The Fenian Brotherhood was an Irish nationalist organization founded in 1858 to fight for Ireland's independence from British rule. Following the Civil War, Irish-American veterans in the Fenian ...
On November 26, 1923, a woman named Anne McCormack applied for a military dependent’s pension on the grounds of her husband, James McCormack’s death. He had been a soldier in the Irish citizen army, ...
As the title of the novel attests, this story involves the atrocities committed both before and during the Irish Civil War by the invasive forces of the British – as well as by the Irish against their ...
Community members gathered at the Camano City Schoolhouse Sunday, March 15, to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and learn about the Irish War of Independence. Marianne McGarry-Bloom was the featured ...
“All changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born,” wrote Yeats in one of the most powerful political poems of the 20th century, Easter, 1916. The elegiac masterpiece simultaneously mourns ...