Why Irish and Mexican Eyes Smile on St. Pat’s Day

This heart-wrenching bit of Irish-Mexican history involves the St. Patrick’s Battalion, also known as San Patricios.

[@timlinator]

Son of an Irish immigrant to America living in San Francisco and very proud of Los San Patricio's. Brave and honorable men fighting along side our Mexican comrades against the same anglo imperialism that invaded Ireland some 600 years prior and still brutally occupied it. F***k anglo imperialism! Anglos out of northern Ireland and northern Mexico aka the southwest. Viva Mexico y Erin go Bragh!

[@lacraification]

Bob Scott thanks Bob viva mi Mexico y viva nuestra patria hermana Irlanda!!!

[@timlinator]

De nada. Viva Mexico y Erin go Bragh. Comrades forever.

[@highscoreboy6906]

Bob Scott LOL you are drunk I have an idea come to mexico and clean my house remember No Irish Need Apply

[@timlinator]

HighScore Boy I've been to Mexico many times and they are very friendly. You can come to my house and clean it. I'm too busy with my six figure tech job to clean it. The No Irish Need Apply is from the same racist anglos that stole half of Mexico, murdered and raped native Americans for their land and took slaves from Africa.

[@timlinator]

@@highscoreboy6906 you are a russian bot go away.

[@berthabaeza7093]

THE IRISH WERE NOT TRAITORS THEY DESERTED BECAUSE THEY WERE TREATED LIKE CATTLE IN THE USA. THEY WERE TREATED WORSE THAN BLACKS IN SOME CASES . MEXICO TREATED THEM WITH RESPECT AND HONOR. STILL TO THIS DAY ALL IRISH ARE HIGHLY RESPECTED IN MEXICO

[@ericktellez7632]

Not a lot of people know this but some irish were actual slaves brought by the english settlers.

[@jonathanturek5846]

Viva la Mexico 🇮🇪 ❤ 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 ❤ 🇮🇪 Por mucho mucho anos y mucho mucho mas anos

[@adrianaramirez-lipani2610]

🙌🏼

[@redaug4212]

No, they were traitors. Defecting to the opposing side is literally what "traitor" means. The real heroes were the Irishmen who stood by the nation they emigrated to despite the discrimination.

[@timlinator]

@@redaug4212 They weren't traitors. Most were straight off the boat and not even citizens yet but tricked into joining then mistreated. By your definition George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and all the founding fathers were traitors.

[@jessicamunoz8300]

Everyone has their own story.. The truth is that here in Mexico we remember them with respect. In the U.S they disrespect the Irish with their parades dressed like leprechauns.

[@isacgyri7129]

Stfu

[@KuramiRocket]

@@isacgyri7129 It's true tho. The U.S. has a history of disrespecting culture, ruining countries, stealing land, and killing foreigners

[@isacgyri7129]

@@KuramiRocket i know im mexican they took are land and killed us over it

[@KuramiRocket]

@@isacgyri7129 Yes!!! I'm indigenous Mexican and this fact still makes me so mad. The U.S. had no right to invade our country. Just seemed like an easy land grab tbh.

[@isacgyri7129]

@Laoch but your white u run america

[@johnysolo8154]

Always proud by the long lasting alliance of our people, long live Ireland and Mexico!!!

[@carlosgaribay1665]

Johny Solo si

[@jonathanturek5846]

"La Familia" es beautiful Long live the Friends in battle together 🇮🇪 y 🇲🇽

[@luisgomez3936]

Erin go Bragh! We in México will always honor Los San Patricios for their sense of honor, their bravely and heroism!!

[@dago9404]

HighScore Boy bc u are a gringo! México love Irish pepole!

[@timlinator]

HighScore Boy The mercenaries worked for the us government and called themselves soldiers. For land and gold in the past and today for oil. Irish are anti-imperialist rebels around the world.

[@raul1899]

Luis Gomez We don't!!! And that makes me so upset.

