Richard S. Grayson (Goldsmi Professor of Twentieth Century History

Dublin's Great Wars

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Produktbeschreibung

The first integrated history of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and Irish Revolution. Richard S. Grayson reveals the importance of First World War experiences to the Easter Rising as well as to the War of Independence and the Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 898g
• ISBN-13: 9781107029255
• ISBN-10: 1107029252
• Artikelnr.: 51963734

Autorenporträt

Richard S. Grayson, of Goldsmiths, University of London, authored Belfast Boys: How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War (2009), edited At War with the 16th Irish Division 1914-1918 (2012), and co-edited Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory in Ireland (2016). He is an associate member of the Northern Ireland WWI Centenary Committee, contributed to the BBC's series Ireland's Great War, co-edits the website Ireland WW1 and works closely with community groups and museums on historical projects.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Prelude: Dublin and conflict, 1899-1914
2. Dublin goes to war
3. Outbreak, 1914
4. Stalemate, 1915
5. Gallipoli: Helles
6. Gallipoli: Suvla Bay
7. Preparations
8. Rising
9. Falling
10. Consequences
11. The Other 1916
12. Success on the Somme
13. Snow and sand
14. Attrition: 1916-17
15. Learning
16. Victory from the jaws of defeat
17. War of Independence
18. Crossovers
19. Civil war
20. Peace
21. Commemoration
Conclusion: three men.