Quote Originally Posted by antisocialmunky View Post
I'm slightly bemused by the fact that it has steered back towards the longbow debate.

But my memory is fuzzy. What did hte Irish contribute to the British Empire besides being a subject of racism and having bad things done to them?
4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
5th Royal Irish Lancers
6th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
8th Royal Irish Hussars
18th Foot (Royal Irish Regiment)
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (27th Regt. of Foot)
Royal Irish Regiment (83rd and 86th Regiments of Foot)
Royal Irish Fusiliers (87th and 89th Regiments of Foot)
Connaught Rangers (88th Regiment of Foot)
Leinster Regiment (100th and 109th Regiments of Foot)
Royal Munster Fusiliers (101st and 104th Regiments of Foot)
Royal Dublin Fusiliers (102nd and 103rd Regiments of Foot)
Irish Guards

""British Army had always used Irishmen, in fact it is has been said "the British Empire was won by the Irish, administered by the Scots and Welsh and the profits went to the English". In recent years the last line was amended to read "lost by the English.""

And as you can tell from my id on this forum, I am what is sometimes called Irish-Scots.

GO'C