Irish Guards
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![Irish Guardsman in The First World War at the Battle of Pilckem Ridge 1917](/Images/godic/202501/21/Irish_Guards_at_the_Battle_of_Pilckem_Ridge_1916_IWM_Q_26360416.jpg")
![Irish Guards Recce Platoon operating a Scimitar Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle (light tank) in the Iraq War 2003](/Images/godic/202501/21/Irish_Scimitar_Iraq0416.JPEG")
![Foot Guards, wearing bearskins, march to the Cenotaph on 12 June 2005 for a service of remembrance for the Combined Irish Regiments Old Comrades Association annual parade. Their uniform buttons are in groups of four, identifying these soldiers as Irish Guards](/Images/godic/202501/21/Bearskin.cenotaph.london.arp0416.jpg")
The Irish Guards (IG), part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army and, together with the Royal Irish Regiment, it is one of the two Irish infantry regiments still remaining in the British Army.
The Irish Guards recruit in Northern Ireland and the Irish neighbourhoods of major British cities. Although restrictions in the Republic of Ireland's Defence Act make it illegal to induce, procure or persuade enlistment of any citizen of the Republic of Ireland into the military of another state, people from the Republic do enlist in the regiment.