Somme, 11 September 1916 - The extraordinary achievement of Irish troops in seizing the French villages of Guillemont and ...

B Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment (1 R IRISH) have officially taken over from I Company, 2nd Battalion, The Rifles (2 RIFLES) as the British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI) ...

Belfast, 17 August 1916 - Pleas for recruits to join the British army have been made across Ireland in recent days. Official sources have said that the current rate of recruitment is not sufficient to ...

Ten men from Irish regiments who died in the first World War and whose graves have been located will be honoured next month. Rededication services will take place in France and Belgium following ...

The 69th Regiment, known as 'The Fighting Irish,' was founded on December 21, 1849. In November 2019, ahead of its 170th anniversary, a special Irish whiskey was unveiled to commemorate the iconic ...

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Source: The Civil War Society's "Encyclopedia of the Civil War. There is perhaps no other ethnic group so closely identified with the Civil War years and the immediate aftermath of the war as Irish ...

A former soldier has spoken of his pride at working on a tribute to Irish soldiers at the UK’s National Memorial Arboretum - which will see a permanent and large-scale map of Ireland viewable from the ...

New York’s Fighting Irish are making a new splash — on the rocks. A non-profit historical trust dedicated to the famed 69th Infantry Regiment debuted its own authentic Irish Whiskey this week in bars ...

Gilt button from Dr Spencer’s 18th Royal Irish Regiment officer’s tunic, circa 1860. Safely stored among the collection of the Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust is Dr William Isaac Spencer’s 18th Royal Irish ...