The first major loss of life in the conflict came when the obsolete Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano was torpedoed by a ...

By the end of the 19th century almost one-third of Toronto’s population was born in Ireland, a greater percentage at that stage than New York or Boston. In the summer of 1847 alone, 40,000 Irish ...

The rising on Easter Monday passed unnoticed by the Waterford activist, Rosamond Jacob. Her diary entry for 24 April reads: ‘Wet day, nothing doing’. The following morning news of events in ...