Roscommon, 4 June 1915 - A letter from Lance Corporal D. Higgins of the Leinster Regiment to his mother in Roscommon, has painted a vivid picture of life at the front. The letter begins: 'It's a ...

Basingstoke, 29 May 1915 - The first of the Irish divisions of what is known as ‘Kitchener’s Army’ was reviewed yesterday at Basingstoke by King George V. Over 15,000 men, representing all ...

The history of Irish soldiers in the British armed forces is to be the focus of a new £13.6m plan to open two museums in Belfast and Enniskillen. The UNTOLD: Stories of the Irish in the British Army ...

That was also a battle in which, according to one account, nothing startled the French soldiers as much as the wild yell of “Fág an Bealach”, an ancient Irish war cry meaning “Clear the way ...

This is where the majority of British and Irish soldiers fought in World War One ... Trenches became valuable to WW1 armies because they were a defensive solution to modern weaponry.