These days, exactly 110 years ago, brave Irish soldiers stood in defense of Serbia (7–12 December 1915).After the catastrophic defeat at Gallipoli, they expected to be sent home, but instead, they were brought to the port of Thessaloniki and soon sent north, to protect the Serbian retreat from Bulgarian attacks.8,000 Irishmen, charged by an enemy twelve times larger.Their mission was not to win, but to hold the line long enough for the Serbian army to withdraw.They were sent wearing summer uniforms.1,000 froze before the battle even began.1,800 died in combat.In gratitude to the 10th Irish Division, the Serbian people raised a monument: a Celtic cross with a shamrock, the symbol of Ireland.The battle took place near the village of Kosturino, close to Valandovo (today North Macedonia), where that same year, on Easter, Bulgarians carried out the "Valandovo Massacre", killing more than 100 Serbian border guards.Eternal glory and gratitude to all them.We visit both of these locations as part of our tours to Kajmakčalan.The song Salonika, sung in Serbia by *Orthodox Celts*, is an Irish song written by Cork songwriter Jimmy Crowley and is dedicated precisely to the Irish soldiers who fought in this almost forgotten battle.
I hate serbs
>>523360064You're welcome.
>>523360204same should have let them die
>>523360064jews fucking loathe irish so expect this thread to be filled with them
>>523360930Not as much as the irish loathe themselves
>>523361016kike
>>523360064>Count Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke (Russian: Иocиф Кopнилoвич Opypк; also Ioseph Kornilovich O'Rourke; 1772–1849) was a Russian nobleman and military leader of Irish descent who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and achieved the rank of lieutenant general. He is noted for leading a campaign against the Turks in present-day Serbia, where a combined Russian and Serb army defeated the Ottoman Empire at Varvarin in 1810.How well known is this man in Serbia? He was from an Irish noble family that moved to the continent after the defeat in the Williamite war here.
>>523361016You are mentally ill
>>523360930Angry jeet hordes inbound….
>celtic cross and a shamrockI am sure they would appreciate the gesture because they had a sense of humour, but the men of the Irish Volunteers of the British Army weren’t exactly going to be le heckin wholesome pot of gold types
>>523361386Did I hallucinate reading about the hundreds of years of endless war between irish clans? Have I hallucinated all the times I hear irish people bitching and crying about how awful the crabs in a bucket mentality is in ireland?You are genuinely mindbroken if gently critical commentary makes you shit your pants this hard. A good solution would be fixing your fucking problems
>protect the Serbian retreat from Bulgarian attacksPathetic
>>523361464>because they had a sense of humourWhat's so funny about putting up a Celtic cross as a memorial for men from Ireland?
>>523361636Stfu jeet
>>523360064>a brother warwhy did it happen? Were jews involved?
>>523361827They should have put a giant statue of King Billy up instead, given the demographics at hand
>>523362315What demographics? It was mostly men from the south and they were mostly Irish Catholics. More Irish Catholics fought for Britain in the war than did Protestants from the North. The regiments were nearly all ones from the south. There's lots of Celtic cross war memorials in Britain and Europe for the Irish regiments that fought in the war.
>>523360064Thank you, Irish bros. I never knew tthis. God save and unite the Irish... And rid them of protestantism...
>>523360064this is how you honor them? with pathetic christcuckery?
