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 ...

or the political violence precipitating the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—the subject of his Burns Scholar Lecture on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the Burns Library Thompson Room. A collaboration between ...

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 ...

This they steadily did and the Irish Volunteers improved their organisation and increased their numbers throughout that year, albeit from a small base. But the circumstances of war also threw up ...

Woodenbridge, 21 September 1914 - John Redmond, the leader of the Irish ... Volunteers having travelled overnight from London. He told the Volunteers: ‘Remember this country is in a state of war ...

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 ...

On 29th April 1916, a crowd of curious Dubliners watched as a large group of men in the uniform of Irish Volunteers was led ... Republicans led to a bitter Civil War (1922-1923), which was won ...

When the American Civil War ended in April 1865, a group of former northern solders, mostly Irish Americans ... there are about 1,500 of them. 1,000 Volunteers & some companies of the 16th ...