creating "regiments" and "individuals" subsections - with supporting refs. That way we create one consolidated article from two (weak) list articles. Thoughts? Guliolopez (talk) 13:54, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Rather distant but this article explains the link back to his McCartan ancestors who were living in France in the 1800s. Not less Irish than Obama.86.42.210.217 (talk) 12:24, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Charles de Gaul

message: On second thought, should we do it the other way around? No other country has an article on military diaspora as far as I can tell and the Irish regiment article rates higher on the importance scale. Maybe this should be the redirect. There are only 3 links to this article after all and I can delete them as easily as I made them. --Danfly (talk) 14:26, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: yes, agreed, redirect (or merge) this orphan article to Irish regiment (please move to regiments) which is widely linked and would be first searched for. Osioni (talk) 20:55, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger

message: Removed Carton De Wiat, a member of the Belgian military diaspora. Howvere, if this section is going to be here, surely it should contain people who regarded themselves as citizens of the Irish Free State or Irish Republic who served in the British armed forces. Of those listed, Wellington became Prime Minister of the U.K., and Lawrence and Montgomery both regarded themselves as British.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roger Allen (talk • contribs) 20:40, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Then the other lists would be restricted to citizens of the Irish Free State or Irish Republic who served in the French, American, Austrian etc. forces, which would make the page less historically interesting. Irish means much more than the State, and surely Arthur Dillon (1670–1733) was Irish?86.42.205.182 (talk) 10:06, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Noted recent removals of Dubliners Alan Cunningham and Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope by IP 194.83.249.5 - looks like vandalism? Or WP:IDONTLIKETHEM? why?86.42.207.207 (talk) 19:23, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  British section 

message: There was a proposition on the page Talk:Irish military diaspora that these two articles be merged. What does everyone here think? --Danfly (talk) 20:33, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger

message: Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein wasn't Irish-born but he had often visited Moville in County Donegal where his family were landowners at Newpark. He qualifies as Anglo-Irish.86.42.210.217 (talk) 12:24, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: FM Montgomery

message: He appears twice? Anyone mind if I remove one mention?PatrickGuinness (talk) 10:53, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Daniel Florence O'Leary]]

message: I was thinking of adding a section and or creating a category which would compile together the military engagement to which Irish military diaspora took a part in, particularly those on mainland Europe, starting with the Austrian, French and Spanish brigades, and branching out to Italy, Poland and Russia. 
Anyone interested, please contact me via my talk page. 
Uamaol (talk) 01:27, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Battles / Wars 

message: The lists could get very big with this. For example the father of admiral Sir Charles Madden, 1st Baronet came from Kells in Kilkenny; the mother of general Arthur Currie (né Curry) was born in Ireland.PatrickGuinness (talk) 11:22, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Sons of Irish-born people

message: Merging of the Bourke's and O'Lally's regiments, it became the Prince of Asturia's Regiment, usually known as Wauchop's (after his colonel) and Connacia (Connaught?).In 1718 took up the title of Ireland Regiment. In Spanish: Regimiento de Bourke,R.de O'Lally, R. del Príncipe de Asturias y R. de Irlanda.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.139.118.211 (talk) 11:11, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: "http://www.defensa.gob.es/ceseden/Galerias/destacados/publicaciones/CuadernosHistoria/ficheros/01_PRESENCIA_IRLANDESA_EN_LA_MILICIA_ESPANOLA.pdf"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.139.118.211 (talk) 11:18, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spain: Wauchop's Regiment=Ireland Regiment 

message: In 1736 transferred into the service of Naples and Sicily (at the time a satellite kingdom of Spain) as Regimento del Ré (King's Regiment)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.139.118.211 (talk) 11:13, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spain: Limerick Regiment 

message: Short-lived.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.139.118.211 (talk) 11:14, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spain 1719: Momonia (Munster?) Regiment 

message: In 1715 O'Mahony's became Edinburgh Dragoons (Dragones de Edimburgo) and Crofton's became Dublin (Dragones de Dublín). FitzHarris's was disbanded in 1706.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.139.118.211 (talk) 11:30, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: by the 1740s the Dublin Dragoons had been disbanded or merged. Same for the Edinburgh Dragoons by the 1760s.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.139.118.211 (talk) 11:39, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spain: O'Mahony's, Crofton's and FitzHarris's Dragoons (c.1702)