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The American Civil War

IA Newsletter April 9, 2022

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"The Return of the 69th" There are few paintings that capture the Irish of the Civil War era better than Louis Lang's "The Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment." The painting, 11 feet wide by 7 feet tall, is prominently displayed at the New York Historical Society Building and  shows crowds massed along New York Harbor to welcome home the regiment returned from the First … [Read more...] about The American Civil War

Hibernia | Irish in the Civil War

By Jack McCormack

March 1991

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The March-April issue of Civil War magazine is devoted to examining the role of the Irish in the War Between the States. This fact comes on the heels of the widely acclaimed Public Broadcasting System's eleven-hour series "The Civil War," which virtually ignored the Irish contributions to both sides in America's most famous conflict. PBS mentioned the Irish for about fifteen … [Read more...] about Hibernia | Irish in the Civil War