British actor Judi Dench has become a patron of a former Irish regiment in honour of her father who served in the first World War. Reginald Dench was born in England in 1897 but grew up in Dublin.

B Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment (1 R IRISH) have officially taken over from I Company, 2nd Battalion, The Rifles (2 RIFLES) as the British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI) ...

The 69th Regiment, known as 'The Fighting Irish,' was founded on December 21, 1849. In November 2019, ahead of its 170th anniversary, a special Irish whiskey was unveiled to commemorate the iconic ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Ten men from Irish regiments who died in the first World War and whose graves have been located will be honoured next month. Rededication services will take place in France and Belgium following ...

‘The ceremony was one of the most touching that I ever beheld’, recalled John Fortescue, the librarian at Windsor Castle, describing the moment on 12 June 1922 when King George V received back the ...

Source: The Civil War Society's "Encyclopedia of the Civil War. There is perhaps no other ethnic group so closely identified with the Civil War years and the immediate aftermath of the war as Irish ...

Belfast, 17 August 1916 - Pleas for recruits to join the British army have been made across Ireland in recent days. Official sources have said that the current rate of recruitment is not sufficient to ...

A former soldier has spoken of his pride at working on a tribute to Irish soldiers at the UK’s National Memorial Arboretum - which will see a permanent and large-scale map of Ireland viewable from the ...

New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. *Does not include Games-only or Cooking-only subscribers.

Gilt button from Dr Spencer’s 18th Royal Irish Regiment officer’s tunic, circa 1860. Safely stored among the collection of the Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust is Dr William Isaac Spencer’s 18th Royal Irish ...