I really do think that some of the people before posting comments should become familiar with the following.The United kingdom means England Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland sometimes called the six counties otherwise the rest of Ireland is Eire or the Irish Republic, but whether it is the north or south of Ireland it is collectively the Island of Ireland .Chieftan
my son is english and is a sgt in the regiment....most of his mates are from liverpool and birmingham, with some irish guys too.....dont think it matters where u come from ...
@manormaid They reckon about half are from Ireland -North & South - but their main recruiting area is Liverpool which has been virtually an Irish colony for 100+ years. The Lord Mayor of Dublin once described Liverpool as "Dublin's overspill" meaning new suburb because until 20 years ago it was the main ferry port for Ireland.
Sadly at least one Dublin boy was killed in Iraq and returned home for burial.
@manormaid My family were Galway. I served in the Irish Guards with people from all over Ireland, North and South, Catholic and Protestant. NO RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL PROBLEMS. Being tolerant was the thing - God we even allowed Englishmen in the Regiment!! lol What counted was the capbadge you wore, not where you came from.
The Druid's Government has been govern under the Brehon Laws under the Pagan High Kingsfor over 2140 years before the birth of Christ.
Dear Born Again Pagan Celts for the Hill of Tara, lets celebrate a REVERSE PARADOX on MAEWYN SUCCAT Day. On March 17th lets RENAME Saint Patrick Day as CELTIC PAGAN LIBERATION DAY! With creative advertising we should be able to PROMOTE a REVERSE PARADOX by saying, "Wear all GREEN if you are Proud to be a BORN AGAIN PAGAN CELT!"
thats the real irish army there the irish fought for hundreds of years for the crown and still do today the irish army is only been around 90 odd years and has done nothing the irish guards make me proud to be irish
To all the stupid people that write hate posts on every video of the Irish Guards. Stop living in the past. The Irish Guards have been refered to as "the most Irish regiment in the British army". This reference is for good reason. They are Irish,period.Many great and true Irishmen served and will continue to serve in this great regiment. Up The Micks!!
@Daithipiper ur wastin ur breath mate. the people who post shit are the same people that crop up on so many videos of the british forces. bitter sad little people that really need to get some balls and try sayin some of the things they say on here to a soldier to his/her face.they are pathetic. i love bein an irish guard and some little bigot wont change that. quis separabit!
@Daithipiper well probobly not the most irish .. don't forget about the Royal Irish they're fairly irish to ... hence the name Royal Irish .. any way i completely agree with you people should stop living in the past i know it's hard for some people but we need to get over it.
Having looked through the posts on here I'm almost ashamed to be Irish. I served in the British Army (in the Irish Guards) after my family had to leave Ireland because my father lost his job and was blocked from any other decent work by the policies of a cowardly Spanish-American bastard! My da served in WW2, and together with my 2 brothers I followed him. I am, and always will be proud of my service. It makes me no less Irish and we do tend to be good at fighting for other people anyway
Just outta curiosity - can a citizen of the United States with Irish heritage who has parents that were born/raised in Belfast join the Irish Guards, or the Royal Irish Regiment?
@philipem01 I'm born and raised in Sweden with a Swedish passport but my grandfather was a irishman, born in Dublin does that mean that i'm allowed to join? I'm to old now but it would be interesting to know.
@FMichael1970 Hang on I just reread this. Depending on when your parents were were born you may already BE an irish citizen and a british citizen as well. Email me for details, give your parents and your own place and year of birth...
the irish guards are one of the greatest regiments in the british army....sworn along with the other guard regiments (scots,colstream & welsh)...ffs they stand outside buck house...memebers of the guards are recognised by by their peers...and if its good enough for them....
people keep sating "Irish pretending to be British" here alot...well most of them are from Northen Ireland so that makes them British...so hence they are not "dressing up"
No they arent. NI is in the UK not Britain. To be British you have to live or have been born in either England, Scotland or Wales. Anyone in Ireland even if they are in the North is Irish. Which is why if you look at a UK passport it will say "the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland". Altho technically everyone in Ireland is Irish, regardless of belief, culturally unionists will claim to be British.
yeah i will say im a little confused to see somemany Irishmen dressing up and pretending to be brits. Given I think the current queen of england is cool, its just wrong man. After everything Britains done to the world, youre going to kiss their ass?
thinking77 - probably no more confusing than it is for the rest of the world to see native americans being loyal to the U.S. after the way they've been treated. At least Britain has given most of Ireland back - the native americans have no chance of getting their country back lol. oh and btw, if you ever go to northern ireland you'll find that the majority protestants don't think they're "pretending" to be Brits - as far as they're concerned they ARE Brits.
but we are still irish regiment with many strong irish tradition do you know a lot about the micks do you id like you to challenge me on youre knowledge
i dont know a lot about the irish guards, but i can always look it up. I forgot what I wrote on here, but judging by the responses it was something biased and unresearched, so tell me more things about the irish and british guards i should look up.
