War & The Military
Army lists, memorial locations and events, Irish soldiers in World War I and II and Vietnam, and the Irish civil war: Any links related to the Irish in wars throughout the world or on home soil will feature here.
A Short History of the 9th Battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps. (Formerly the "North Cork Militia").
"King James' Irish Army List", a book, is a singular mass of family history and information illustrating the lineage, honours and achievements of families connected with Ireland by birth, rank, title or alliance which took the author over 50 years to compile.
This flickr set commemorates the thirty-one Jesuit chaplains of the Irish Province who served in World War One. They served on the battlefields of France, Belgium, Egypt and Mesopotamia.
The War Room is designed to provide a source of information about some aspects of the Second World War.
T3699 The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. Sourced from the Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. List of American prisoners in Canada released on parole by the British in 1776.
A list of men from Carlow and Laois involved in the Irish National Volunteers in 1914, discovered by a local historian.
The website rovides historical information and items of interest about Irish soldiers of the American Civil War, circa, 1861-5. The primary focus of these pages centres around the officers and men who served with the Union Army's famed "Irish Brigade".
The Irish Pensioners of William III's Huguenot Regiments, 1702. From Huguenot Society of London Proceedings, Vol. 6, No. 3, Nov. 1899.
List of grave locations in Northern Ireland for those who are holders of the Victoria Cross.
Ulster Ancestry is a series of free pages which you can use for your research purposes. These have been sorted by date and detail the document type for your convenience.
Irish men and women whose names are on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The 28th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry website has been dedicated to keeping the memory of the original regiment alive. Includes rosters.
James Durney chronicles the history of Irish citizens and diaspora in one of the 20th Centuries most brutal wars, the Vietnam War. With first hand accounts of some of the harrowing battles of the war, James has unfurled a fascinating lost history of the Irish.
"Adventurers for land in Ireland." From "Irish Pedigrees" by John O'Hart, Vol. 2.
Free resource for Irish ancestry, genealogy and family history information. Tens of thousands of free available records online.
The Mayo Peace Park and Garden of Remembrance, remembers and commemorates the Mayo military men and women who died in worldwide conflicts, on UN service and Gardai in the course of their official duty within the state.
How to find and use military records. "Modern Ireland has an army, air corps and navy. Ireland also participates in the United Nations. Ireland provides for a total army force of 13,000, in 1967 there were 8,211 soldiers, including 1,109 officers."
Directories, census records, death records, military records, names, and passenger lists.
Soldiers of the Irish Brigade are honoured at Antietam. Includes poetry, articles, and photography.
"The land of the Shamrock, as on other fields, contributed its quota on the strongly contested ground." Colonel Joseph Newton Brown of the 14th South Carolina, a veteran of the Pickett/Pettigrew Charge, writing of the battle of Gettysburg.
This website is dedicated to the memory of the men of the Royal Irish Constabulary (1816-1922) with information on this force, illustrations of equipment, medals, photographs, and documents.
The Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) is a membership based grass roots organisation. Anyone who agrees with the basic aims of the IAWM is entitled to join.
These gardens are one of the most famous memorial gardens in Europe. They are dedicated to the memory of 49,400 Irish soldiers who died in the 1914-1918 war. The names of all the soldiers are contained in the beautifully illustrated Harry Clarke manuscripts in the granite bookrooms in the gardens.
Covering topics such as the Poor laws, the Great Famine, fisheries, war, and photography.
County Wicklow is a county on the east coast of Ireland between County Dublin to the north and County Wexford to the south. The County of Wicklow is named after it’s principal town Wicklow.
The names of the Wicklow men were provided by Dr Ruán O'Donnell. They directly relate to his recent book titled "The Rebellion in Wicklow 1798" which contains over 440 pages. It was published by the Irish Academic Press in Dublin, 1998 ISBN 0 716 526 94 8.
The 1798 Rebellion was the most widespread of all the Irish Rebellions. Eleven counties in Ulster, Leinster and Connacht rose against English rule over six months in 1798, leaving 30,000 dead. 'The United Irishmen' were inspired by the revolutionary ideas of the 1789 French Revolution.
A general resource place for all things Waterford genealogy, including censuses, gravestone transcriptions, land records, military records, church records, and newspaper extracts.
General resource page including cemetery records, church records, censuses, military records, and photographs.
General resource page for Co. Tyrone. Includes cemetery records, church records, censuses, headstones, military records, and newspaper extracts.
