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The main memorials to the Irish war dead, one in France and one in Belgium, are the Ulster Tower and the Island of Ireland Peace Park, unveiled in 1921 and 1998 respectively. Delville Wood Memorial (South Africa) Vimy Memorial (Canada) Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australia) Neuve-Chapelle Memorial (India) Beaumont-Hamel Memorial (Newfoundland)
Irish World War I propaganda recruitment poster, c. 1915, by Hely's Limited, Dublin. During World War I (1914–1918), Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which entered the war in August 1914 as one of the Entente Powers, along with France and Russia.
This is a list of the last known surviving veterans of the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) who lived to 1999 or later, along with the last known veterans for countries that participated in the war.
M. Dubhaltach Caoch Mac Coisdealbhaigh; Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín; John MacBride; Charles MacCarthy More; Charles MacCarthy (British Army officer) Phelim Reagh MacDavitt
Irish World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross (2 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Irish people of World War I" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total.
Pages in category "Irish soldiers in the United States Army" The following 102 pages are in this category, out of 102 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A military brigade usually has over 3,000 members, indicating its target size and the scale of Casement's optimism and failure. [citation needed] The intended Brigade was part of a much larger German plan which involved attempts to utilise Indian independence activists, German Americans, and Irish nationalists to destabilise the British Empire. [5]
The Tyneside Irish Brigade was a British First World War infantry brigade of Kitchener's Army, raised in 1914. Officially numbered the 103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade , it contained four Pals battalions from Newcastle upon Tyne , largely made up of men of Irish extraction.