Irish neutrality in World War Two was a most extraordinary thing. The first RAF bomber pilot to be shot down and killed in 1939 was Willie Murphy from Cork. His navigator, Larry Slattery, from ...

More than 30,000 Irish soldiers who died during the First World War have been included in a new online database, The Irish Great War Dead Archive.

However, not all of those hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants were volunteer soldiers. In March of 1863, Congress passed a law that required most men to register for the draft.

THE IRISH SOLDIERS. Share full article. From the Richmond Enquirer. Nov. 29, 1863; Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from November 29, 1863, Page 2 Buy ...

It will grant an amnesty and immunity from prosecution to 5,000 Irish soldiers who fought with the Allies. One of those who avoided black-listing was a man who became known as arguably the ...

Among the Irish American Soldiers buried in the Soldier's Lot is Pvt. Bernard Trainor. Trainor was an Irish immigrant who came to New York during the Irish famine in the 1940s, Flynn said.

March 05, 2025 at 0:01am GMT. The history of Irish soldiers in the British armed forces is to be the focus of a new £13.6m plan to open two museums in Belfast and Enniskillen.. The UNTOLD ...