This article is about the regiment in the Royal Irish Army and subsequently in French service. For the regiment in the British Army, see Irish Guards.
Royal Irish Regiment of Foot Guards
Regimental standard (1698–1716)
Active
1662–1698; 1698–1791 (in French Army)
Country
Kingdom of Ireland; France
Type
Foot Guards
Role
Line infantry
Size
(1662) 12 companies; 1,200 men (1690) 26 companies; 2,080 men
Garrison/HQ
Dublin (to 1688)
March
When the king enjoys his own again[1]
Engagements
Nine Years' War War of the Austrian Succession 1745 Jacobite Rising Seven Years' War American Revolutionary War
Commanders
Colonel of the Regiment
Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran
Notable commanders
William Dorrington
Military unit
The Royal Irish Regiment of Foot Guards, or His Majesty’s Regiment of Guards in Ireland, was a regiment of foot guards first raised in 1662 for service in Ireland. Part of the Irish Army of Charles II, it was initially garrisoned around Dublin.
During the 1688 Glorious Revolution the Foot Guards under their commanding officer William Dorrington stayed loyal to James II, and fought on the Jacobite side in the Williamite War in Ireland. After the 1697 Peace of Ryswick and the formal disestablishment of James’s army in exile, the Foot Guards were immediately reconstituted in French service as Dorrington’s Regiment, retaining their red coats and Saint George's Cross standard. As part of the Irish Brigade they distinguished themselves in a number of campaigns.
Renamed the Regiment Roth after a subsequent colonel, Michael Roth, and later still as the Regiment Walsh, the regiment did not formally disband until 1791.
^Monod 1993, p. 107.
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