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| Titre : | Shadows from the Trenches : Veterans of the Great War & the Irish Revolution (1918-1923) |
| Auteurs : | Emmanuel DESTENAY, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Livre |
| Éditeur et lieu d'édition : | Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2021 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-910820-73-5 |
| Format : | 218 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Approximately 150,000 Irish officers and men joined the British Army during the First World War. What happened to them when they returned home? What determining role (if any) did they play? Most importantly, did they fall victims of selective revolutionary violence and face the wrath of the IRA for having fought for the British Crown in 1914-1918?As steamers anchored in Dublin Bay and men disembarked, they began to follow different paths according to their expectations, political beliefs, and often according to the possibilities their mother-land would consent to offer them. Transfers of loyalty and transfers of military skills characterised the demobilisation of those Great War veterans. Hundreds pledged allegiance to the Irish Republican Army while thousands joined the ranks of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the British Army. After the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, ex-servicemen consolidated the institutions of the new Irish Free State whereas a minority remained loyal to the idea of an Irish Republic |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
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| Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité |
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| 941.590 4 DES | Livre | Médiathèque - accès libre | Histoire | Empruntable Disponible |
