Ireland and the Great War

by Keith Jeffery

• ISBN13: 9780521292634
• ISBN10: 0521292638
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-16
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This is the first book to give a unified picture of Ireland's experience of the First World War. Unlike any previous work it identifies the similarities of experience of constitutional nationalists, separatist republicans and unionists, and deals with civilian, social, economic and cultural aspects, as well as the purely military. The book also relates the experience of the war and its subsequent commemoration to the politics of twentieth-century Ireland, North and South, up to and including the recent peace process.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Obligation: 'Irishmen remember Belgium'

Participation: Suvla Bay, the Somme and the Easter Rising: the military experience of the war, abroad and at home

Imagination: onlookers in France: Irish cultural responses to the war

Commemoration: 'Turning the 11th November into the 12th July': Irish politics and the collective memory of war; Bibliographical essay

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