Belfast Boys How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War

by Grayson, Richard S.

• ISBN13: 9781441105196
• ISBN10: 1441105190
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The compelling story of West Belfast's involvement fighting on the Western Front throughout the First World War.

Author Biography

Dr Richard S. Grayson is Head of the Politics Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, where he is also Senior Lecturer in British and Irish Politics. A former Director of Policy of the Liberal Democrats, he has written two books on interwar British political history. His great-uncle, from Lurgan, Co Armagh, served and died (in September 1915) on the Western Front in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. vii
Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Civil War?	p. 1
Volunteers and Reserves	p. 9
The British Expeditionary Force, 1914-15	p. 23
The Nature of War	p. 39
Gallipoli and the Eastern Front	p. 51
Arrivals and Executions	p. 63
The Ulster Division on the Somme	p. 77
The Other Somme	p. 91
On and On	p. 101
Messines	p. 109
Mud	p. 119
Retreat	p. 131
Victory	p. 139
Peace and Partition	p. 147
Remembrance	p. 167
Postscript	p. 185
Appendix: Methods and Patterns of 'Military History from the Street'	p. 189
Acknowledgements	p. 203
Notes	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 235
Index	p. 245
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