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Ireland s Unknown Soldiers
Author | : Terence Denman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015029123422 |
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The Great War of 1914ñ18 saw the Irish soldier make his greatest sacrifice on Britainís behalf. Nearly 135,000 Irishmen volunteered (conscription was never applied in Ireland) in addition to the 50,000 Irish who were serving with the regular army and the reserves on 4 August 1914. Within a few weeks of the outbreak of the war no less than three Irish divisions ñ the 10th (Irish), 16th (Irish) and 36th (Ulster) ñ were formed from Irishmen, Catholic and Protestant, who responded to Lord Kitchenerís call to arms. An estimated 35,000 Irish-born soldiers were killed before the armistice came in November 1918. Over 4,000 of those who died were with the 16th (Irish) Division. Yet, in spite of these facts, serious historical study of Irelandís major involvement in the War has been neglected. Indeed Easter 1916 dominates Irish historiography to such an extent that the period 1914ñ18 is rarely considered as a distinct era in Irish history.
Irish Regiments in the Great War
Author | : Timothy Bowman |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0719062853 |
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The British army was almost unique among the European armies of the Great War in that it did not suffer from a serious breakdown of discipline or collapse of morale. It did, however, inevitably suffer from disciplinary problems. While attention has hitherto focused on the 312 notorious "shot at dawn" cases, many thousands of British soldiers were tried by court martial during the Great War. This book will be essential reading for military and Irish historians and their students, and will interest any general reader concerned with how units maintain discipline and morale under the most trying conditions.
A Military History of Ireland
Author | : Thomas Bartlett,Keith Jeffery |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1997-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521629896 |
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This is a major, collaborative study of organised military activity and its broad impact on Ireland over the last thousand years or so, from the middle of the first millennium AD to modern times. It integrates the best recent scholarship in military history into its social and political context to provide a comprehensive treatment of the Irish military experience. The eighteen chronologically-organised chapters are written by leading scholars each of whom is an authority on the period in question. Drawing the whole work together is a wide-ranging introductory essay on the 'Irish military tradition' which explores the relationship of Irish society and politics with militarism and military affairs. The text is illustrated throughout by over 120 pictures and maps.
Irish Voices from the Great War
Author | : Myles Dungan |
Publsiher | : Merrion Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-07-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781908928832 |
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This pioneering study, first published in 1995, retains its rank as one of the most powerful histories ever written about Irish involvement in World War 1. This year, the centenary of the war, sees its timely re-publication as the Irishmen who fought in that war re-enter the national memory after decades of indifference and hostility. The gradual softening of attitudes over the last twenty years amid great historic change on the island of Ireland, is due in no small part to the efforts of historians, such as Myles Dungan, to tell thousands of forgotten stories. Drawing on the diaries, letters, literary works and oral accounts of soldiers, Myles Dungan tells some of the personal stories of what Irishmen, unionist and nationalist, went through during the Great War and how many of them drew closer together during that horror than at any time since. This volume deals with a selection of the most important battles and campaigns in which the three Irish Divisions participated.
The British Imperial Army in the Middle East
Author | : James E. Kitchen |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781472509284 |
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The First World War has often been understood in terms of the combat experiences of soldiers on the Western Front; those combatants who served in the other theatres of the war have been neglected. Using personal testimonies, official documentation and detailed research from a diverse range of archives, The British Imperial Army in the Middle East explores the combat experiences of these soldiers. The army that fought the Ottoman Empire was a multinational and multi-ethnic force, drawing personnel from across Britain's empire, including Australia, New Zealand, and India. By taking a transnational and imperial perspective on the First World War, this book ensures that the campaigns in Egypt and Palestine are considered in the wider context of an empire mobilised to fight a total and global war.
At War with the 16th Irish Division 1914 1918
Author | : J. H. M. Staniforth |
Publsiher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2012-12-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781783032112 |
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The letters of John Max Staniforth are among the most perceptive, graphic and evocative personal records of a soldiers life to have come down to us from the Great War. They cover his entire wartime career with the 16th (Irish) Division, from his enlistment in 1914 till the armistice, and they have never been published before. From his first days in the army, Staniforth wrote fluent, descriptive weekly letters to his parents and, in doing so, he created a fascinating record of his experiences and those of the men around him. When the division arrived on the Western Front in 1915, he related his impressions in detail, and went on to give an unflinching account of the drama and the cruelty and the grueling routine of trench warfare. After he was gassed in 1918, he wrote about his feelings and the treatment he received just as thoroughly as he did about every other aspect of the conflict.A striking aspect of the letters is that Staniforth enlisted as a private soldier and went through the training of the ordinary recruit before rising through the ranks. The letters also show how the Irish division was influenced by the turmoil of contemporary politics in Ireland.
Dublin s Great Wars
Author | : Richard S. Grayson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2018-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107029255 |
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The story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the Irish Revolution.
Ulster s Men
Author | : Jane G. V. McGaughey |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780773539723 |
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Heroism, propaganda, unionism, and violence in Ireland during the Great War.