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".
She took the reading on her 21st birthday and the D-Day landings were delayed
A disused Wicklow quarry holds the graves of 134 Germans who died on Irish soil
The most famous song about Tipperary was first written about Connemara
The barefoot Dublin boy who tried to warn Britain about Egypt's coming revolution
German U-boat landed 28 rescued sailors in Kerry and Britain doubted Irish neutrality
Britain's greatest flying ace in World War II was an Irishman
Hitler’s revenge on an Irish village - three girls died
The German airman who crash-landed in Wexford during WWII and fell in love with an Irish woman
The Shamrock Children: German refugees who found shelter in Ireland after WWII
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