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The helmets are frequently badly dented. They look more symbolic than a real protection.

I swear I saw Spike Milligan in that film.

Not tru army of irish republic

We would have been better off going with the English but dev was a spineless fuck and a nazi sympathiser we were like a third would country and its no better today from the start of the state we have been lead by ignorant muck savages

What's with the Jerry helmets?

There's my father he was an army from Indonesia for United Nation

Katanga broke away and chose democracy, the UN sent in troops, crushed them, and let them be enslaved by the communists... the UN lost all legitimacy after that.

it looked like a mix of Wehrmacht and the Brits

Those helmets really are shameful. Was it really such a big deal that they could not design their own?

it was here with the green howards i shot my first man. a rebel just outside smithstown.

U.N. WEF,WHO,CDC AND NEW WORLD ORDER CAN ALL PISS OFF.

Now Africa has come to Ireland.

People to this day slander Ireland for not fighting in WW2 (Even though plenty of Irish men died fighting for the British), but forget that Ireland had just been fighting the British 20 years prior. The crimes the Germans were committing were not known, so why would they have Ireland destroyed their country which was peaceful for the first time in 100s of years to fight and die with a country that they were still in the process of gaining independence from, still owned their land and had committed atrocities in their land only a couple of decades prior.

Watching this, you could only conclude that the British are going to need to help them in an invasion because these lads are under-equipped badly.

Money money money always sunny............

Why in hells name would you want to go around with a coal scuttle on you head!..

Okay

Irish army in German helmets.😂😂😂😂

That was an exercise they did in 2019.

About 70.000 joining the armed forces, plus 200.000 doing civil work air bases etc. A lot never went back to their home country.

If you want to know what the actual state of affairs was with regard to equipment prior to WW 2, then get the Irish Sword publication and it tells the whole story. The Goverment and Army were more than aware of how badly they were equipped and they started a programme of buying or manufacturing as much as they could afford. They examined every weapon that was in stores and concluded that the best route was to stay with British arms. There was a large pool of Civil War weapons but most were obsolete or rusted or of odd calibres so they were scrapped or stripped for spares. Old artillery guns were either scrapped or overhauled and modernised,such as the 18 pdr,which in 1939 was still a useful field gun. Thompsons of Carlow were commissioned to make mines, grenades and armoured cars and were very successful at this. A lot of personal equipment such as uniforms and webbing were made in Ireland from civil stocks of cloth, to avoid having to buy it from the UK. Groups of Officers were sent to the USA and UK to inspect arms for potential purchase but quite often, their suggestions were refused by the Dept of Finance. Often, as war got closer, actual placed orders were delayed by the vendor countries for political reasons. Every man of the Army knew full well that they were short of everything and the country tried valiantly to rearm and refit at a time of serious national poverty.

Irish Quartermaster: I could have sworn the surplus vendor described them as 'cheap STOLEN helmets' not 'stahlhelms'. Sorry boys, they'll have to do for yous.

Yup the irish biys

The Irish army wasn't formed until after the end of the 1922/3 civil war and saw no active service until it served as UN peacekeepers in the newly independent Congo from 1960. Apparently when a reporter asked their commander how he thought they'd do, their commander replied by saying they'd be fine because 'Weren't they and the combatants both from countries that had suffered from colonialism?' This optimistic attitude only lasted until the Congolese rebels hijacked a tanker full of Guinness destined for the Irish contingent. Strangely enough, all hell then broke loose. The story goes that one of the Micks was captured and murdered by a bunch of local tribesmen and when his dear old Mum back in the ould sod was informed that her son had been strung up by the Baloobas, she said 'Whoy did dey have to do dat? Could dey not have just hanged him by de neck as in de normal way of such t'ings?' ... and if you believe that, you'll believe anything.

Id no idea the Irish had Lysanders...i knew about the vickers produced stalhelm copies ( sure had alot of dents in them though!) I know the rifles were british hand me downs too. But youd have expected the Irish to at least want to look more different from the british, considering the history...

Name of these long boots?

Sean: how do we know who the ememy is ? Paddy: just shoot the ones wearing the different helmets to you Sean.....

At least they're Not lead by a Family......with inbreeds... Perverted Child Molesting King's and Queens.... They look.....sick. ....... Those "English Pedophilia" Royalties ........ Are The Nazis and the English Royalties related by blood ? ..... Start around Yr. 1900 WW1 Sure nuf....Uncle Willy ... The Common people's of England..... deserves better Thanks for the prop

Ireland only lacked manpower and financial back. Otherwise good warriors.

lol irish army who?

Dressed like WW1 Germans

Stahlhelms and Lee Enfields

Peek boo, Hitler saw the Irish. Now the world sees it, too.

Why are they wearing German hats??.

in ww2 China also made the ww1 German helmuts for their troops fighting the Japanese

I remember those little carts still being used for fire hoses in Kilworth camp in the 2000’s..

Cue the Benny Hill music🤣🤣🤣🤣

Irish army on the move.......shame they never made a move to fight the British occupation forces

Except for the pipers they resemble Nazis... of course they backed Hitler.

More German army

German helmets ..or get it up you England.

The Irish government did allow RAF Sunderland flying-boats to overfly Derry in the battle of the Atlantic. To this day there are large concrete number along Ireland's west coast. Built to assist WW2 USAAF bombers which had wandered to far south on their journey to Britain.

THEY USED STALHELMS?!?!!

In 1986, the Irish Navy got a new boat. It had to wait another three years for the oars.

So many comments on this about how the Irish won this , or won that, and more medals of honour etc etc........amazing how such a vaunted bunch of fighting men stayed at home. Let's be right here, if Adolf had got his foot into the UK, they'd have fallen in step with him.

Hilarious 🤣🤣🤣

Lovely Germanic uniforms. A gift from the Kaiser perhaps.

I am curious why the films narrator has such an English Accent... do we know who made the film and its intended audience?

The Irish Army is still fledgling .. a bit of a joke .