World War I

Sisters in war: an Irish nurse battles a deadly enemy in WW1 Iraq

Sisters in war: from the 1916 Rising to the front line of WW1

Nurse Hannah Meany began working as a nurse in 1916 - and found herself treating both sides in the 1916 Rising before heading to the battlefields of France in WW1. Her great-nephew Paul Looby tells her story

Family histories: the last days of Edward Greer

In the third part of our Family Histories series, Stephen Mooney recreates the final days of his great-uncle Edward Greer in the Battle of the Somme.

Family histories: the fate of two brothers in World War I

As a child Michael Riordan wondered about the portrait of a young soldier in British uniform displayed in his family home. In the second part of our Family Histories series, he tells the story of two brothers in arms who met different fates in World War