<Table> <Tr> <Th> Regiment </Th> <Th> Active </Th> <Th> Lineage and details </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Royal Irish Regiment </Td> <Td> 1689--present </Td> <Td> The present regiment was founded by a merger of the Royal Irish Rangers and the Ulster Defence Regiment . Also includes among its lineage, the Royal Irish Rifles, the Royal Irish Fusiliers and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, as well as earlier Regiment of Foot . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Irish Guards </Td> <Td> 1900--present </Td> <Td> Part of the Guards Division, founded by order of Queen Victoria to commemorate the Irishmen who fought in the Second Boer War . The regiment are also known as the Fighting Micks . Like other Guards regiments, the Irish Guards wear bearskins and redcoats as their ceremonial dress . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Queen's Royal Hussars </Td> <Td> 1685--present </Td> <Td> This cavalry regiment also features among its ancestors English and Scottish forefathers, but the Irish lineage derives from the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, which later became the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars . They are famously associated with the Charge of the Light Brigade . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Royal Dragoon Guards </Td> <Td> 1685--present </Td> <Td> This cavalry regiment descends from the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, the 7th Dragoon Guards, the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons and the 5th Dragoon Guards, all of which were at some point Irish - based regiments . Today the Dragoons have a joint Yorkshire and Irish identity . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Royal Lancers </Td> <Td> 1689--present </Td> <Td> This cavalry regiment descends from the 5th Royal Irish Lancers (16th / 5th Lancers), the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, 12th Royal Lancers, the 16th The Queen's Lancers (16th / 5th Lancers), 17th Lancers and the 21st Lancers . Today, the Lancers's four current Sabre Squadrons are each named after one of the antecedent Regiments . https://www.ciroca.org.uk/home/the-irish-regiments/the-queen-s-royal-lancers/</ref> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry </Td> <Td> 1902--present </Td> <Td> Originated as the North Irish Horse, yeomanry cavalry regiment founded in the aftermath of the Second Boer War and was revived during the Second World War . The North Irish Horse is currently C Squadron of the regiment, based in Belfast and Coleraine . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> London Irish Rifles </Td> <Td> 1859--present </Td> <Td> <P> Originated as a Victorian volunteer rifle regiment, to represent the Irish diaspora in London, who had arrived in large numbers during the 19th century . It was associated with the Royal Ulster Rifles during the early 20th century . Today it forms D Company of the London Regiment . </P> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Liverpool Irish </Td> <Td> 1860--present </Td> <Td> <P> Originated as a Victorian volunteer rifle regiment, to represent the Irish diaspora in Liverpool, who had arrived in large numbers during the 19th century . It was associated with the King's Regiment (Liverpool) from an early time . Today it forms A Troop of the 208th (3rd West Lancashire) Battery Royal Artillery in the 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery . </P> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Regiment </Th> <Th> Active </Th> <Th> Lineage and details </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Royal Irish Regiment </Td> <Td> 1689--present </Td> <Td> The present regiment was founded by a merger of the Royal Irish Rangers and the Ulster Defence Regiment . Also includes among its lineage, the Royal Irish Rifles, the Royal Irish Fusiliers and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, as well as earlier Regiment of Foot . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Irish Guards </Td> <Td> 1900--present </Td> <Td> Part of the Guards Division, founded by order of Queen Victoria to commemorate the Irishmen who fought in the Second Boer War . The regiment are also known as the Fighting Micks . Like other Guards regiments, the Irish Guards wear bearskins and redcoats as their ceremonial dress . </Td> </Tr>

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