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Burnell says the publication of the database ‘is one of the best days of my life’. Photograph: Getty Images
Database of people from Ireland who died in first World War released

A database of more than 31,380 people who died in the first World War from what is now the Republic has gone live for Armistice Day. The database, Ir(...)

The grave of Hector Fullerton Donald (27) of Liverpool in Ahamlish cemetery, Co Sligo. He was presumed to have drowned after the troop ship Mohamed Ali El-Kebir was torpedoed on August 7th, 1940.
A parish they never knew – Arthur Beesley on the final resting place in Sligo of five British soldiers

On a recent visit to a countryside cemetery in north Co Sligo, my attention was drawn to the graves of five British soldiers that date to the second W(...)

The aftermath of the bombing of the North Strand by the Luftwaffe, 1941
Irish civilian dead of WW2 to be recognised as Commonwealth casualties

Irish civilians who were killed during the second World War will be recognised as Commonwealth casualties and included on a roll of honour. Fifty-two(...)

Martin Doyle at a garden party at Buckingham Palace for Victoria Cross recipients in June 1920, four months before he joined the IRA.
The man who fought for three armies: British, IRA and Free State

The people of New Ross in Co Wexford will on Sunday honour Victoria Cross winner Martin Doyle who returned to the town as a war hero 100 years ago and(...)

The headstone on the grave of Thomas Woodgate will be changed to reflect that he was 14 years of age when he died. Photograph: Ronan McGreevy
The 14-year-old who was probably the youngest Irish serviceman to die in WW1

For much of the last 100 years it was assumed that Private John Condon from Waterford city was the youngest British soldier to die in the first World (...)

SS Tuskar was three miles west of Eagle island, above, in north Mayo when it was sunk by a mine launched from a German submarine. Photograph: Gareth McCormack/garethmccormack.com
Irish crew killed by German mine in 1917 honoured in Mayo

The deaths of 10 Irish and Scottish crew in a first World War sinking off the north Mayo coast have been marked at a centenary commemoration in Erris.(...)

Mary and John Green, great grandchildren of John Redmond, with photographs of Willie and John Redmond. Photograph: Joanne O’Brien
The Redmonds: tragedy of Ireland’s first political family

There is a photograph in the Redmond family collection which may well be the last one taken of Major Willie Redmond MP. Redmond, who is wearing his (...)

From Gallipoli to Salonika and the Balkans, to the Calvary of Passchendaele

In the wake of their costly participation in the Somme campaign, the two Irish infantry divisions that had served so far in France were moved north to(...)

Lieutenant William Frederick MacHutchison: 99 years later, his last resting place has been identified
The story of a missing Irish soldier

For almost 100 years Dublin-born soldier Lieutenant William Frederick MacHutchison was one of the missing of the first World War. On Wednesday a new h(...)

MacHutchison was one of 526,816 British army soldiers who died in the war and have no known grave. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Grave of Irishman killed during first World War identified

Like so many parents, John and Jane MacHutchison endured the double agony of not only losing a son in the first World War, but also having no place to(...)

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