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Ireland’s Call: Irish Sporting Heroes Who Fell in the Great War
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By: Stephen Walker
Publisher: Irish Acdemic Press
Published: September 2015
Pages: 256
Categories: Non-Fiction
Language: English
Available as: Hardback, Ebook
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ISBN-13: 9781785370182
ASIN: 1785370189

Ireland’s Call is the poignant account of the Irish sporting heroes who perished on the battlefields of the Great War. Written by an award-winning BBC journalist and bestselling author, it features the lives of Irish international sports stars from the world of football, rugby, cricket, GAA, athletics and hockey, whose lives ended in the mud of the Somme, the despair of Ypres and the heat of Gallipoli.

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