
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".

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The anti-fascist fighter from the Cork/Kerry border
On This Day: World War I air ace Edward “Mick” Mannock was killed in action in 1918
Hitler’s nephew, Willy, fought against him in the US Navy in WWII
The German airman who crash-landed in Wexford during WWII and fell in love with an Irish woman
The Monaghan man who filmed the devastation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
The Irish nun who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb
The Irish World War II shame - Irish soldiers faced hostility after arriving home
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