For generations Irish and Irish Americans have believed the “Nine Famous Irishmen” story, but alas, it strays far from the ...

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 ...

Notre Dame, after all, was more Irish American – with an emphasis on ... surrendered in some of the bloodiest fighting of the Civil War. The Irish Brigade had distinguished itself in the ...

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 execution of anti-Treaty IRA fighters by the new Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War remains one of the most infamous aspects of the 11-month conflict. The executions began a century ...

DESPITE the American Civil War ending nearly 160 years ago – there was still one place in the world where the Confederate South was seemingly alive and well. Welcome to the town of Santa ...

Mathew Brady's legacy is synonymous with the photographic legacy of the Civil ... Irish parents in Warren County, New York, in 1823. Brady was 15 years old when he met William Page, the American ...

Documentary telling the epic and often challenging story of the origins, conflict and legacy of the civil war that took place ... most controversial chapters in Irish history.