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".
Irish soldiers who died in World War I listed in new online database
A year of reckoning - Irish conscription during World War I
On This Day: Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, the Irish priest who saved thousands during WWII, died in 1963
How a promise helped a Belfast doctor survive a World War II Japanese POW camp
Churchill wanted Irish bombed from the air, refused Michael Collins' plea
Irish priest remembers role in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberation
Letters sent home to Ireland from World War I
On This Day: Irish MP Tom Kettle dies during Battle of the Somme
Sir John Gorman: Co Tyrone WWII hero's brave actions against the Germans
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