The Western Front: The Irishmen Who Fought in World War One
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
‘One of our fellows, while a German flare lit up his trench as it shot over it, saw half a dozen of our raw Irishmen on their knees, praying to the Virgin as if their last hour had come.’
Captain Gerald Burgoyne, C Company, 4th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles
The Western Front tells the human story at the heart of a war that cost the lives of 35,000 Irishmen.
Compiled by one of Ireland’s leading military historians, it recounts the experiences of the many ordinary Irishmen from all religions and backgrounds who fought in the Great War. In their own words, these men describe the horror of life in the trenches and their experience of combat during World War One.
The book gives readers a real insight into the hopes, thoughts and fears of the soldiers and officers who served in Irish regiments on the Western Front. Conveying not just the thrill of enlistment and training, but also the harsh reality of life during wartime, The Western Front offers a fascinating portrayal of what it was like to serve in the ‘war to end all wars’.
William Sheehan
WILLIAM SHEEHAN is a military historian and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Higher Education Academy. He has lectured at NUI Maynooth and University College Cork, and is a member of its Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies at the Open University. His previously published works include, The FCA: An Illustrated History, British Voices from the Irish War of Independence and Hearts and Mines: The 5th Division, Ireland 1920-22. His research focuses mainly on British counterinsurgency in the Inter-War Period.
Read more from William Sheehan
British Voices of the Irish War of Independence: The words of British servicemen in Ireland 1918–1921 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The The Western Front: The Irishmen Who Fought in World War One Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Hard Local War: The British Army and the Guerrilla War in Cork 1919-1921 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Western Front
Related ebooks
A Bloody Day: The Irish at Waterloo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHeroic Option: The Irish in the British Army Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An English Queen and Stalingrad: The Story Of Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900–2002) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSalient Points Three: Ypres & Picardy 1914–18 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Great War - Volume 2: The British Campaign in France and Flanders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Irish regiments in the Great War: Discipline and Morale Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Preparatory Prologue: Douglas Haig: Diaries & Letters, 1861–1914 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Autobiography of the Duke of Wellington Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLeeds at War, 1939–45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Battles of Arras: North: Vimy Ridge to Oppy Wood and Gavrelle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Debating Tudor policy in sixteenth-century Ireland: 'Reform' treatises and political discourse Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLena Ashwell: Actress, Patriot, Pioneer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChurchill: An Extraordinary Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Pontefract & Castleford Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Churchill's Britain: From the Antrim Coast to the Isle of Wight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Irishmen in the Great War: Reports from the Front 1914 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSalient Points Two: Ypres Sector, 1914–18 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVisiting the Somme & Ypres Battlefields Made Easy: A Helpful Guide Book for Groups and Individuals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Western Front: Landscape, Tourism and Heritage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrance on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One Bold Deed of Open Treason: The Berlin Diary of Roger Casement 1914-1916 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOld English Customs and Ceremonies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistoriCity or Fragments of Berlin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGermany's High Sea Fleet in the World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoland and the Second World War, 1938–1948 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Liverpool Irish Famine Trail: Revive Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWellington's Men Remembered Volume 1: A Register of Memorials to Soldiers Who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo: A to L Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDefending the Ypres Front, 1914–1918: Trenches, Shelters & Bunkers of the German Army Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Wars & Military For You
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Washington: The Indispensable Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wager Disaster: Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Western Front
0 ratings0 reviews