Ireland and the Great War
'A war to unite us all'?
Edited by Adrian Gregory and Senia Paseta
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- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-5925-4
- Pages: 240
- Price: £15.99
- Published Date: June 2002
Description
As the twentieth century drew to a close, people in all parts of Ireland began to recover the memory of the First World War as the last great common experience of the island as a whole. Brings together research whilst re-evaluating older assumptions about the immediate and continuing impact of the war on Ireland. Explores some lesser-known aspects of Ireland's war years as well as including studies of more traditional areas: military, social, cultural, political and economic aspects. Analyses how the experience and memory of the War have contributed to identity formation and the legitimisation of political violence.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Adrian Gregory and Senia Paseta
1. Thomas Kettle: An Irish soldier in the army of Europe? - Senia Paseta
2. Dulce et Decorum: Irish nobles and the Great War 1914-19 - Peter Martin
3. Women and voluntary war work - Eileen Reilly
4. Work, warfare and wages: industrial controls and Irish trade unionism in the First World War - Theresa Moriarty
5. The Arming of Ireland: gun-running and the Great War, 1914-1916 - Ben Novick
6. 'You might as well recruit Germans': British public opinion and the decision to conscript the Irish in 1918 - Adrian Gregory
7. Mobilising the sacred dead: Ulster Unionism, the Great War and the politics of remembrance - James Loughlin
8. Shell-shock, psychiatry, and the Irish soldier during the First World War - Joanna Bourke
9. The road to Belgrade: the experiences of the 10th (Irish) division in the Balkans, 1915-1917 - Philip Orr
10. 'That party politics should divide our tents': nationalism, unionism and the First World War - D. G. Boyce
Notes on contributors
Abbreviations
Index
Editors
Adrian Gregory is a Fellow in Modern History at Pembroke College, Oxford. Senia Paseta is a Fellow in Modern History at St Hugh's College, Oxford