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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘The ceremony was one of the most touching that I ever beheld’, recalled John Fortescue, the librarian at Windsor Castle, describing the moment on 12 June 1922 when King George V received back the ...

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 ...

It is part of our history that was buried during the Northern Troubles. For centuries, tens of thousands of Irish soldiers travelled the world fighting for the British Army. They carried the standard ...

This Sunday is Remembrance Sunday, when we may choose to remember the Irish dead of the two world wars, or not. Whereas once Ireland shied in horror at any commemoration of these wars, they are now ...