World Wars
Irish history and interest stories surround World War I and World War II. The First and Second World Wars continue to be remembered and rightly so, "lest we forget".
Albert F. Coyle: The forgotten Irish American hero of the Holocaust
The German war cemetery in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains
My grandfather witnessed peace at Christmas from a WWI trench
On This Day: Easter Rising leader Joseph Mary Plunkett was born in Dublin
On This Day: Five brave Sullivan brothers killed on same day during WWII
On This Day: Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, the Irish priest who saved thousands during WWII, died in 1963
How the weather forecast from a Mayo lighthouse saved the D-Day invasion
On This Day: Irish MP Tom Kettle dies during Battle of the Somme
WATCH: Incredible newsreel shows Derry boy singing for a Canadian soldier in 1945
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