This December, join Dr. Damian Shiels for a comprehensive three-week online course titled "Researching the American Civil War." Explore the remarkable stories of Irish bravery, sacrifice, and ...

The Irish Government has launched a new digital mapping project, listing all of the civilian and combatant fatalities of the Irish Civil War. Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and ...

Medieval Irish folklore shows the Morrígan in an astonishing array of forms including an eel, a wolf, a cow, and an old woman ...

For Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Eunan O’Halpin, his fondness for reading print newspapers mirrors his approach to scholarly work, delving into bureaucratic archives of diplomatic, ...

It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up ...

Fueled by centuries of oppression, Irish immigrants formed the core of George Washington’s forces and helped win American liberty. As historian Phillip Thomas Tucker explains in “How the Irish Won the ...

Following the first convening of the Dáil Éireann in 1919, two years of fighting ensued between British forces and Irish republican forces; the Irish War of Independence. In 1921, the Anglo-Irish ...