U2 singer Bono issued a call to “stop war” ahead of performing Sunday Bloody Sunday at the Ivors award ceremony. The ...

That day’s editorial from the Irish News stated: “It is natural to feel relief and even jubilation at the knowledge that the long nightmare of war is ended. “For the first time in history ...

In Lisburn, the band of the Royal Irish Regiment will lead a beating retreat through the town, while Derry will mark its own unique link with the end of the second World War – the surrender of ...

It was held in the grounds of the Irish Military Museum in Co Meath ... to starvation in what was known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. Hundreds of cars set off in cavalcade from the ...

Unlike in Britain, where the entire country had been caught up in the war effort and as a result had great admiration for the returning soldiers, the Irish public had little understanding of the ...

Ireland had been under nominal English control since the 1100s but across much of the island local Gaelic lords continued to ...

Daniel Hough, a Tipperary man, was the first man killed in the US Civil War ... that he was an Irish immigrant who had enlisted in Battery D of the 1st United States Artillery Regiment.

While Dublin was thrown into turmoil during Easter Week 1916, the fighting in World War One rumbled on. While Irish soldiers and Irish regiments ... gas still inflicted great damage along British ...

Article V of the Anglo-Irish Treaty is gradually usurping that place in public attention held (at intervals) by Article XII. Mr Winston Churchill referred to the Fifth Article in his Budget Speech ...

It does make me wonder, does his hostility stem from losing the Cold War? Putin has declared the collapse of the old Soviet Union after the fall of the Berlin Wall to be the great tragedy of the ...