The Wrecker was a reviled figure in Famine Ireland and the role they played in evictions was long remembered in many communities. Often referred to as the ‘hut tumbler’ or ‘leveller’, the ...

This is a major, collaborative study of organised military activity and its broad impact on Ireland over the last thousand years or so, from the middle of the first millennium AD to modern times. It ...

An Irish Army horse failed a drug test after it took part in a showjumping competition in Northern Ireland. The horse, named ...

a biography of a distinguished Irish military officer, Lt Colonel T.W. Fitzpatrick, by his youngest grandson,... On July 2, a packed Royal British Legion hall in Melita Street, Valletta ...

Irish Republican Army This topic contains articles relating to the original IRA from the time of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921). It also covers later paramilitary organisations that ...

The Republic of Ireland's military is facing a recruitment crisis as soldiers opt for a more prosperous civilian life, former officers have claimed. Retired officers have broken with convention ...

Twenty Irish army officers are undergoing a course of briefings and specialised training in preparation for service as United Nations observers in Namibia. They will be joined by thirty-five ...

Two more major military bases in Northern Ireland are to close, it has been announced. Army barracks at Aughnacloy on the Irish border will be vacated and demolished, Chief Constable Hugh Orde ...

The Irish Army rider had to pay a €1,000 (£845) fine after the failed drug test An Irish Army horse failed a drug test after it took part in a showjumping competition in Northern Ireland.

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Gerry Adams, president of the staunchly pro-Irish Sinn Fein party, called on the Irish Republican Army to being disarming in an effort to save the teetering Northern Ireland Assembly. The ...