We started by telling the story of El Batallón de San Patricio(“Saint Patrick’s Battalion”), aka the San Patricios, Irish immigrants to the United States who fought on the ...

Americans celebrating Irish heritage on St. Patrick’s Day can do so by toasting the legendary 69th Infantry Regiment. “The Fighting Irish” embody the spirit behind today’s parades and parties, with ...

It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up ...

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." But his luck changed ... nearly all the rest would be killed by the war's end. George Edward Pickett was raised in ...

Tragedies of Kerry (1924) by Dorothy Macardle was the first publication on the civil war in the county ... Guard who wanted to keep the war going. In The Irish Republic (1937), a later book ...