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A Clifden man, who was one of the founding-members of the San Patricio Brigade of the Mexican army, is to have a Sinn Féin cumann named after him.

In Mexico City there stands a monument to a group of Irish and German soldiers who fought and died in the brutal Mexican-American war of 1846-1848.

In Mexico in the 1840s, Clifden man John Reilly led a band of Irish soldiers called The San Patricios, in an effort to help Mexico repulse a military invasion by the USA.