Ireland and the Great War

Klappentext This book gives a unified picture of Ireland's experience of the First World War. Zusammenfassung This book gives a unified picture of Ireland's experience of the Great War. It identifies the similarities of political experience! and deals with civilian! social! economic and cultural aspects! as well as the purely military. It also relates the experience of the war to contemporary politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Obligation: 'Irishmen remember Belgium'; 2. Participation: Suvla Bay, the Somme and the Easter Rising: the military experience of the war, abroad and at home; 3. Imagination: onlookers in France: Irish cultural responses to the war; 4. Commemoration: 'Turning the 11th November into the 12th July': Irish politics and the collective memory of war; Bibliographical essay.

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• Authors: Keith Jeffery, Keith (Professor Jeffery, Jeffery Keith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521292634
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29263-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, First World War, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Ireland, British & Irish history, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I