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Irish in other Wars and ArmiesThe
Irish in other Wars and Armies
St. Patrick's Day, 2003 at Camp Eagle, Kuwait:
Members of the Royal Irish Regiment, 16th Air Assault Brigade, celebrate St.Patrick's Day at Camp Eagle, in the run-up to war against Iraq..
UNITED STATES
Ireland and the American Revolution:
Irish Immigrants who Fought for America's Freedom
Commodore John Barry in the Revolutionary War:
The U.S. Navy's Irish-born Founding Father
Timothy Murphy, Frontier Rifleman:
Revolutionary War Marksman at Saratoga
Not All Irishmen Sided With the Patriots
Davy Crockett's Valiant Irish Dozen
Thomas Francis Meagher's Irish Brigade
Parent Unit of the 'Fighting 69th' New York Regiment
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The Irish Brigade Monument at Antietam
Colonel Michael Corcoran's Irish Legion
Corporal Michael Corcoran's Forgotten Medal of Honor
Irish-born Medal of Honor Recipients
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Detail of The Irish Brigade Monument at Antietam |
The Irish at The Little Bighorn
7th Cavalry Troopers Who Fell with Custer
An Irish-born Officer Who Died with Custer
Named After the 7th Cavalry's Irish Marching Song
Gunnery Sgt. Daniel Joseph Daly, U.S. Marine Corps
Double Medal of Honor Winner in China and Haiti
The Fighting 69th in World War I
'Wild Bill' Donovan, Fr. Francis Duffy, and Joyce Kilmer
Fr. John Patrick Washington, U.S. Army Chaplain
Son of Irish Immigrants Earns Immortality in World War II
The U.S. Army in Northern Ireland During World War II
The U.S. Navy in Northern Ireland during World War II
The Americans in Ulster, 1942-1945
From GI Brides to Visits by Ike and Eleanor Roosevelt
The 165th (69th) Infantry in World War II
Makin Island, Saipan and Okinawa
America's Most Decorated Combat Soldier
Irish Dead in World War II Europe
Remains of 18 Irish-born U.S. Soldiers Repatriated After War
Soldiers and Civilians in America's 'Forgotten War'
Irish Men and Women Listed on the Vietnam War Memorial
Irish America's Heroes of 9/11
CANADA
Irish Nationalists Threaten British North America
Fenian Brotherhood Routs the Canadian Militia in Ontario
A Canadian Perspective on the Fenian Raids:
Attacks Transformed 'British North America' into Nation of Canada
Irish-Canadian Contribution in War of 1812, WW I & II
Irish-Canadians in World War I and II
MEXICO
Mexico's Legendary Hero was an Irishman
Lt. Col. Hugo O'Conor in New Spain (Mexico):
An Irish Officer Guards Spain's New World Frontiers
Irish Settlements in Mexican Texas
The San Patricio (Saint Patrick's) Battalion
Irishmen Who Switched Sides During the Mexican-American War
Mark Day's Site on the Irishmen Who Died for Mexico
SOUTH AMERICA
An Annotated Bibliography of the Irish Presence
ARGENTINA
The Irish-born Founder of Argentina's Navy
BOLIVIA
General Francis Burdett O'Connor
Bolivia's Minister of War from Co. Cork
BRAZIL
Eyewitness to Irish Tragedy in Rio de Janeiro
CHILE & PERU
Garland, O'Higgins and MacKenna
The Chilean Legacy of three Irish Military Engineers
The Irish Engineer Who Became Spain's Viceroy in Peru
Ambrosio's Son Leads Chile to Independence from Spain
William R. Grace, "The Pirate of Peru"
Irish Entrepreneur Benefits from Payoff of Peru's War Debt
Their Involvement in 1879 Chilean-Peruvian War
PARAGUAY
Eliza Lynch, First Lady of Paraguay (free registration required)
Cork Woman's Ill-fated Alliance with 19th Century Dictator
VENEZUELA
Simon Bolivar's Hard-Luck Irish Legion
Simon Bolivar, the South American Liberator
Idealistic Venezuelan Leader who Inspired the Irish
EUROPE
IRELAND
The Irish Defense Forces Website:
Serving Ireland and U.N. Peacekeeping Operations
Irish Armed Forces on UN Service
Peacekeeping from the Belgian Congo to Lebanon and East Timor
Ireland Reacts to the Boer War
Pride in the North, Division in the South
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
World War I Ireland in W.B. Yeats' Poem
Francis Ledwidges's Long Road Home (free registration required)
Co. Meath Village Remembers a Soldier-Poet Killed in Flanders
Seamus Heaney Salutes a Fellow Poet
The Memorial Gardens at Islandbridge
Ireland's Last Great War Veteran
Royal Irish Rifleman Tommy Shaw, Dead at 102
The Story behind the Famous World War I Song
Islandbridge War Memorial, Dublin
Sir Edwin Lutyens's Tribute to WW I Dead
Ireland's Involvement in World War II:
Neutral, But Neutral for Whom?
