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 ...

In The Irish Times this Saturday ... Rural Hours is her first book. Chair of judges, Johanna Thomas-Corr, said: “Harriet Baker’s Rural Hours has made me excited about literary criticism ...

In September of 1861, Thomas Meagher ... Irish revolution, along with a promotion to Brigadier General for this new Irish Brigade. This brigade would soon blast its way into the pages of history.

Now firmly on the map for travellers who want to discover Ireland’s rich past, Waterford is bursting with history ... Thomas Francis Meagher Bar, named after the man responsible for the Irish ...

By contrast, Holt McDougal’s US history ... starve? Thomas Gallagher points out in Paddy’s Lament that during the first winter of famine, 1846-47, as perhaps 400,000 Irish peasants starved ...

Rachael Hood According to many, this gaol, or jail, gives its visitors one of the most unique looks into the darker side of Irish history ... including Thomas Francis Meagher and James Connolly ...

The inscription on the statue caught my attention: “Thomas Francis Meagher, 1823-1867: Irish ... history centre, which provided even more context about Meagher’s role in Montana and his enduring ...

At which point I had to explain gently that this was the very term republicans and much of Irish America were now using for the Great Famine of the late 1840s. So it makes excellent sense that Thomas ...

The Gala Dinner in the Granville Hotel on Saturday March 8, from 6.30pm to 10.30pm, will honour the life and legacy of Thomas Francis Meagher, a key figure in Irish history. Bookings at Eventbrite.ie.

See how many works of prose and poetry by popular Irish authors you can find in this short scene — and build a reading list ...