SORRY DON'T READ THIS IF U R SCARED EASILY I READ IT AND HAD NO WARNING AND I DON'T WANT IT TO HAPPEN TO ME
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Im from Belfast dickhead and I've served the queen, most of the guards are from the republic and they do the same. Go figure that out you prat. "so called soldiers", you'd never be man enough to lick their boots, you sad spastic.
My father was in 24 Guards Armoured Brigade in 1942 . Hitler was on the doorstep . The Irish Gurds were ready . He cancelled the appointment . God bless the Micks !!!!!!!
The bit about me not being fit to call myself Irish is weird given that I won an award for a performance in an Irish language play a few months back, but apparently that doesn't mean much to yourself. If you've read any of my postings (and if you didn't you shouldn't comment on them) you would have seen that what I've been saying is that just because an Irishman joins the British army doesn't mean he's a bad person. You can neither prove nor disprove this
Oh I'm with you on that, but there's got to be a balance between admiring guys like the one's you've mentioned and capitulating the ones who would hurt innocent people for sport. OK these guys are in probably every army in the world, but our nations do have a complex history, agreed?
We hope. See what I said to davyharto for a bit of healthy skepticism. My possible future sister-in-law is English-got not problem with them as a race. Their secret service, on the other hand, fills me with fear and loathing.
Like you, when I think of the British army, I think of Bloody Sunday and the Dublin/Monaghan bombings, but just because someone, anyone, puts on the uniform doesn't mean they are automatically evil.
U lot are About as irish as maggie thatcher,i cant understand why any self respecting true irishman would want to be on the bended knee to a so called royal family who by the way arnt even british,their german,how funny is that?
Why is it referred to as "the Irish Guards"? You could have just called them "Her Majesty's Bunch of Immigrant Paddies". There are still plenty of those lads with an Irish passport. And as for PATRICKEIRE, speaking as a Corkman and a nationalist, the day you say someone isn't Irish because he's in a British uniform is the day we shit on our nationhood.
no my friend he came to the regiment on the wk after the 18/8/03 his name was wayne golding small black lad from smiths wood was mates with gdsm james carson also from birmingham
Im an english lad from Birmingham who is proud to say i was a mick and god bless the REGIMENT.ANY 1 STILL IN DO THEY NO OF A GAURDSMAN GOLDING AND IF SO IS HE STILL SERVICE.
The first tune is the 4/4 march "Peter McKenzie Warren". Then 2 strathspeys, the first is "Sporting Jamie" and the second is "The Smith's a Gallant Fireman". Can't help on the reel though.
Well and good, but these guys are just as Irish as Gabriel Byrne. The day we start saying they're Brits just because they wear red is the day we lose any remaining sense of identity.
In the words of Kipling, "If he who broke you be minded to teach you, to his madrissa go." Sure, the Irish have had their share of rotten treatment by the Brits. But Ireland is part of the UK (well, some of it), and your soldiers have distinguished themselves in the service of what is now their country. So lighten up, Paddy.
probably the best most diciplined regiment in the world. and the most respected by anybody with half a brain unlike most of the people posting here. Irish guards arent irish. its just a name most of them are brittish or northern irish. which is still britian if u are all too thick to know that. i hate idiots. you have no idea how stupid you all sound. ignorant wankers.
