Photograph of the France-Irlande Mémorial in Glasnevin Cemetery.
The case of the Franco-Irish Ambulance Brigade is very interesting. A volunteer corps of about two hundred and fifty men was established in Dublin in 1870. It was comprised of surgeons, medical students and ambulance drivers. They arrived in France in October 1870 and remained there until February 1871. Read about the Franco-Irish Ambulance Brigade in these short articles - the French edition of the Old Limerick Journal and History Ireland.
If would like to find out more on the subject of Franco-Irish military connections, why not have a look at Franco-Irish Military Connections, 1590-1945, edited by Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac and David Murphy (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009). It contains fifteen chapters on various episodes including the Wild Geese, Theobald Wolfe Tone and Irish people who fought for the Resistance in France during the Second World War.
Front cover of Franco-Irish Military Connections, 1590-1945. Worldcat entry.
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