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".
The Irishman who claims to have saved Adolf Hitler’s life
Discovery of Irish airman lost at sea during the Second World War
On This Day: Five brave Sullivan brothers killed on same day during WWII
Online archive names over 30,000 Irish soldiers lost in World War I
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
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