after a splendid career highlighted by the 1848 uprising and leading the Fighting 69th in the American Civil War. He was a beloved figure in Irish America. He was also friend of Lincoln ...

He was captured and sentenced to death, but was released following public backlash to the initial wave of executions and his American birth ... divisions of the Irish Civil War.

Perhaps the most well-known nativist movement arose in the decades before the Civil War. The American Party ... used ethnic stereotypes to depict Irish and German immigrants as national threats ...

On this day, Jan 2, 1920, recruitment began for the Black and Tans, Britain’s unofficial auxiliary army during the Irish War of Independence. The Black and Tans first arrived in Ireland on March ...

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 ...

At Fredericksburg, Pickett's men cut down the courageous "Irish brigade ... He distinguished himself in battle during the Mexican-American War and on the frontier, along the Texas border and ...

Mr Keenan was lecturing in English at the American University in Beirut when ... by various Islamic militias during the Lebanese civil war. Others included the British journalist John McCarthy ...