In reply to: Is it time to drop the "Irish" nickname? posted by ndoldtown
We need something more gentle, but still martial. Maybe the Templars. They were priests as well as knights, weren't they?
the Holy Land was to earn a living. They were mercenaries and they went where the jobs were. The leaders went in search of land and riches, and they found them. Read the history of the Crusades and you will learn that they were a very dark chapter in human history.