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Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 by Damian Shiels

Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 by Damian Shiels published by LSU Press 318 pages (2025) Damian Shiels has been researching…

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Damian Shiels Talks About His New Book “Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865”

Gerry Prokopowicz  of Civil Wat Talk Radio has an very revealing discussion with our old friend Damian Shiels talk about his new book “Green and…

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Damian Shiels on the Actual Irish During the Civil War-Not Just the Irish Brigade

Damian Shiels, the noted Irish scholar on the American Civil War, gave a lecture on May 8, 2025 at New York University  (NYU) in Manhattan….

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Around the Web May 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media

As we enter May, 2021, I am working on a podcast of my own that I call Civil War Reconstruction. It will be a monthly…

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