Visualisations & Mapping
Attention, Civil War image collectors! Damian and I (Brendan) are seeking image contributions for a planned future photographic history of Irish participation in the American Civil War. We are especially interested in period images (or postwar copies of period images) showing...
Work on our Andersonville Irish Project is continuing apace, and we have now gathered important data points on many of the more than 1,000 Irish Americans we have thus far identified. One of those elements is their place of capture....
We have a new StoryMap exploring some of the stories of the Irish at Antietam in photos and videos. So often dominated just by the Irish Brigade experience at the Sunken Road (“Bloody Lane”), Irish Americans were impacted by the...
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...
As regular readers will be aware we are pretty fond of a map here on Irish in the American Civil War. One of our previous initiatives was the Mapping Donegal Veterans project, which plotted American Civil War links to that...
Earlier this week, to mark the major upcoming Irish event at Andersonville National Historic Site we shared the first of our new project infographics, which explored the demographics of the first 850 men we have identified. You can check that...
Last week we brought you the big news of the upcoming 19th October event at the Andersonville National Historic Site, when a plaque will be unveiled to commemorate the Irish American dead of Andersonville and their families (more on that...
The Andersonville Irish Project has now recorded details of 350 Irish Americans who perished at Andersonville during 1864 and 1865. To mark that milestone we have produced an infographic (below, click on the image to enlarge) highlighting some of the...
The Andersonville Irish Project is continuing apace, and there has also been some good news in terms of funding recently. I am delighted that Andersonville National Historic Site has awarded the Project a POW Research Grant, a fund made available...
This is the first in a new series which I have been planning to embark upon for a number of years. The intent is to attempt to explore the scale and range of immigrant service during the Civil War through...