World War II Irish hero Sir John Gorman from Omagh made history during Operation Goodwood by daring to ram a legendary German ...

Ireland declared a position of neutrality during WWII, and in 1939, the Irish Coast Watching Service was established to keep an eye out for activity on the sea and in the air.

Towards the end of May, 1940, a crew of the fledgling Irish Marine Service arrived in Hampshire to collect the second Vosper Motor Torpedo Boat ordered from Thornycroft by neutral Ireland. As ...

The last known surviving Irish soldier to have been pardoned for leaving the Irish Defence Forces to fight for the Allies in World War Two dies at 94.

It is estimated that more than 130,000 Irish soldiers, sailors and air men fought in World War II from 1939-1945 despite Ireland's status as a neutral nation.

Michael Cox, Northern Ireland: The War That Came in from the Cold, Irish Studies in International Affairs, Vol. 9 (1998), pp. 73-84 ...

There are over 80 different Eire signs across Ireland, which served to warn bombers they were flying over a neutral country during World War II.

A bomb dropped more than 80 years ago by a German warplane during World War II detonated in Ireland on Tuesday in a controlled explosion that prompted the evacuation of over 400 homes.

COUNTY MONAGHAN, IRELAND—According to a report in The Irish Times, parts of an American World War II fighter plane have been recovered in County Monaghan, near the border between the Republic of ...

Irish actor Pierce Brosnan will star as a Northern Ireland World War II veteran in the upcoming film “The Last Rifleman.” Brosnan, a native of Drogheda in Co Louth, will play Artie Crawford, a ...

The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland appears annually and is one of the leading peer-reviewed publications in its field. While it publishes articles on a wide range of topics, ...