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Irish Voices of the Great War

By: Myles Dungan
Publisher: Merrion
Published: July 2014
Pages: 320
Categories: History
Language: English
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ISBN-13: 9781908928849

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 One. 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.

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