General resource page for all things County Tyrone with a vast array of information. Includes biographies, censuses, emigration records, letters, muster rolls and military records, and ships passenger lists - and much, much more.
The 1798 Rebellion was one of the most traumatic periods in recent Irish history. While documentary evidence for the majority of participants and victims is patchy there are three lists of c. 8,300 people from this period, which were published between 1798-1800.
All is not clean-cut between North and South. There is a moderately soft lining to both coats of steel. Many well-to-do Protestants prefer to live in the South and some prosperous Catholics prefer the North. The intellectual and artistic, who do not care for politics, tend Southward. People who are interested less in their bank accounts than in sporting or intellectual surroundings forget the “love and loyalty†on which the North prides itself.
John Barry was born in a modest thatched cottage in 1745 at Ballysampson on Our Lady's Island, which is part of Tacumshin Parish in County Wexford, Ireland. Wexford, at the southeasternmost part of Ireland, has always had a strong maritime tradition. Yet Barry's father was a poor tenant farmer who was evicted by his British landlord. The family was forced to relocate to the village of Rosslare.
The term Scots-Irish or Scotch-Irish came into vogue during the mid-nineteenth century, when The Great Hunger drove thousands of Irish Catholic immigrants to the United States . Protestant Americans whose ancestors had come from Ireland, usually from the province of Ulster, began to use the term Scots-Irish for themselves. Despite the many generations of their families that may have lived in Ireland before emigrating to America, and some had been there for more than two centuries, they did not want to be associated with the persecuted and vilified Irish Catholics. The actual point of this new racial designation was, "Yes, we are from Ireland, but we aren't Catholic." The fact that the Celtic Scots originated in Ireland makes this Scots-Irish label all the more meaningless, but this designation, born in prejudice, is now ingrained in genealogical nomenclature.
The 1641 Depositions (Trinity College Dublin, MSS 809-841) are witness testimonies mainly by Protestants, but also by some Catholics, from all social backgrounds, concerning their experiences of the 1641 Irish rebellion. The testimonies document the loss of goods, military activity, and the alleged crimes committed by the Irish insurgents, including assault, stripping, imprisonment and murder.
"This is Ireland's only comprehensive assembly of public service and commercial road transport. Even the humblest vehicles are noteworthy; many are the sole extant examples of once familiar types; several others are very rare and some are unique. Portraying the Golden Age of commercials, the collection includes some 30 marques, more than half of them now demised. All four Irish commercial vehicle builders are represented."
This is a collection of images of murals from Northern Ireland, principally West Belfast, Republican and Loyalist, painted during the recent period of Troubles. The images are records which include historical representation, political standpoints, community concerns, forms of ideological address. They range from overtly political declaration, to brutal depictions of the conflict, to humour and irony.
List of over 7000 documents related to the victims of the Northern Ireland conflict, from 1969 to 2001; transcriptions and documents.
Commentary and source material on the troubles in Northern Ireland. Sponsored by the University of Ulster; 1968 - present, transcriptions and commentary.
Agreement reached in the multi-party negotiations on 10 April, 1998.
On Thursday, November 26, 1998, Tony Blair made history by becoming the first British Prime Minister ever to address the Irish Parliament. That Parliament had been created 80 years earlier in open defiance of the British government which Blair now headed. Ireland had won its independence from Great Britain after a bloody insurrection in the early 1920s, marking the beginning of decades of intense animosity and outright violence. In this speech, Blair recalls his own Irish roots and declares an end to more than 800 years of enmity between England and Ireland.
The armed services personnel records for those serving in 1914 up to 1921 are currently being released from the Ministry of Defence to the Public Record Office, Kew where they are being microfilmed to occupy archive WO 363 - First World War Soldiers' Documents. This is a major project that is forecast to take a number of years to complete from the start of the work in 1997. The original documents cannot be viewed due to their fragile condition.
A brief article to help genealogists search for their ancestors who served in the British Army. Particular focus is on the First World War and the Irish Regiments.
This Pamphlet, as a contemporary record of the Volunteers of Munster, is of such rarity that I have thought it worth transcribing for our Journal. It will be of interest, not merely to the general reader, but to the descendants of the various families whose names are associated with those who held command and officered the Volunteers, and to all Irishmen who are imbued with the true spirit of patriotism, and who rejoice in being descended from those who, to defend their homes from foreign invasion sprang to arms, and were equipped, armed and accoutred at their own personal charges.
