Ireland and the Great War 'A war to unite us all' [Paperback]

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.

Acknowledgements

Introduction - Adrian Gregory and Senia Paeta

1. Thomas Kettle: An Irish soldier in the army of Europe? - Senia Paeta

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

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Adrian Gregory is a Fellow in Modern History at Pembroke College, Oxford

Senia Paeta is a Fellow in Modern History at St Hugh's College, Oxford