[@Sosa081]

@@highscoreboy6906 the Americans considered them equal to blacks and you already know how bad the blacks were treated

[@highscoreboy6906]

@@Sosa081 you're right kj2017.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/the-ignorant-vote.jpg but in the end it's not just "gratuitous hate" even irish people hate themselves for that reason exist two irelands because they are intolerable closed minded people

[@timlinator]

Irishman in Alta California, occupied northern Mexico. Anglos still occupy northern Ireland and northern Mexico. Our day will come when we get all our land back.

[@michaelmayen6240]

“Un sepulcro para ellos de honor” y los justos Mártires Irlandeses del ‘47 viven en el corazón de México

[@Castlecoke]

The Irish were our heroes. Our family. Our friend. Our brothers. Our fellow warriors. And stood beside us on the field of battle. They deserve our respect and admiration..i kneel b4 for them out of humility. As a Marine. They were great warriors.

[@marianoyola5876]

🥺🥺🥺 god bless St Patrick’s héroes 🇮🇪☘️💓💓💓🇲🇽

[@patriciokelly6405]

Im proud to be a Mexican with Irish Roots

[@sean864]

Catholic brothers 🇮🇪☝🏻🇲🇽

[@sergiomendez9288]

Viva Irlanda viva México..

[@jonathanturek5846]

🇮🇪 ❤ 🇲🇽 United under the ✝ We would do it again if tyranny rises red beards and brown skin are brothers with arms united to fight for what is right in our hearts

[@allexojeda91]

Makes me proud to be Mexicano and part irish

[@tonydiablo6976]

Viva Los San Patricios and their descendants Ireland forever our allies God bless

[@patriciokelly6405]

Gracias amigo ,viva Mexico y Irlanda

[@tonydiablo6976]

@@patriciokelly6405 🤝

[@jessesilva7448]

My daughter was born on this day viva los Irish and viva Mexico

[@MichaelOBrien71]

Congrats 👍☘️

[@rickjamesjr6651]

Utmost respect to the Irish ☘️ true warriors thru and thru

[@sylezmakefightz9727]

🇮🇪 🇲🇽 🤜🏻🤛🏽

[@juliocasanova7027]

Pero ellos no fueron los únicos; mucho tiempo antes, un hombre llamado, "Guillén de Lampart" ("William Lamport"); ya tenía una idea clara del glorioso futuro que México debía tener, con los ideales de libertad e igualdad, que sentarían las bases de la lucha por la independencia de España. Orgulloso irlandés que dio su vida por esos ideales, y cuya estatua; puede ser encontrada en el interior de la columna que sostiene a "El Ángel de la Independencia", en la Ciudad de México.

[@aubreyaragon988]

I'm disappointed in my old high school for not knowing about this at the time. I myself have both nationalities other than Spanish, and I will say this. We fellow Americans do owe Mexico 🇲🇽 for all the pain, and suffering we inflicted towards them. Just like what we did to the Native Americans. Yes we due owe Ireland 🇮🇪 so does United Kingdom for all inflicting pain, agony from Bloody Sunday January 30 1972 to Hunger Strike May 5 1981. I'm so lost with words right now.

[@phantasm8180]

HEROES !!!!! ERIG GO BRAGH!!!!

[@carlosi7026]

*ERIN

[@maximo.villanueva.7552]

I have a friend (mexican) but is strange he is white an his hair is like red maybe he is a patricious guy.

[@earbud83]

Like canelo

[@Non-religiou]

He is probably part Mexican part irish

[@timlinator]

Irish Californian and Los San Patricio's are HEROES not traitors. Viva Mexico, Viva California Libre y Erin go Bragh!

[@world_mem7567]

Éirinn go Brach!

[@top3misterioyterrorzapoyot571]

Erin go bragh

[@12345shushi]

This mexican irish relationship created hereos that both countries like, like saul canelo alvarez!

[@arodriguez6567]

Interesting!

[@lodi7696]

Is always kind of hard to take when is mention that the US "gained" half of the territory of Mexico.....I can think of another word..

[@top3misterioyterrorzapoyot571]

Thief.

