They have called us Rebels and Traitors,
But themselves have thrown off that name of late;
They were called it by the English Invaders,
At home—in the year of "Ninety-Eight ..."
-- from "Kelly’s Irish Brigade"
For…
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The Irish green shall again be seen
As our Irish fathers bore it,
A burning wind from the South behind,
and the Yankee rout before it!
-- From the Civil War anthem 'Song for the Irish Brigade'
Since its…
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He stands in bronze and he stands on granite,
Facing the river where the fleet turned tail;
The stone lists the Davis Guards upon it,
Names that rhyme in the songs of the Gael.*
Around 3:30 on an afternoon of September 8th 1863, on…
ContinueAdded by Joe Gannon on April 23, 2017 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments
Dublin, Ireland (First published 4/23/11) - April 12, 2011 marked the 150th anniversary of the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter, and with it the onset of America’s long and bloody Civil War. Two days later, the first recorded fatality of the five-year conflict occurred, with the death of…
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