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>The leading figures of the time were among its members – Robespierre, Lafayette, Condorcet, Danton, Abbé Gregoire and others. The names of its Irish members are given in the records as ‘Boyle, Okard and O’Konnor.”
>(Reprinted from Ireland and Irishmen in the French Revolution, London, 1932)
Many Latin American countries had military men of Irish ancestrality as founding fathers. Daniel Florence O'Leary in Venezuela, Juan Mackenna and Bernardo O'Higgins in Chile, Peter Campbell in Uruguay, John Thomond O'Brien and William Brown in Argentina, Francisco Burdett O'Connor in Bolivia, James Rooke in Colombia. France had a president and Spain a PM descended from Irish military families (Patrice MacMahon and Leopoldo O'Donnell). The point in what I'm saying is all of Ireland's military energy was devoted either to fighting for foreign Catholic armies abroad, rebelling at home (without access to actual military resources), fighting as footsoldiers for the British or US armies. The Irish in fact have an extremely eminent history of service in foreign armies. Peter Lacy was one of the most famous Russian generals before Suvorov. The Irish Brigade in French service played a crucial role in winning the battle of Fontenoy.
>The leading figures of the time were among its members – Robespierre, Lafayette, Condorcet, Danton, Abbé Gregoire and others. The names of its Irish members are given in the records as ‘Boyle, Okard and O’Konnor.”
>(Reprinted from Ireland and Irishmen in the French Revolution, London, 1932)
Many Latin American countries had military men of Irish ancestrality as founding fathers. Daniel Florence O'Leary in Venezuela, Juan Mackenna and Bernardo O'Higgins in Chile, Peter Campbell in Uruguay, John Thomond O'Brien and William Brown in Argentina, Francisco Burdett O'Connor in Bolivia, James Rooke in Colombia. France had a president and Spain a PM descended from Irish military families (Patrice MacMahon and Leopoldo O'Donnell). The point in what I'm saying is all of Ireland's military energy was devoted either to fighting for foreign Catholic armies abroad, rebelling at home (without access to actual military resources), fighting as footsoldiers for the British or US armies. The Irish in fact have an extremely eminent history of service in foreign armies. Peter Lacy was one of the most famous Russian generals before Suvorov. The Irish Brigade in French service played a crucial role in winning the battle of Fontenoy.
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