We started by telling the story of El Batallón de San Patricio(“Saint Patrick’s Battalion”), aka the San Patricios, Irish ...

According to the 2023 U.S. Census, more than 30 million people, or about 9% of Americans, claim Irish ancestry, with over 117 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

His latest venture, The Informer, is a rare look at the Irish Civil War inspired by the 1925 novel by Liam O’Flaherty. “I had always wanted to do a play about the Civil War because there haven ...

It was summed up in a memorandum authored by Seán Lemass in 1944; the Irish needed exceptionally ... unlike so many of the Civil War generation who, psychologically, were scarred by what they ...

Also, DeSales University's class of 2025 theater majors will stage "Robin Hood," and Reading Community Players will present "Play On!" ...

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.