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The American who was held in Ireland’s WWII internment camp — twice

Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and ...
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Saint Patrick’s Battalion: Why Irish-American Troops Defected to Mexico

The proud and patriotic service of Irish Americans—whether first-generation naturalized immigrants or stateside-born, and whether Catholic or Protestant—in wartime is well-known, especially the ...
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Brig. Gen. Meagher’s Irish Brigade Made History in the American Civil War

In September of 1861, Thomas Meagher began recruiting Irishmen to form a new Irish brigade. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day (known in Gaelic as Lá Fhéile Pádraig, i.e. “the Day of the Festival of ...
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The Columbia guide to Irish American history / Timothy Meagher

I: A history of Irish Americans from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century -- Introduction : the Irish immigrants and ethnics -- Irish immigration to colonial America -- Irish America from the ...