Ireland and Russia: Irish Soldiers and Crown Jewels
Connections between Ireland and Russia date back to the time of Irish Brigades and regiments in Europe. After the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649, Irish fighting men left in their thousands and Irish regiments became a feature of the armies of Spain and France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They became integrated in their countries of adoption and many left their mark at the highest levels of military, political and civil institutions in Europe and well beyond….