But with still plenty of guys recruited from the Republic. Lieutenant Charlie Williams from Limerick, Sgt. Maj. Pearse Lally from Dublin, Sgt. Tony Charles from Cork, my home county. I've just mentioned at least 2 places you probably wouldn't be able to find on the map, you dozy fuck
My apologies on mixing up your citizenship and the best of look on the sailing front, but no one on the mainland UK (as opposed to the North) is ever going to regard Britishness and Irishness as compatible. They created a British Empire, but that didn't mean any native of India was "British" in any sense other than their passport. I don't think anyone born on this island is any different
I realise that I can't make you change your view of yourself (I like to think that I not a fascist), but just consider this. Go back through history and try to find the first time the phrase "British" was ever used. The chances are that it was invented by some guy in an office in London for the purpose of gaining support for the monarchy, empire, etc. My point is-"Britishness" doesn't exist (in my view). The English do not see you as the same as they are, no more than they would me.
It's not my Union Jack, chief, and believe me I'm a pretty strong nationalist. But we've got to get our heads out of the sand. What you guys are saying is that basically any Irishman who goes abroad and distinguishes himself in any way is a West British bollocks because he didn't stay at the parish pump like the parochial, narrow-minded majority. That attitude doesn't stick with me.
I really do think that some of the people before posting comments should become familiar with the following.The United kingdom means England Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland sometimes called the six counties otherwise the rest of Ireland is Eire or the Irish Republic, but whether it is the north or south of Ireland it is collectively the Island of Ireland .Chieftan
sceolaing100 3 weeks ago
I am an american of Irish descent. I served in the US Army in WW2 .God Bless the Irish Guards.
happygael 5 months ago 3
my son is english and is a sgt in the regiment....most of his mates are from liverpool and birmingham, with some irish guys too.....dont think it matters where u come from ...
debz1105 6 months ago
hey manormaid i bet it was only the officers who were english
stephennelson1690 8 months ago
Anybody here knows if the irish guards fought in Burma during ww2 ?
TinyArts 8 months ago
Does this brigade actually have Irish guys(from Dublin or Tipp for example) in it or is it just the name.
manormaid 1 year ago
@manormaid They reckon about half are from Ireland -North & South - but their main recruiting area is Liverpool which has been virtually an Irish colony for 100+ years. The Lord Mayor of Dublin once described Liverpool as "Dublin's overspill" meaning new suburb because until 20 years ago it was the main ferry port for Ireland.
Sadly at least one Dublin boy was killed in Iraq and returned home for burial.
freebeerfordworkers 9 months ago
@manormaid My family were Galway. I served in the Irish Guards with people from all over Ireland, North and South, Catholic and Protestant. NO RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL PROBLEMS. Being tolerant was the thing - God we even allowed Englishmen in the Regiment!! lol What counted was the capbadge you wore, not where you came from.
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The Druid's Government has been govern under the Brehon Laws under the Pagan High Kingsfor over 2140 years before the birth of Christ.
Dear Born Again Pagan Celts for the Hill of Tara, lets celebrate a REVERSE PARADOX on MAEWYN SUCCAT Day. On March 17th lets RENAME Saint Patrick Day as CELTIC PAGAN LIBERATION DAY! With creative advertising we should be able to PROMOTE a REVERSE PARADOX by saying, "Wear all GREEN if you are Proud to be a BORN AGAIN PAGAN CELT!"
MagicTellaVision 1 year ago
Thank you Ireland for your service. What more can I say. A grateful English lady. God bless the lads in Afghanistan.
Insperato62 1 year ago
None tougher
mercian7 1 year ago
What is the first tune played?
dubhslaine2 1 year ago
WESTBRITS ,, GO HOME BRITISH TERRORISTS ,,,
1916supermc 1 year ago
thats the real irish army there the irish fought for hundreds of years for the crown and still do today the irish army is only been around 90 odd years and has done nothing the irish guards make me proud to be irish
DEATHBYGHANDI 1 year ago
To all the stupid people that write hate posts on every video of the Irish Guards. Stop living in the past. The Irish Guards have been refered to as "the most Irish regiment in the British army". This reference is for good reason. They are Irish,period.Many great and true Irishmen served and will continue to serve in this great regiment. Up The Micks!!
Daithipiper 1 year ago 3
@Daithipiper ur wastin ur breath mate. the people who post shit are the same people that crop up on so many videos of the british forces. bitter sad little people that really need to get some balls and try sayin some of the things they say on here to a soldier to his/her face.they are pathetic. i love bein an irish guard and some little bigot wont change that. quis separabit!
kyle6327 1 year ago 2
@Daithipiper well probobly not the most irish .. don't forget about the Royal Irish they're fairly irish to ... hence the name Royal Irish .. any way i completely agree with you people should stop living in the past i know it's hard for some people but we need to get over it.
christophergowing 1 year ago
traitrs
w1ld66catab 2 years ago
NOT IRISH ,BUT BRITISH TERRORISTS ,,,
1916supermc 2 years ago
Take your pills mate, they're wearing off.