Military HeritageTours honours all traditions on the island of Ireland and anywhere that the Irish fighting man has served, no matter what uniform he wore. We provide everything that the serious student of military history and visitors with a casual interest, seeking holiday with a difference, will want. This will be an enjoyable learning experience.
Irish men and women whose names are on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall) in Washington, D.C.
The links on this page will take you to various articles, period papers and other records of the Volunteers of Ireland.
This web-site presents an inventory of war memorials in Ireland. It includes photographs of each memorial, the text of all inscriptions, and details of the site of the memorial. A database of all of those named allows a search for individual persons, with links to the photographs of the memorials.
The Honourable Society of the Irish Brigade was formed in 1994, on the 300th anniversary of the death of its founder, Justin MacCarthy, The Viscount Mountcashel (first Duke of Clancarthy). A society to commemorate the lives and achievements of the Irish Soldier in Foreign Service was created. At this time organisations existed which commemorated the Irish contribution to specific conflicts such as the American Civil War, The Irish Regiments of the British Army and such, but no organisation existed that spanned all ages and all units in which the Irish had served. Colonel James Shortt, The Baron of Castleshort, commander of the Royal Galloglas Guard, was tasked with forming the Society as its first Convenor-General.
Irish civilians and Irish-born U.S. soldiers who died during the Korean War, 1950 - 1953.
Members of the Royal Irish Regiment, 16th Air Assault Brigade, celebrate St. Patrick's Day at Camp Eagle, in the run-up to war against Iraq.
In memory of Driver Henry Young died 20th May 1877, Gunner Wm Mathews died 4th Novr 1879, Shoeing Smith Henry Geo Markham died 13th March 1880, Gunner John Greene died 20th April 1880, Gunner Nicholas De Courcy died 3rd Sept 1880. Erected by their comrades Depot Battery, 3rd Brigade, Royal Artillery.
Grave location for holders of the Victoria Cross.
This Register provides personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First or Second World Wars. (A record some 60,000 civilian casualties of the Second World War is provided without details of burial location.)
Links related to the Young Ireland Movement, the Rising, key Republicans, and other resources.
Established by Royal Charter in 1917, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission pays tribute to the 1,700,000 men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two world wars. It is a non-profit-making organisation that was founded by Sir Fabian Ware.
Only weeks after the outbreak of World War 1, the founding of the 36th Ulster Division was announced in Belfast, to be made up of 3 infantry brigades of each 4 battalions, a pioneer battalion, three companies of Royal Engineers, a signal company, and a Royal Army Medical Corps, placed under the command of Major General C. Herbert Powell who had seen service as an officer in the Indian Army.
Contemporary documents on the events of Easter Week 1916, the seven signatories of the proclamation, the others executed in the aftermath of the Rising, the casualties and the survivors.
This archive of primary documents from World War One has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). International in focus, the archive intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War.
This screen lists the topics (types of records) that are available for the place you selected.
A search engine for those who died while serving in Commonwealth Forces during WW1 and WW2.
Kevin Barry from Tombeagh, Hacketstown, Co. Carlow had attended national school in Rathvilly, Co. Carlow and secondary school in Belvedere College, Dublin and in 1920 he was a medical student in University College Dublin (U.C.D.).
In 1846, thousands of immigrants, mostly Irish, joined the US army and were sent with Gen. Zachary Taylor's army to invade Mexico in what some historians have called a war of Manifest Destiny.
September 11, 2001, will rank among the bloodiest days in the history of the Irish people. Nobody knows exactly how many were lost but we do know that thousands of members of the global Irish community will never see their loved ones again.
The New Connaught Rangers Association was set up in King House in Boyle, Co Roscommon by a number of individuals with a strong interest and family links to the old regiment.
The Battle of the Somme, whose 90th anniversary we commemorate this year, started on 1 July 1916 after an eight-day artillery bombardment of the German front lines.
This is an essential tool for the military or genealogical researcher. These two volumes (plus a supplement) tells you exactly which regiment was posted where from 1640 to 1914.
This site is dedicated to locating and bringing together those U.S. Navy Sailors (Enlisted and Officers) and Civilians who served at the U.S. Naval Communication Station, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and its predecessor Londonderry area United States Naval facilities: Naval Operating Base (NOB), NAVRADSTA (NRS), and NAVRADFAC (NRF).
"No serious historian or enthusiast working on the First World War can afford to be without this major reference work ..."
Family historians in the United States who can trace their roots back to an ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War, or the War of 1812, or the Civil War are often amazed and gratified by the amount of biographical data contained in the records of their military service.