Nazi Bombers Target Northern Ireland, 1941
Aftermath of 1941 Blitz Bombing
1,100 Dead, 100,000 Homeless in Belfast
Ireland's Merchant Seamen in WW II (free registration required)
Battling Weather and U-Boats to Keep Sea Lanes Open
Nazi Submarines Sunk in Irish Sea
Irish People in the Second World War:
An Irish Heroine and Hero
Kerry-born Hero of Antarctic Expeditions
AUSTRIA
St. Patrick's Day in Vienna, 1766:
Irish Officers in Habsburg Service Celebrate March 17th
BRITAIN
Queen Victoria's Tribute to Irish Bravery against the Boers
Irish Men and Military Service:
Understanding the Irish who Served England in World War I
A Southern Irish Division in World War I
Northern Irish Division in World War I
The 10th (Irish) Division at Gallipoli, 1915:
A Mismanaged Assault in the Dardanelles
Bagpipes and Bravery in World War I
Concealed for Three Years in a French Cupboard
Dungarvan Museum Society, Co. Waterford:
Five Famous Irish Regiments of World War I
Remembering 'The Devil's Own' from 1793 through Disbandment in 1922
From India and South Africa to the Somme and Passchendaele
Athy Heritage Centre, Co. Kildare:
World War I's Cost in One Irish County
Irish Veterans Found a Country Utterly Changed
Co. Down Museum Remembers Ireland's Sacrifice
The Island of Ireland Peace Park at Messines, Belgium:
Honoring Ireland's Northern and Southern Great War Dead
Irish-born Ace Pilots in the Royal Flying Corps
Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross:
Britain's Highest Award for Acts of Gallantry
Proud "Paddys" in World War II
165,000 from Irish Republic in British Forces
Lt. Maureen O'Sullivan, SOE Agent (free registration required)
Dublin Woman's Heroics in Occupied France
Churchill's Irish Minister of Information
Master of British Propaganda from Tipperary
Blair Mayne, Special Air Service Hero (free registration required)
Ulsterman Wreaks Havoc on Rommel's Afrika Corps
Ireland's Last Winner of the Victoria Cross
Northern Irish Regiment in WWII and Korea
The
Royal Irish Regiment, formed 1992
Merger of Royal Irish Rangers and Ulster Defense Regiment
Royal Irish Celebrate March 17, 2003 at Home
FRANCE
Irish Regiments Save the French Army in Italy
The Irish Save the Day for France in Belgium
Fontenoy 1745, by Emily Lawless:
Poetry Celebrating Irish Role in French Victory over English
Battle of Culloden, Scotland in 1746:
Irish in French Service Support Scots against English
Irish Brigade Officers in the American Revolution:
Dillon's Regiment Against the English at Savannah, 1779
Raised to Invade Ireland, Decimated in European Campaigns
Napoleon's Legion Irlandaise, 1803-1815
With Names of Commandants and Bibliography
Wild Geese Heritage Museum and Library
Galway-based Tribute to Irish in French Service
GERMANY
A German Effort to Recruit Irish-born Prisoners-of-War
RUSSIA
A Limerickman in 18th Century Russia
Descendants of Exiled Earls in Russia and Poland
SPAIN
Irish in the Spanish Civil War:
Connolly Column versus O'Duffy Volunteers
AFRICA
Irish in British Service against the Zulus, 1879
Irish Regiments in the Boer War
1,500 Irish Dead in Defense of Britain's Empire
Tom Crean Earns a VC against the Boers (free registration required)
Dublin-born Doctor Tends the British Wounded Under Fire
The Boer Republics' Irish Allies
Major MacBride Leads Irish Commandos Against the British
Co. Mayo Origins of the Transvaal Irish Brigade
Keeping Order in the Cape and Natal
Bagpipes and Wolfhounds in the SANDF
ASIA
INDIA
Birthplace of the Dublin (Madras) and Munster (Bengal) Fusiliers
IRAQ
War is Serious Business, and the Irish Wage it with Humor
THE IRISH IN FOREIGN SERVICE
(General Web Sites)
The Honourable Society of the Irish Brigade
Irish Soldiers in Every Cause But Their Own
World War I to Vietnam, With a Tipperary Emphasis
Ireland's Exiled Soldiers, With U.S. Civil War Emphasis
Compiled by:
Brian McGinn
Alexandria, Virginia
August, 2002
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