SuperQuiller 2 years ago
yeh as opposed to the IRA who just murder civilians and off duty police or soldiers collecting a pizza you're a fuckin disgrace to ireland
DEATHBYGHANDI 1 year ago
@1916supermc grow up you weak minded person.
38jonda 1 year ago
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1916supermc 2 years ago
God bless the Micks, loyal British through and through, as are our brave Scots guards, and the rest of the Britsh armed forces!
dazze17 2 years ago 5
i'm starting me training with the irish guards next week
LIMERICKPADDY 2 years ago 3
good luck with it :)
paratrooper6 2 years ago 2
Up the Micks!
lars3939 2 years ago 3
Having looked through the posts on here I'm almost ashamed to be Irish. I served in the British Army (in the Irish Guards) after my family had to leave Ireland because my father lost his job and was blocked from any other decent work by the policies of a cowardly Spanish-American bastard! My da served in WW2, and together with my 2 brothers I followed him. I am, and always will be proud of my service. It makes me no less Irish and we do tend to be good at fighting for other people anyway
frankex312 2 years ago 27
When did You served in the Irish Guards as my dad was in them for 22 years
TONYSPURSMAN 2 years ago
Tony, I left the Battalion in 1989,
Quis Separabit
frankex312 2 years ago
There's no law that says Irish blood cannot also be 'British' blood.
sabradan 2 years ago
@frankex312 good for you. devalera was a worthless bastard.
38jonda 1 year ago
@frankex312 Yeah, fighting and working for others, never for themselves.
manormaid 9 months ago
flipperpolo i was gonna make comment on yer post til i saw ralphklunder ...now thats a twat of the highest order
malarky321 2 years ago
Love you from a machine gunner 3rd Infantry Division you are good soldiers!!!!!!: )!!!!!!!!!!!
gobearcubies 2 years ago
Just outta curiosity - can a citizen of the United States with Irish heritage who has parents that were born/raised in Belfast join the Irish Guards, or the Royal Irish Regiment?
FMichael1970 3 years ago
very unlikely mate but not positive on that. If you was canadian or commonwealth citizen then you could.
daveyRIR 3 years ago
@FMichael1970 If your grandparent was born in Ireland you are an Irish citizen and Irish citizens can join, obviously.
philipem01 1 year ago
@philipem01 I'm born and raised in Sweden with a Swedish passport but my grandfather was a irishman, born in Dublin does that mean that i'm allowed to join? I'm to old now but it would be interesting to know.
TinyArts 8 months ago
@FMichael1970 Hang on I just reread this. Depending on when your parents were were born you may already BE an irish citizen and a british citizen as well. Email me for details, give your parents and your own place and year of birth...
philipem01 1 year ago
how can you see their irish guards? because of the green in their hats? sry if i sound stupid.
ralphklunder 3 years ago
buttons are arranged different on the tunics to other guards regiments also the blue hackle in the bearskins shows them apart.
daveyRIR 3 years ago
they dont wear a hackle on the bearskins they wear plumes . they wear hackles on the doublet (pipers hat)
Just wanted to correct you
QUIGGEZ 3 years ago
just wanted to correct you the pipers hat is called a caubeen
paddy8461 2 years ago
oh The Almight Adorn thy Might of Execellence Britania
zam4ex 3 years ago
hhhhhhhhhhhhh
faresbank 3 years ago
its called the Irish guards so people of Irish descent or from Ireland can join its the same with the Scots guards and the welsh guards
zone275 3 years ago 4
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most of the irish guards are british lol
0o0dead0o0 3 years ago
they are a very irish regiment quis separabit god bless the micks i love them
paddy8461 3 years ago 2
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der about as irish as the fuckin whore herself......the queen....
kramervkramer 3 years ago
damn...sorry i forgot the grenadiers...i put my hands up to my stupidity........no disrespect
malarky321 3 years ago
the irish guards are one of the greatest regiments in the british army....sworn along with the other guard regiments (scots,colstream & welsh)...ffs they stand outside buck house...memebers of the guards are recognised by by their peers...and if its good enough for them....
