This 'pill box' machine gun is at the main entrance to Scarva House just outside Scarva village. Add a new article contribute your article to the site Northern Ireland in WWII - Wartime ...

Northern Ireland in WWII - The Americans in Cranfield. "I remember as a wee boy how the Americans all arrived and gave us chewing gum." Add a new article contribute your article to the site ...

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.

The astonishing period of Ireland’s modern history known as The Emergency has been reframed in stunning colour thanks to two award-winning historiographers. Historian Michael B Barry and ...

A wildfire in Ireland has revealed an important WWII-era relic: a giant sign carved into the Earth, meant as a warning for Allied and Axis pilots. The sign was forgotten in the years after the war ...

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.

The names of more than 7,500 men and women from across the island of Ireland killed in the Second World War are today brought together for the first time in a roll of honour.

De Valera's view on neutrality in WWII was to save the people from war and from nightly aerial bombings of our cities and large towns - while he hoped, or was cautiously confident, the Allies ...

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.

It took him almost a century, but American second World War veteran Don Graves finally made it to Ireland to celebrate his Irish heritage on his 98th birthday. During the trip, he recalled the day ...