For our latest Campfire Chat we were joined by Danny Leavy, an Offaly man who has made his home in New York. Danny has been working on building a database of Offaly people who served during the American Civil War. We discuss his work, some of the stories he has come across, and what got......
I am delighted to announce that the Andersonville Irish Project has secured some important new research funding thanks to the Consulate General of Ireland in Atlanta and the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. The support that the project has received from the Consulate since its inception has been second to none. The Consulate have not......
Although this site is dedicated to the Irish and Irish emigration in the period of the American Civil War, I wanted to take a moment to share some new research I thought may be of interest to readers in light of the major 80th anniversary commemorations of D-Day and the Normandy Landings. As some of......
If you haven’t read John Hennessy’s superb Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle for Second Manassas, you definitely should (and while you’re at it, it’s worth picking up his volume on First Bull Run, An End to Innocence, too). As well as being a great volume with lots of Irish interest, John’s title......
We are pleased to release the second infographic to mark the Andersonville Irish Project passing 1000 identified men. You can view the first infographic, which explores the demographics of these Irishmen, by clicking here. The new infographic explores some aspects of these men’s service; things like what their occupations were, where they entered the military,......
Our new IACW Campfire Chat video is now available on our YouTube Channel. We are hoping to do quite a few more in the future, so please consider subscribing to the Channel here. In the latest video, Brendan and Damian discuss the 29th Massachusetts Infantry. Although not an ethnic Irish unit, the 29th Massachusetts served......
The Andersonville Irish Project recently went past 1000 identified Irish American victims of the Confederate prison camp. In the first of two infographics, we take a look at some of the demographic information we can glean from their stories. To explore the infographic, click on the image to enlarge it....
The Andersonville Irish Project continues apace; we have now identified almost 1,050 Irish Americans who perished at the prison. One of the men identified in recent days is Leitrim native Edward Carter, who was around 25-years-old when he died at Andersonville. Edward’s records are also one of the few that contain original letters written by......
As rare as it is to find identified images of Irish immigrant soldiers of the American Civil in the field, it is rarer still to discover examples that include their families. The National Archives’ collection of Civil War images includes a fascinating series of images of members of the 170th New York Volunteer Infantry, of......
In advance of St. Patrick’s Day I joined John Banks and Tom McMillan of the Antietam and Beyond Podcast to chat about the Irish Brigade and other Irish at Antietam, and Irish participation in the Civil War more generally. It was a really enjoyable chat- you can find it wherever you got your podcasts, by......