malarky321 3 years ago 2
people keep sating "Irish pretending to be British" here alot...well most of them are from Northen Ireland so that makes them British...so hence they are not "dressing up"
keep her lit guards! Quis Separabit
daveyRIR 3 years ago
No they arent. NI is in the UK not Britain. To be British you have to live or have been born in either England, Scotland or Wales. Anyone in Ireland even if they are in the North is Irish. Which is why if you look at a UK passport it will say "the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland". Altho technically everyone in Ireland is Irish, regardless of belief, culturally unionists will claim to be British.
snytaxx 3 years ago
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There as irish as the French were in 1743.
CiachSibhse 3 years ago
dad h8s reg
nobs ...
joeydemarco2Para 3 years ago
Amm There not Irish!!!!!!!!!!
BabiiKLo 3 years ago
U lot or not irish so stop claiming to be,u go down on the bended knee to a bunch of inbred royals and carry the butchers apron as a flag.
Saoire na eire.
PATRICKEIRE 3 years ago
yeah i will say im a little confused to see somemany Irishmen dressing up and pretending to be brits. Given I think the current queen of england is cool, its just wrong man. After everything Britains done to the world, youre going to kiss their ass?
thinking77 3 years ago
thinking77 - probably no more confusing than it is for the rest of the world to see native americans being loyal to the U.S. after the way they've been treated. At least Britain has given most of Ireland back - the native americans have no chance of getting their country back lol. oh and btw, if you ever go to northern ireland you'll find that the majority protestants don't think they're "pretending" to be Brits - as far as they're concerned they ARE Brits.
dazzmatt89 3 years ago 6
but we are still irish regiment with many strong irish tradition do you know a lot about the micks do you id like you to challenge me on youre knowledge
paddy8461 3 years ago 3
i dont know a lot about the irish guards, but i can always look it up. I forgot what I wrote on here, but judging by the responses it was something biased and unresearched, so tell me more things about the irish and british guards i should look up.
thinking77 3 years ago
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SORRY DON'T READ THIS IF U R SCARED EASILY I READ IT AND HAD NO WARNING AND I DON'T WANT IT TO HAPPEN TO ME
PLEASE DON'T READ THIS!!!!! in 1964 13 year old Elisa Johnson was raped and murdered in North Carolina, her body was found with multiple stab wounds, and now that you've read this, every night she will come to your house and hang from your closet with glowing red eyes, the only way to stop this is to post this to 10 other videos
Gh0stK1ll4h 3 years ago
my brother got on my utube so if theres any stupid comments its him ....
JEJGANGSTER 3 years ago
lol
DCMclarenFan 3 years ago
Thats Roman Catholic thanks and God Bless all here !! : )!! sorry your King Henry banished the Real religion of England take care all!!!
gocubbybears 3 years ago 5
oliver are you still around? you are so boring.
jaalmorrell 3 years ago
I dont like killin Muslims either friend Im a Soldier in the US Army and God Bless!! : )!!!
gocubbybears 3 years ago
Thank you fromk an Irishman GOD BLESS get to Mass would you!? Take care friend! Its the sword Dance of Scot take care friend !! : )!!
gocubbybears 3 years ago
can Catholics join the Guard?? Thanks friends God Bless All !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gocubbybears 3 years ago
of course rc's can join the irish guards, i would dare say most serving guardsmen in the regiment are rc's.
jaalmorrell 3 years ago 2
Thanks friend and God Bless ! : )!!
gocubbybears 3 years ago
Soldiers with class!!! God bless and love all!!!!!
gocubbybears 3 years ago 3
Im from Belfast dickhead and I've served the queen, most of the guards are from the republic and they do the same. Go figure that out you prat. "so called soldiers", you'd never be man enough to lick their boots, you sad spastic.
Yorkshireloyal 3 years ago 3
well u keep serving the queen cause there isnt a hope in hell that someone from IRELAND would ever follow a foreign leader
bates1888 3 years ago
The Irish guards do dickhead. What planet are you on numpty.
Yorkshireloyal 3 years ago 2
padstermac, a bit sour there, aren't we? always look on the bright side of life. don't wallow in misery.
ms51472 3 years ago
God save the Irish Regiment and God save the Queen.
ms51472 3 years ago
Sir ,
My father was in 24 Guards Armoured Brigade in 1942 . Hitler was on the doorstep . The Irish Gurds were ready . He cancelled the appointment . God bless the Micks !!!!!!!
stewarthird 3 years ago 2
or maybe they just prefer a different government to you ...
