As we all know, 2026 is the year of the semiquincentennial of the United States. Two-hundred and fifty years is a pretty ...
The Irish and American revolutions were united by a common foe – the British, but the differences between the two revolutions are more numerous than the similarities. The Irish revolution was both a ...
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How tens of thousands of Irish immigrants led the Patriots to victory during the American Revolution
In 1745, a boy named John Barry was born by the sea in southeastern Ireland. He would spend his childhood under England’s thumb. Like other Irish Catholics living in the Protestant kingdom, Barry was ...
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 ...
The American Revolutionary War was defined by events which would “try men’s souls” but none more so for the Continental Army than the harsh winter of 1779- 1780 at Morristown, New Jersey. The coldest ...
This spring, a new exhibition at The Grolier Club explores the formation of Irish identity through the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the parallel political quest ...
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