The history of Irish soldiers in the British armed forces is to be the focus of a new £13.6m plan to open two museums in Belfast and Enniskillen. The UNTOLD: Stories of the Irish in the British ...

The history of Irish involvement in the British Army will be told in a new museum planned across two sites in Belfast and Enniskillen. The £13.6million project will trace the 350-year story of ...

A new museum hoping to tell the 350-year history of Irish soldiers and their families in the British Army has been awarded ... Royal Irish Regiment Museum, Collections and Archives of the Royal ...

"We are already surprised at the number of people from a range of traditions who have discovered ancestral and family histories amongst Irish regiments in the British Army".

Colours were bestowed by the king to the regiments of ... retreat from the new Irish Free State: military service for the Crown was ending in these counties; the British army, engaged in a post ...

Disbanded regiments from the south of Ireland will also be a focus of the new museums. Chair of UNTOLD, Hugh Crossey, said: “Stories of the Irish in the British Army will hopefully inspire ...