Chewlip 3 years ago
I'm an American of Irish decent (Limerick County) - God Bless all of you who keep this tradition alive.
I confess I don't know all of the nuances of the politics there but I know I'd want a good mick at my side in a brawl.
wiking44 3 years ago 3
You have no idea what you're writing, wiking.
ms51472 3 years ago
The bit about me not being fit to call myself Irish is weird given that I won an award for a performance in an Irish language play a few months back, but apparently that doesn't mean much to yourself. If you've read any of my postings (and if you didn't you shouldn't comment on them) you would have seen that what I've been saying is that just because an Irishman joins the British army doesn't mean he's a bad person. You can neither prove nor disprove this
jeffhegarty 3 years ago 4
Fair enough. point taken.
padstermac 3 years ago
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What is that music called.
conor875 3 years ago
not entirely true, the Battalion is still roughly about 60% irish from both North and South.
ballynafeigh 3 years ago 4
barely any of the micks are irish most of them are from england or wales
harlo115 3 years ago
well said Dd714,
grae707 3 years ago
well said Dd714,
grae707 3 years ago
That is rubbish! all the best British Soldiers have been Irishmen: Wellington, Alanbrooke, Alexander, Dill, Maine, to name but a few!
DaveHorse1 4 years ago 3
Oh I'm with you on that, but there's got to be a balance between admiring guys like the one's you've mentioned and capitulating the ones who would hurt innocent people for sport. OK these guys are in probably every army in the world, but our nations do have a complex history, agreed?
jeffhegarty 3 years ago
Its amazing how many ignoramouses who are still stuck in the ancient past.
They are so sick and twisted they dont know that Ireland and England are not enemies now but friends.
wake up people and get your scrawny asses into the 21st century!
Djd714 4 years ago 2
We hope. See what I said to davyharto for a bit of healthy skepticism. My possible future sister-in-law is English-got not problem with them as a race. Their secret service, on the other hand, fills me with fear and loathing.
jeffhegarty 4 years ago
thats right, its a UNITED KINGDOM now
and its fantastic
DCMclarenFan 3 years ago
thats right, its a UNITED KINGDOM now
and its fantastic
DCMclarenFan 3 years ago
ireland isnt part of the UK Northern ireland is tho
harlo115 3 years ago
ireland isnt part of the UK Northern ireland is tho
harlo115 3 years ago
ok, so part of ireland is part of the UK
hence, part of the UK....
DCMclarenFan 3 years ago
sort of NI is a different counry from the republic ireland is part of the british isles tho
harlo115 3 years ago
Like you, when I think of the British army, I think of Bloody Sunday and the Dublin/Monaghan bombings, but just because someone, anyone, puts on the uniform doesn't mean they are automatically evil.
jeffhegarty 4 years ago
quis separabit
QUIGGEZ 4 years ago
U lot are About as irish as maggie thatcher,i cant understand why any self respecting true irishman would want to be on the bended knee to a so called royal family who by the way arnt even british,their german,how funny is that?
PATRICKEIRE 4 years ago
the first few guys to post on this are complete idiots, the irish guards is a brittish regiment u pack of wankers. get some education
milnemyster 4 years ago
Why is it referred to as "the Irish Guards"? You could have just called them "Her Majesty's Bunch of Immigrant Paddies". There are still plenty of those lads with an Irish passport. And as for PATRICKEIRE, speaking as a Corkman and a nationalist, the day you say someone isn't Irish because he's in a British uniform is the day we shit on our nationhood.
jeffhegarty 4 years ago
no my friend he came to the regiment on the wk after the 18/8/03 his name was wayne golding small black lad from smiths wood was mates with gdsm james carson also from birmingham
nakmauy1 4 years ago
ohhhhhhhhhh your a red ass !!!
garfdude25 4 years ago
Im an english lad from Birmingham who is proud to say i was a mick and god bless the REGIMENT.ANY 1 STILL IN DO THEY NO OF A GAURDSMAN GOLDING AND IF SO IS HE STILL SERVICE.
nakmauy1 4 years ago
Hey if you mean james golden from birmingham then he left in 2002/3 after being shot in germany !!! I still see him all the time !!!!
