Lecture 66: The Irish in American Civil War by Damian Shiels

Ireland's Forgotten Great War: The Irish and the American Civil War by Damian Sheils.

An extract from Damian's award winning website:
The American Civil War is one of only two conflicts in Irish history which have seen c. 200,000 Irishmen in uniform. However, unlike the First World War, its impact on Irish people has been largely forgotten and ignored in Ireland itself. This is despite the fact that many of those affected were Famine emigrants, who between 1861 and 1865 experienced the second great trauma of their lives. By failing to recognise the scale of the war’s impact on Irish people, we have also failed to recognise how valuable study of this conflict can be in understanding the lives of Irish emigrants. One of the American Civil War’s legacies was an ocean of documentation pertaining to its participants, documentation that today provides us with the greatest amount of detail on the social and personal lives of 19th century Irish people available anywhere in the world- including Ireland. The central mission of this site is to share some of those stories, and in so doing to raise awareness in Ireland and elsewhere of the value of studying this aspect of Irish Diaspora History.
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