Welcome to the website of World War II and Ireland History Talks and Interactive Exhibitions. We provide a unique and valuable resource for students and teachers of primary, secondary and third level history in your school or college both north and south of the Irish border. We also cater for history groups and the corporate sector looking for a presentation and exhibition with a difference.  Our educational presentations are carefully tailored to suit individual audiences, age groups and student levels and are also a must for enthusiasts of World War II history everywhere. Uniquely, a great many of our authentic wartime display items and artefacts are circulated among audience members during the course of our talks making it a truly 'touching history' and ‘primary source’ experience.

Your host, author and WWII historian Joe McCabe, has a unique insight into his subject. In 2013/2014 he played an important part in the re-discovery of the original D-Day weather charts which were thought lost to history.  He was guest speaker at General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s D-Day Headquarters at Southwick House in Portsmouth, UK for the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in 2014 and also at the Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Savannah, Georgia USA. He has also been a special guest of the Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, USA where he met with several of the most renowned World War II aviation historians in America.

Over many years, Joe has also participated in commemorative parachute jumps onto the historic D-Day battlefields of Normandy, France and those of Operation Market Garden in The Netherlands. He has interviewed at length veterans on all sides who took part in the battles of World War II including a great many from Southern and Northern Ireland. He continues to visit the battlefields of WWII and other conflicts whenever the chance arises.

Joe McCabe is also the biographer of Lt. Colonel Daniel A. McGovern, the Irish-born US Army Air Forces combat cameraman who led the filming of the aftermath of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki which is the historic archive footage we have today. Earlier, McGovern was Photographer/Cameraman to US President Franklin Delano Roosavelt. He then, in 1942, set up the Combat Camera Training School for the United States Army Air Forces in Hollywood, California and trained its very first combat cameramen of WWII. Having deployed to England with the USAAF's 8th Air Force, he filmed combat footage over Nazi occupied Europe for Hollywood Director William Wyler's acclaimed 1944 documentary "The Memphis Belle – A Story of a Flying Fortress.' As a boy back in Ireland McGovern witnessed first-hand the Irish War of Independence/Anglo Irish War. See details of Joe McCabe's biography of Dan McGovern HERE.

Whilst Northern Ireland was directly involved in WWII, the Republic of course, remained neutral – but not altogether so.  Joe’s presentations will keep audiences of all ages enthralled as he focuses on the history of WWII, the individuals from Ireland north and south who fought in it and how that conflict affected both parts of the island. Audiences will also hear fascinating and virtually unknown stories of Irish involvement in the Second World War and revealing aspects of technical advances which arose from that conflict – many of which might surprise you. Presentations also take a detailed look at uniforms, equipment, publications and battlefield artefacts from that era. These presentations are a ‘must see’ educational experience for students, teachers and enthusiasts alike and will greatly enrich the overall learning experience.