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The Irish World War II shame - Irish soldiers faced hostility after arriving home


Bernard Kelly's new book: Returning Home This week we're going to give you a break from the mind-numbing economics and politics of the euro crisis and the re ...

May 24, 2012 by John Spain 48
Flt Sgt Denis Copping

Irish-based family of missing WW2 pilot hope to find his body in Egyptian desert - VIDEO


Members of the extended family of Flt. Sgt. Denis Copping, who are based in Kinsale, County Cork, have renewed hope of finding the pilot, who went missing in June 1942 after his plane crashed in Egypt. ...

May 21, 2012 by DARA KELLY 2

Granny refuses to pay household levy and likens Irish conditions to World War II times


An 81-year-old Irish grandmother is leading the fight against the government imposed household levy – after describing conditions in Ireland as akin to the Second World War. ...

March 26, 2012 by PATRICK COUNIHAN 12

Irish woman saved Jewish brothers and countless children from Auschwitz in World War II


A new exhibit in Dublin, the Holocaust in Europe, tells the story of Cork native Mary Elmes and how she helped save a number of Jewish people from being sent to the Auschwitz death camp. ...

February 02, 2012 by KERRY O'SHEA 1
Arrested Jews in Jasionowka - Ireland's neutrality in WWII deemed morally bankrupt

Irish Minister says Ireland’s neutrality on Hitler was morally bankrupt


Ireland’s Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, has apologized for the way the 10,000 Irishmen who fought Hitler were treated after World War II. ...

January 27, 2012 by CATHY HAYES 64

World War II Spitfire guns 'like-new' after 70 years in an Irish bog


After 70 years of being buried in the highlands of Donegal, machine guns that were attached to the remains of a World War II fighter plane are still in working order. ...

November 13, 2011 by ANTOINETTE KELLY 7

Irishman leads recovery of $230million worth of silver from World War II ship - VIDEO


Irishman Andrew Craig has helped locate a silver haul worth over $230million dollar off the Atlantic Coast. ...

September 27, 2011 by CATHAL DERVAN 4
Missing remains of Irish American World War II vet finally laid to rest

Missing remains of Irish American World War II vet finally laid to rest


After being killed in a bloody, WWII battle in Süggerath, Germany that took the lives of 2,000 others, the 66 year-old skeletal remains of 23 year-old Private First Class Edward L. O’Toole have finally been buried in San Francisco ...

July 20, 2011 by JORDANA KOZUPSKY 2

70th anniversary: Belfast remembers World War II Blitz - PHOTOS


As the 70th anniversary of the Belfast Blitz approaches the city prepares to remember all those who perished. ...

March 23, 2011 by MOLLY MULDOON 2

Chief US spy in Ireland during World War II has died


Martin S. Quigley, a film rep and spy sent to gather intelligence on Ireland during World War II, died, at the age of 93, of a heart ailment on February 5 in his West Hartford, Conn. Home, according to the Boston Globe. ...

February 14, 2011 by CATHY HAYES 7
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