Most Irish Catholics were active in local militia units and were notable in regular ... of oppression and misgovernment.” When the Great War ended, bishops, clergy, and most of the Catholic ...

Colours were bestowed by the king to the regiments of his army ... at Windsor that day—had won the Great War, handing back the Colours embodied their Irish defeat. The ceremony was a powerful ...

"A mere footnote in the Irish story, but a huge chapter in Afrikaner history, are the heroes of the Irish Regiments who joined ... involvement in the Anglo-Boer War According to the United ...