A main purpose of the Trust is to encourage and facilitate research into the military heritage of Ireland.
The National 1798 Visitor Centre in Enniscorthy, County Wexford provides a good history of the 1798 Rebellion.
The CAIN (Conflict Archive on the INternet) webpage contains information and source material on 'the Troubles' and politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present.
This webpage lists nearly 300 museums and museum-ships in Britain and Ireland.
The mission of the Military Archives is to acquire, preserve and make available to the public the documentary heritage of the Defence Forces and the Department of Defence.
Few Americans are well-acquainted with the gallantry and heroic exploits of Philadelphia's Irish-born naval commander, Commodore John Barry.
Fenian Brotherhood routs the Canadian Militia in Ontario, Canada.
Son of Irish immigrants earns immortality in World War II.
Myles Walter Keogh was born on March 25, 1840, at Orchard House, a stone dwelling that still stands near the village of Leighlinbridge, County Carlow.
British security forces have been involved in the struggle in Northern Ireland since 1969, therefore a Chapter on Northern Ireland on this web site would be considered essential. However because of the political climate still going on we, the web masters, are determined not to make this a political site but a short history of the British security forces who served in the province.
This exhibition looks at how the governments and people of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and of England's French territories, interacted in politics, warfare, religion, trade and everyday life.
Including commentary on the questionable authenticity of the papal bull.
A printed version of the text can be found on pages 311 - 312 of A Jacobite Narrative of the War in Ireland, 1688-1691, edited by John T. Gilbert (Dublin: Joseph Dollard, 1892; reprinted New York: Barnes & Noble, 1971).
From the 1851 Census of Devon, Norfolk and Warwick and the 1881 Census of England, Scotland, Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Mann and Royal Navy.
Our reason for existence is to promote a wider awareness of the forgotten Irish men and women who served, fought and died in the Great War 1914-1918.
Weapons training is a core activity of every unit of the Defence Forces. Each and every soldier trains on a wide variety of weapons from assault rifles to heavy support weapons.
Eoin O'Duffy emerged from the War of Independence with a well-deserved reputation that his Civil War opponent Ernie O'Malley described as "energetic and commanding".
Ireland in the 10th century had been dominated by the power of the Uí Néill but, curiously, it was their own zealousness that led to the rise of their most effective opponent in the race for the High Kingship.
This webpage indexes over 3,250 free e-Books and e-Journals on the topic of Irish, Irish-American, Irish-Australian and Irish-Canadian Genealogy, all of which can be read online.
Hard by the "Bloody Road" that drew 540 men of the Irish Brigade to their deaths or grievous wounds 135 years ago, a faint noise was suddenly heard in the distance.
Jack Hepenstal was a lieutenent in the Irish Yeomanry, who earned himself the nickname of "The Walking Gallows" at the time of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
The Royal Irish Constabulary (R.I.C.) was created in 1836. It was a centrally controlled, heavily armed force, dressed in dark green uniforms and subject to military style discipline and drill.
The site covers medals awarded to people who fought in wars in Ireland and in conflicts around the world.
The Royal Irish Constabulary and was Ireland's armed country-wide police force between 1822 in 1922 and 85,028 men passed through its ranks. Dublin had its own unarmed Dublin Metropolitan Police from 1836 to 1925.
Established on 31 August 1803, the Legion Irlandaise was originally created in anticipation of an invasion of ireland.
Includes articles related to Irish laws and associations, convicts and databases, and World War 1.
A collection of over 80 primary source First World War letters sent from son to mother at home in Ireland.
Here to discuss, learn about and honour the Irish men and women of Civil War Era America.
his site has been created to provide historical information and items of interest about Irish soldiers of the American Civil War, circa, 1861-65.
There were no Irish units in the Waffen-SS or Wehrmacht, although there were Irish volunteers.
The Military History Society of Ireland was founded in 1949. The aim of the Society is to promote the study of military history, and in particular the history of warfare in Ireland and of Irishmen in war.
The life and military career of Myles Walter Keogh, born March 25th, 1840 at Orchard, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow.
Thomas Francis Meagher was born in Waterford City in 1823. In his relatively short life Meagher conceived and first flew the Irish tricolour in 1848 and was exiled to Tasmania for sedition during the same year.
This database was established to create a commemorative record of Waterford people who died in all wars, listing biographical data and linking to other primary sources of information such as photographs, letters, official documents and memorabilia.
The Royal Munster Fusiliers Association 1992 is a non profit organisation and any support is greatly appreciated.
