By 1972, Cahalane was also one of the Irish Republican Army’s most successful international gunrunners, ferrying rifles and ...

As the United States invaded Mexico in 1846, Los Patricios, a group of immigrants, took up arms for Mexico to defend their ...

The soldiers of Saint Patrick’s Battalion are regarded as national heroes in Mexico and Ireland. M arch 17 is, of course, St. Patrick’s Day (known in Gaelic as Lá Fhéile Pá ...

St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green: green clothes, green shamrocks, green beer and green rivers.

Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green ... for the Irish Citizen Army’s flag. In 1934, Irish politician ...

NEW YORK (AP) — If it’s March, and it’s green, it must be St. Patrick ... In fact, it was among Irish American communities that the day became the celebration it is, from its roots as ...

Over a century later, in 1762, homesick Irish soldiers serving in the British ... The mythical plant, along with the color green, later became a symbol of Ireland's push for independence from ...

One place in history where you might be surprised to see a green and gold ... during the Mexican-American war. As Taylor’s army reached the Rio Grande, many German and Irish immigrants began ...

The Shamrock, painted with "Shamrock Green" paint will greet parade ... and the tradition of parading originated from Irish American soldiers a few decades later. The legend goes that Patrick ...

Are you ready for a cold pint of Guinness, bangers and mash while wearing a giant green hat ... a priest in St. Augustine and an Irish soldier, The Washington Post reported.

Are you ready for a cold pint of Guinness, bangers and mash while wearing a giant green hat ... a priest in St. Augustine and an Irish soldier, The Washington Post reported.