Meet the Irish soldiers who fought in America's bloodiest battles

The US Pension Certificate of Maurice McAuliffe, which he used in Co Limerick.

Meet 'Little Yankee' who returned to Cork after fighting in the American Civil War, only to be found floating in the Lee — the victim of a gruesome murder.

Or Mary Harrington, from Rosscarbery, whose son Owen died in a POW camp after being captured by Confederate forces during the American Civil War, his letters home to his mother in West Cork read aloud to her because she was illiterate.