Russian Ambassador Roman Ambarov has honored the volunteers who fought in the Second Anglo-Boer War at a memorial event in ...

The Second Boer War began in 1899 in the south of Africa. It was fought between the two Boer Republics and the British Empire. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to ...

Relentlessly, history rolls on and events that were once within reach of human memory can no longer be recalled.

In the mid-1880s, Roscrea native Philip Hennessy – a veteran of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 – arrived in Nenagh with his wife Julia and family as Barrack Sergeant at the military barracks at Summerhill.

Britain only had a small, though well-trained regular army. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war ...