[@12truck]

Anyone know what the names of these two tunes are??

[@alainlira1970]

Son heroes de Mexico el Batallon de San Patricio familia LiR

[@christopherluvsaidan67]

Y porque Son Catolícos tambien. Mexico y Ireland para Siempre

[@dhristov8327]

CS\cATOLIKES WORLD IS OWR LANDS! oWR LANDS CATOLIX!

[@davidmigueljimenezmercado2629]

😎🇲🇽

[@adrianaramirez-lipani2610]

Traitors? The Americans treated the Irish ☘️ like crap.

[@gohan7104]

hahha meixcan american here. wierd tom think the iris h helped us. slwayd in our heartz=s

[@ceciceja661]

only astronaut cool I'm Irish mexican

[@highscoreboy6906]

Okuto Uchiha awwwww you're so special here's your prize my little meskin wannabe mongrel: .I.

[@robs4988]

LoL. Bagpipes are Scottish and St. Patrick was Welsh.

[@irishpride9867]

William of Orange was dutch and George the 1st the king of England was German. And your point is ???

[@jakeharrington2004]

Also the fact that what you hear might not be bagpipes, it might be Uilleann pipes, and Scotts and irish are similar in that they have always had a close connection through blood and marriage, so your point is quite futile to say the least

[@robs4988]

@@jakeharrington2004 And the Irish have just as close a connection to the English yet strangely always pretend they are different. What you are saying then is the Irish really are British, which of course they are.

[@robs4988]

@@irishpride9867 Shouldn't your name be British Pride. After all the Irish are British as you just pointed out. LOL

[@jakeharrington2004]

@@robs4988 the irish and english do have commonalities, but that is all it is is commonalities.i have not implied that or anything of that sort, all i mearly said is that ireland has a history with scotland NOT england, and scotland isnt part of england!

[@redaug4212]

"They were called traitors by American war hawks" That's because they literally were traitors 😂 It doesn't take a "war hawk" to see that.

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

I'd rather be a traitor to a racist,imperialist government that slaughtered its way through Mexico than be a traitor to human decency. But the Americans aren't good with the books so they don't look at it that way

[@redaug4212]

@@user-ze8yy8jg1f And you think that Mexico wasn't run by a racist imperialist government that kept millions in peonage based on a racial hierarchy, and slaughtered and enslaved thousands of Mesoamericans? You my friend, are naive.

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

@@redaug4212 2 wrongs don't make a right. It's the lesser of 2 evils. We are Catholics American ls were protestants Mexicans were Catholics. In the American army they beat irish for being Catholic fed them a lot less than protestant soldiers. Worse equipment then to go in raping and killing other Catholics. Who is the real traitors? The Americans who beat and starved irish soldiers that both took the same oath or the irish soldiers who were sick of seeing fellow Catholics killed for imperial gains

[@redaug4212]

@@user-ze8yy8jg1f In other words, your position isn't based on principle. You don't care that Mexico was governed by tyrants who did the exact same things that the US did. All you care about is how they treated catholics; how they treated *your* tribe. No doubt defecting to Mexico was an easy choice to make for some white European catholics considering how highly regarded they were by Mexican society. The traitors weren't fighting the good fight. They were fighting for themselves. They couldn't care less about American injustices, or, more importantly, Mexican injustices. The real heroes are those who stood by their decision to become Americans despite the hardship and mistreatment. They are the strong men. The Irish and other Europeans who remained loyal now have an enduring legacy as some of the most patriotic Americans, while these traitors are only heroes to people who hate America or aren't even American.

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

@@redaug4212 so your comment is just opinion because there's not one bit of fact to back up any of that. I came here to talk facts. And since your compare Mexican imperialism to America says enough. I take it your a yank and if your not then that's even worse. If Mexican imperialism was the same as American then why does everyone hate America and not Mexico? Anyway one simple thing changes everything. The way they treated irish soldiers in the American army is acts of traitors. Irish faught for Mexico because they were Catholics not lithe Americans