This is a design by the renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava for St. Nicholas Orthodox Church at the World Trade Center, New York (credit: Santiago Calatrava LLC, Zurich). Calatrava is one of my favourite architects.
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28/05/2020
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This is a design by the renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava for St. Nicholas Orthodox Church at the World Trade Center, New York (credit: Santiago Calatrava LLC, Zurich). Calatrava is one of my favourite architects.
31/10/2013
Uncategorized American Civil War, Britain, Confederacy, Confederate, Confederate States of America, England, Ireland, Irish, Irish Brigade, New York, Robert Lee, Union, United States, USA 3 Comments
By Periklis Deligiannis
The Irish Brigade at Gettysburg. A classic artwork by Don Troiani.
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The Irish Infantry Brigade of the Federal Army (USA) in the Civil War consisted mainly of Irish immigrants and Americans of Irish descent, Catholics almost entirely. After the Civil War, the 69th Infantry Regiment of New York is considered to be the descendant unit of the Brigade (because its power was decreased because of the losses and the demobilization after the end of the war). Moreover, the 69th Regiment which goes on serving the U.S. Army was the original core of the Brigade. The Irish Brigade became famous for the high aggressiveness of its men and their characteristic Celtic battle cry ‘Fag an bealach!’ (‘Open the way!’, in Gaelic Celtic), typical of its risky missions.
The Celts have always been renowned (already from Antiquity) for their bravery on the battlefield, being elite combatants (warriors and then soldiers) and renown mercenaries. On the other hand, the Celtic soldiers (expect possibly the Highlander Scots) were often considered to be expendable by the Anglo-Saxon political-military leaderships of the U.S. and Britain until the end of World War I. However, the heavy losses suffered generally by the Fed Irish soldiers during the Civil War were not always necessarily due to this mutual antipathy between Anglo-Saxons (‘natives’ as they called themselves) and Celts (usually newcomer immigrants), which in this period often ended in street clashes with several people dead in major American cities of the North like New York, Boston, Philadelphia etc. Their losses in the war were due to a significant extent, to the aforementioned martial reputation of the Celts: they used to undertake a major part of the fighting, thereby they had such heavy losses.