If you want to get a ground-level view of history, this is the kind of material that offers ... or the political violence precipitating the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—the subject of his Burns ...

As a teenager, he was an apprentice to the Irish American photographer ... For the first year of the Civil War, O’Sullivan worked with Brady, and then in 1862 became assistant to colleague ...

SIPTU’s early history is heavily influenced by the ICA ... blue denotes monuments which commemorate the Irish Civil War only. Special thanks to Michael Pegum and his Irish War Memorials site.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

Here is a handy top ten primer on Brian Boru, the heroic Irish figure of his era. 1. Brian Boru was a deeply Christian king. He died on Good Friday, April 23rd, 1014, at the Battle of Clontarf.

At Fredericksburg, Pickett's men cut down the courageous "Irish brigade ... nearly all the rest would be killed by the war's end. George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond, Virginia, the ...