Cork woman Mary Elmes is the first Irish person honored as “Righteous Among Nations” for her work saving Jewish children from the Nazi gas chambers during World War II.

New legislation would grant amnesty to former Irish troops who deserted and fought with the Allies during World War II. Upon their return home, these troops were called deserters and blacklisted.

Graffiti including swastikas was etched on tombstones on a plot in St. Finbarr’s Cemetery in Glasheen Road in Cork. The police in Cork are currently investigating the vandalism which is thought to have happened during the evening on Thursday, March 28.

Punching Nazi's may feel right but that does't mean it is right, some critics are grousing about Dropkick Murphys bassist Ken Casey, who allegedly came out swinging when confronted with an unwelcome far right fan at one of the band's recent gigs.

Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, an Irish priest who saved more than 6,500 people during World War II is being honored by the Irish State.

While working on my doctorate in the early 1970s, I had access to the manuscript of a memoir written by David Gray, US Minister (Ambassador) to Ireland from 1940 to 1947.  It was so distorted, it was not worth publishing, but it has now been published by the Royal Irish Academy under the title, A Yankee in De Valera’s Ireland.

Are there consequences for failing to tell the truth? That's the question that fact checkers in the media are asking themselves after GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's debut speech last week, and the claims he made about his marathon running past afterward.

'The Enigma of Frank Ryan,' a new film from Northern Ireland director Desmond Bell, takes a look at IRA activist Ryan, who collaborated with Nazi Germans after they sprang him from a Spanish jail. Dara Devaney plays the controversial Ryan.

The quiet grave in a small Catholic cemetery in Coram, Long Island contains the bodies of Bridget and Patrick Stuart Huston, her son.

A red and black Nazi flag has been removed from the back garden of a home in Bagenalstown, County Carlow, after locals expressed their disgust. However, a US flag remains flying outside the two story home.

The tragic tale of the Titanic was recruited by the Nazis as a propaganda vehicle. That's the  claim made by the author of the new book The Third Reich’s Celluloid War.

George Clooney has announced that he plans to write and direct an adaptation of Robert M Edsel’s book “The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History”. This is the true story of a group of art experts, chosen by the US Government, to retrieve artwork stolen by the Nazis.

Five thousand Irish soldiers who deserted the neutral Irish army to help aid the British in the fight against Hitler’s Germany in World War II returned to Ireland to face their lives as outcasts following the war.

The 65-year-old actress has been described as a "despicable person" after she made the remark about Pope Benedict XVI during an interview with fellow actor and filmmaker Bob Balaban on Saturday when she was discussing her 1995 film 'Dead Man Walking', Newsday reports.

Politician Gay Mitchell is wishing he bit his tongue back in 1998 when he compared abortion to the horrors that took place in Nazi concentration camps.