It’s this methodology that helped spark O’Halpin’s interest in studying similarities between Ireland and Afghanistan’s struggles to cope with anomalous, British-imposed and maintained borders, for ...

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 ...

In the century following the Irish Civil War (1922-1923), monuments were erected across the country to honour those who lost their lives and different causes for which they died. There is nothing ...

the War of Independence and the Irish Civil War for the Irish Film Institute’s Irish Independence film collection was another significant event during the Decade of Commemorations. Having this ...

After she laid a wreath at a memorial to the five Free State soldiers killed by the IRA.In Knocknagoshel Ms McDonald said the political descendants of all sides in the Civil War need to be able to ...

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 ...

Join the IrishCentral Book Club this April as we read the award-winning bestseller "Wounds - A Memoir of War and Love." ...

In September of 1861, Thomas Meagher began recruiting Irishmen to form a new Irish brigade. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day (known in Gaelic as Lá Fhéile Pádraig, i.e. “the Day of the ...