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  • Hardcover: 319 pages
  • Publisher: Royal Irish Academy (24 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1904890504
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904890508
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.8 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 236,609 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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From the publishers of "Judging Dev" comes "Our War: Ireland and the Great War". This book, written by some of Ireland's leading historians, provides an Irish perspective on the Great War which saw over 200,000 Irish soldiers fighting. It relays the experience of ordinary Irish people during the war and chronicles the effect this war had, and still has, on Irish society. The lives and deaths of soldiers in the trenches, volunteer nurses, women, politicians and the workforce are all examined. Archival letters, diaries, wills and illustrations are reproduced which document the pride, fear, anxiety and sorrow felt by soldiers, nurses, sweethearts, families and friends. The book accompanies the "RTE Radio 1" series "Our War: Ireland and the Great War", which is being broadcast from November 2008 to late December 2008.

About the Author
JOHN HORNE is Professor of Modern European History at Trinity CollegeDublin where he is Director of the Centre for War Studies. He is a leading expert on the Great War internationally and has published (with Alan Kramer) the prizewinning German Atrocities, 1914. A History of Denial (New Haven, 2001). He is currently editing the Blackwell Companion to the First World War (forthcoming 2009)and writing a history of France in the Great War.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Irish perspective on the Great War, 1 Nov 2008
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This is a stunning full colour richly illustrated publication that is provocative and informative in its thesis and striking in its design.
Some of Ireland's finest historians are contributors. Check out the Jack Duggan series of letters written by a soldier from the day he enlisted to the day before he died in Gallipoli. You cannot but be moved. The green poppy on the front cover is a stroke of genius.The reproduction of original documents thoughout the book is magnificently done; soldiers's wills & letters, cartoons, diary accounts of suicides in the trenches etc. The book accompanies a RTE radio series of the same name.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, buying it for everyone, 10 Nov 2008
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I think this is a perfect present. I've given it to my dad already and he can't get over the fact that you can read soldiers letters as they wrote them on maths notepaper etc.

And there's a thing with the proclamation where a British soldier took it down from the GPO but took layers of recruitment posters down with it, they have a picture of that. I've only read three chapters so far, but I'm looking forward to reading the rest.
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