Commanders of the British Forces in Ireland, 1796–1922

The Irish Defence Forces, 1922–2022

---

Tracing its history to the foundation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, the Irish Defence Forces has evolved beyond recognition from the force that emerged in tandem with...
Author/Editor: Eoin Kinsella

Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916

Anzacs and the Rising

---

Little has been written on Trinity College’s role in Easter Week 1916 as a ‘loyal nucleus’ dividing the insurgents and providing an effective counterweight to rebel headquarters in...
Author/Editor: Rory Sweetman

They shall grow not old

Irish soldiers and the Great War

---

they shall grown no old, as we that are left grow old, age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, at the going down...
Author/Editor: Myles Dungan

The Irish brigade in the Pope’s army 1860

Faith, fatherland and fighting

---

In 1860, some 1,300 young men from Ireland answered the call to cross Europe and defend Pope Pius IX’s Papal States, the territory he ruled on the...
Author/Editor: Donal Corcoran

Captain Francisco de Cuéllar

The Armada, Ireland, and the Wars of the Spanish Monarchy, 1578–1606

---

Captain Francisco de Cuéllar was an officer who served with the ill-fated Spanish Armada. He was shipwrecked on the coast of Co. Sligo in September 1588. Known...
Author/Editor: Francis Kelly

Irish Men and Women in the Second World War

---

The publication of this book in 1999 provided the first detailed examination of the many Irish men and women, all volunteers, who served in the Second World...
Author/Editor: Richard Doherty