garfdude25 4 years ago
Any idea what the piper's playing?
jeffhegarty 4 years ago
The first tune is the 4/4 march "Peter McKenzie Warren". Then 2 strathspeys, the first is "Sporting Jamie" and the second is "The Smith's a Gallant Fireman". Can't help on the reel though.
cid68piper 4 years ago
Cheers. Good stuff all around
jeffhegarty 4 years ago
Up the Micks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God bless them
mpfranc 4 years ago
my passport says eire willypower. id like to see u call me english to my face u bigoted muppet. get a grip. Up The Micks!!! Quis Seperabit
kyle6327 4 years ago
yes i agree fully allright kyle fancy meeting you here
paddy8461 3 years ago
Well and good, but these guys are just as Irish as Gabriel Byrne. The day we start saying they're Brits just because they wear red is the day we lose any remaining sense of identity.
jeffhegarty 4 years ago
a personally think they have lost there sense of ientity, a disgrace to the emerald isle, fuck your union jack.
celticcore32 4 years ago
In the words of Kipling, "If he who broke you be minded to teach you, to his madrissa go." Sure, the Irish have had their share of rotten treatment by the Brits. But Ireland is part of the UK (well, some of it), and your soldiers have distinguished themselves in the service of what is now their country. So lighten up, Paddy.
Morganfrost 4 years ago
Strange though for you guys. After all the "rotten treatment", you need us to guard your head of state.
jeffhegarty 4 years ago
probably the best most diciplined regiment in the world. and the most respected by anybody with half a brain unlike most of the people posting here. Irish guards arent irish. its just a name most of them are brittish or northern irish. which is still britian if u are all too thick to know that. i hate idiots. you have no idea how stupid you all sound. ignorant wankers.
milnemyster 4 years ago
But with still plenty of guys recruited from the Republic. Lieutenant Charlie Williams from Limerick, Sgt. Maj. Pearse Lally from Dublin, Sgt. Tony Charles from Cork, my home county. I've just mentioned at least 2 places you probably wouldn't be able to find on the map, you dozy fuck
jeffhegarty 4 years ago
yea well done mate, wouldnt be able to find them on the map. im representing ireland on the olympic sailing team u dick. and im from the north.
milnemyster 4 years ago
My apologies on mixing up your citizenship and the best of look on the sailing front, but no one on the mainland UK (as opposed to the North) is ever going to regard Britishness and Irishness as compatible. They created a British Empire, but that didn't mean any native of India was "British" in any sense other than their passport. I don't think anyone born on this island is any different
jeffhegarty 4 years ago
im brittish
milnemyster 4 years ago
I realise that I can't make you change your view of yourself (I like to think that I not a fascist), but just consider this. Go back through history and try to find the first time the phrase "British" was ever used. The chances are that it was invented by some guy in an office in London for the purpose of gaining support for the monarchy, empire, etc. My point is-"Britishness" doesn't exist (in my view). The English do not see you as the same as they are, no more than they would me.
jeffhegarty 4 years ago
It's not my Union Jack, chief, and believe me I'm a pretty strong nationalist. But we've got to get our heads out of the sand. What you guys are saying is that basically any Irishman who goes abroad and distinguishes himself in any way is a West British bollocks because he didn't stay at the parish pump like the parochial, narrow-minded majority. That attitude doesn't stick with me.
jeffhegarty 4 years ago
there not real irishmen,fighting for the queen,there english
WILLYPOWER 4 years ago
im irish and im in the irish guards i come from the republic of ireland
paddy8461 3 years ago 20
i didnt even know that was possible.haha to be honest i never even knew that there was an irish guard in britan.
flipperpolo 3 years ago
@paddy8461 Be proud you are part of a long and honourable tradition well done
Munstersir 1 year ago
up the Micks!!!!!!!!!!!
duffpaddy00 4 years ago
Why are the Irish Guards some times called wooden tops ?
GavShields 4 years ago
GIBBO YOU RED ARSE
UP THE MICKS QS
ANT
ANTHONYFAYE 4 years ago
Seeing this Video makes me wish i was still standing Proud as an Irish Guardsman does. Quis Seperabir
L/Cpl Ross 'GIBBO' Gibson 2 Coy
ross762 4 years ago
great vid!
8top8 4 years ago