Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed on the opening day of the battle 2,069 men from the 36th Ulster Division were killed at the Somme on 1 July 1916 All times are +1 hour BST Picture: Attack on ...

Irish Historical Studies, the joint journal of the Irish Historical Society and the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies, is published twice yearly (May and November). Established in 1938 under ...

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This article reassesses the original composition of the officer corps of the Kitchener armies formed in late 1914 using the recently released officers' personal files at the National Archives, Kew. It ...

The 16th Irish Division which saw service at the Battle of the Somme was, like its Ulster equivalent, the 36th Ulster Division, a product of rising tension in Ireland during the Home Rule crisis of ...

The Somme, 11 July 1916 - Much of the province of Ulster is in mourning after the 36th (Ulster) Division suffered devastating losses British and French offensive at the Somme as part of the ‘big push’ ...

"The whistle blew, it was over the top, we kept running on. At first all went well, then the German machine-gunners opened up and killed and wounded hundreds of our boys. And then a kind of disorder ...

The carnage of the Battle of the Somme certainly daunts the imagination. In this 1985 play, Frank McGuinness scales the devastation down exponentially, focusing on a handful of soldiers from the Irish ...

The event marks the anniversary of the battle in which many men from the 36th Ulster Division, the 16th Irish Division and other forces made the supreme sacrifice.

There has been condemnation over vandalism targeting a war memorial in Coleraine, with one local TUV councillor hitting out at “republican youths” over the “act of malice”. A piece of the monument ...