A treasure chest of records and articles relating to Co. Mayo genealogy.
"I know that I shall meet my fate, somewhere among the clouds above."
Oliver Cromwell's conquest of Ireland had initiated the most severe displacement of Catholics in Irish history, most to the relatively barren northwestern part of the country. "To hell or to Connaught" were the orders for the treatment of the Irish Papist.
This website is to honour the men of the 16th Irish Division who took part in the Great War of 1914-1918.
The famous Volunteer force collapsed somewhat abruptly and ignominiously in 1793; and a militia force was the only safeguard of peace in the country which was seething with sedition and evidently heading for rebellion.
Extracts from the Private memorandum Book of Captain George Gafney, of Kilkenny, an Officer in the Army of James II. By the Rev. James Graves. Published in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society. Vol. III, 1854-55. pp. 161- 172.
The famous Volunteer force collapsed somewhat abruptly and ignominiously in 1793; and a militia force was the only safeguard of peace in the country which was seething with sedition and evidently heading for rebellion. In 1796 a yeomanry force, cavalry and infantry, officered by local gentlemen was raised for preserving order.
On the shelves in the National Archives of Ireland are some indices - books - and these books are indexed in a number of ways - the general title is 'Index of Official Papers'. For most of the years, they have this title - but then for some of the years, there are Military or other indices with information separated from the general run of the mill official index for that year.
Published in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1894, Vol. II.
Kilfinnan Light Dragoons 1777. Captain Charles Coote. Lieutenant - ??. Cornet George Chapman. One Troop: Unirform, scarlet jackets, faced Pomona green, laced silver and epaulets; furniture, goatskin.
The Irish Militia was set up in 1793 as an official government army, each county having its own battalions or regiments. The Proclamation calling for a militia to be set up in Louth and Drogheda was issued on the 30th April 1793 (See left, taken from Freeman's Journal, 23 April 1793).
Return of the Parish, Townland and Subdivision for which each Recruit Inlisted for the Augmentation of the Louth Regiment has been sent down.
In the Spring months of 1797, the County of Tyrone passed into what could be and was called a state of ‘smothered revolt.’ The Government forces indeed acted strongly, as the Spring Assizes at Omagh in the beginning of April testify. Newton, the Coagh magistrate, was at Omagh ; from which place he wrote to the Revd. D. O’Connor in Dublin on the 4th of the month.
The Patriotic Fund was set up in Ireland (and Great Britain) to assist the dependants (parents, wives or children) of those soldiers who were fighting in the Crimean War and who had fallen on hard times as a result of the main provider being absent from home (or indeed dead or wounded). Around £1,140 was collected in County Louth.
Traits and Stories from the T.C.D. Depositions (Continued) Edited by THOMAS FITZPATRICK, LL.D. LI John Crockford, of Killgraney, in the County of Waterford (f. 125) (Losses, 521(li) 13 shillings 9d (pence)
The following names have been extracted from a paper published in the “Proceedings and Transactions of the Kilkenny and the South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society” Vol 3. 1855. pp. 231-274
The following names have been extracted from a paper published in the “Proceedings and Transactions of the Kilkenny and the South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society” Vol 3. 1855. pp. 231-274.
Mrs Blake, nee Foley Captain. Maggie Relihan sec, Asdee Ballylongford. Mrs W Finucane, nee Coughlin, treasurer, Larha, Asdee. Mrs Moran nee Deenihan, Mary A Russel. Mrs J Walsh. Annie O Connor.
Link names have been changed as the Irish Constabulary did not receive "Royal" status until 1867.
Tens of thousands of women across the island of Ireland threw themselves enthusiastically into the war effort, yet very little has been written about them.
The death toll among Irish men and women in the war wasn't confined to soldiers serving on the front line. Some 230 doctors were among the casualties, with many buried abroad where they perished.
Working in the archives of the Imperial War Museum in London always gives me the visceral anticipation I had as a child at Christmas. A catalogue search gives a brief overview of the subject matter in a file, but it is not until the box is laid on your desk, and you undo the neatly tied bow of archival tape and see the contents that the process of discovery begins.
Mary Morris’s absorbing diary is a tonic to so many outsized histories of the second World War by those who had not been there.
At the height of World War 1 over 375,000 letters were being processed a day and 12.5 million letters left the British home depot every week. During the First World War letters to and from the front served an extremely important purpose. Letters were one of the sole comforts a soldier at the front could count on and their replies reassured those waiting at home that their loved ones were safe and well. Marie Martin and her family were no exception.