☘️☘️Faugh-a-Ballagh ☘️☘️
The war cry of the Irish Brigade, “Faugh a ballagh” is an 18th century anglicization (corruption) of an Irish phrase. Its first recorded use as a regimental motto was by the British Army’s 87th (Prince of Wales’s Irish) Regiment of Foot (who later became the Royal Irish Fusiliers) in 1798. It remains the motto of the UK’s Royal Irish Regiment today. (It is recorded as being shouted by the men of the 2nd Battalion of the 87th Regiment, later The Royal Irish Fusiliers, as they charged the French at the Battle of Barrosa on 5 March 1811. The 87th was apparently known as the “Faugh-a-ballagh boys’ and the “old Faughs.”)
The actual Irish war cry is “Fág an bealach”. (Sometimes as “fág a bealach”)
Fág means “Leave”
An means “the”
Bealach means “Way” as in a road or track, or a route
Phonetic pronunciation
Munster pronunciation: “Fawg on bal-ukh”
(Ulster pronunciation: “ fwack on ballah”
“Faugh-a-ballagh” (in English) seems to mix the Munster and Ulster pronunciations — “fawg on ballah”