“The Fighting Irish” embody the spirit behind today’s parades and parties, with laurels from two dozen campaigns, including combat roles dating back to the Civil War ... Irish Brigade leads the 174th ...

Luckily, in 1851, Meagher made his escape and arrived in New York City the ... Sumter kicked off the Civil War—Meagher began recruiting Irishmen to form a new Irish brigade.

The No. 7 Fighting Irish (11-1 ... fought for the Union during the Civil War in what became called the Irish Brigade, including three regiments from New York." As noted by Notre Dame, the ...

A forgotten Civil War veteran who died without a proper burial is finally receiving recognition, thanks to two eighth-grade students in New York. Kendall Peruzzini and Mary McCormick spoke with ...

All the fatalities of the Irish Civil War have been listed for the first time in a major new book which sheds light on one of the defining episodes of Irish history. The landmark publication ...

On 6 August 1936, 88 years ago today ... accompanied by their Irish coach Patrick O’Connell, who, according to Porta, had returned home after the outbreak of the civil war.

A new research project into the Irish Civil War found the number of people who died in the conflict may have been overestimated. The Civil War lasted 11 months from 28 June 1922 to 24 May 1923 and ...

How many people were killed in the Irish Civil War? More than 100 years have passed since that conflict ended, but we may finally have a near definitive figure thanks to the first systematic ...

Formed in September of 1861, the brigade brought together five regiments and an artillery battery from New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. Almost all the soldiers were Irish or Irish-American.

The UCC Irish Civil War Fatalities Project, supported with funding from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and accompanied by a wide range of articles by Civil ...

In 1921, the War of Independence culminated in the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which Quill and his family opposed during the Irish Civil War. Mike Quill participated ... he emigrated to New York. By 1929, ...