A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

During the 19th century, around 40% of the British Army comprised soldiers from across the island of Ireland. Nowhere was the Irish influence in the British military more evident than at the ...

During the 19th Century around 40% of the British Army was made up of soldiers from across the island of Ireland. Private James Duffy Their role in World War One is well known, but they also ...

“The British Army came to Ireland in the 19th century to find soldiers, because Ireland didn't have an industrial revolution, it didn't have an agricultural revolution and so there was lots of ...