some individual clerics offered support to the anti-Treaty side during the Civil War, as Brian Heffernan explains Despite the omnipresence of the Catholic Church in Irish society, our picture of ...

Why did Tweed earn the “everlasting loyalty” of many during the Civil War? Based on the clip, why did the “bond” between Tweed and New York City’s Irish Catholics deepen after the Civil War?

The Irish Catholic Church should follow the example of Pope Francis and apologise for its treatment of Irish republicans during the Civil War as the pope had done in relation to events in his own ...

Contrast that with the American Civil War two decades later, with the famous imagery of Union Army Catholic Chaplain Fr. William Corby conferring absolution upon the Irish troops prior to the ...

Historian Dr Tim Horgan was speaking at the annual Liam Lynch Commemoration L-R: Cllr Frank O’ Flynn, former Cork East TD Ned O'Keeffe, speaker Dr Tim Horgan and Cllr Deirdre O’Brien on their ...

These Irish Americans deserted on account of the vicious anti-Catholic bigotry that infested ... Meagher’s Irish Brigade of the American Civil War. The Meagher in question was Brigadier General ...

The role of the Catholic Church during the Irish Civil War is to be examined this weekend at a conference in Dublin. Taking place on the St Patrick’s Campus of Dublin City University on Saturday ...

Though most were Catholic, Erskine Childers for example ... Commandant-General WRE Murphy. Picture: Irish Civil War in Colour/Gillbooks.ie National Army commanders Emmett Dalton and Eoin O ...