British-imposed and maintained borders, for example, 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 ...

Erskine Childers was born in England, educated at private school and Cambridge University and served in the British Army in the Boer War before becoming a committed supporter of Irish independence.

For generations Irish and Irish Americans have believed the “Nine Famous Irishmen” story, but alas, it strays far from the ...

During the South African War of 1899-1902 ... beginning with the Irish Volunteers before the British army. Dalton rose rapidly in the IRA and carried out the daring but failed raid on Mountjoy ...

British Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson ... often considered the official start of the Irish Civil War. After shelling and the storming of the building by National Army troops, the IRA ...

The Irish in the Resistance, by Clodagh Finn and John Morgan, chronicles Ireland's role in the French Resistance ...

All the while, the influence of John Redmond and his Irish Parliamentary Party was on the wane. Their difficulties were almost all war-induced. It didn’t help that the British War Office ...

Chamberlain hoped that if these matters were dealt with, Anglo-Irish relations would improve and Éire would assist Britain if a war broke out.

The Glencree German War Cemetery in the small village ... a British Army barracks in the early 1800s as the British attempted to contain Irish rebels in the wake of the 1798 Rebellion.

In the end, however, Grayling offers an unequivocal judgement on the British and American air forces that bombed both Germany and Japan. "The area-bombing campaigns of the second World War were as ...