American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

or the political violence precipitating the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—the subject of his Burns Scholar Lecture on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the Burns Library Thompson Room. A collaboration between ...

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — March is Irish American Heritage Month, and on Monday, a special ceremony was held in Lackawanna County to honor two civil war veterans of Irish descent.

While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...

When the American Civil War ended in April 1865, a group of former northern solders, mostly Irish Americans, formed small units intent on raiding Canada. Rumours reached New Brunswick that the ...

In the century following the Irish Civil War (1922-1923), monuments were erected across the country to honour those who lost their lives and different causes for which they died. There is nothing ...

At Fredericksburg, Pickett's men cut down the courageous "Irish brigade ... He distinguished himself in battle during the Mexican-American War and on the frontier, along the Texas border and ...

Perhaps the most well-known nativist movement arose in the decades before the Civil War. The American Party ... used ethnic stereotypes to depict Irish and German immigrants as national threats ...

Mathew Brady's legacy is synonymous with the photographic legacy of the Civil ... Irish parents in Warren County, New York, in 1823. Brady was 15 years old when he met William Page, the American ...

Meanwhile, the Irish Republican Army of 1919 was largely ... Dalton played a decisive role at the outbreak of the civil war in securing the artillery from the British with which the National ...

‘No Middle Path: the Civil War in Kerry’ offers an engrossing account of some of the darkest days in Irish history Historian and Author Owen O'Shea with his latest book 'No Middle ...