Ireland And The Great War

This book explores the impact both immediate and in its longer historicalperspective of the First World War upon Ireland across the broadest range ofexperience ... » 

This book explores the impact both immediate and in its longer historicalperspective of the First World War upon Ireland across the broadest range ofexperience nationalist unionist Catholic Protestant and in civiliansocial economic and cultural terms as well as purely military. Underscoringthe work is a belief that the Great War is the single most central experiencein twentiethcentury Ireland and that the events of the war years whether athome in Dublin during the Easter Rising or at the European battlefrontconstitute a seamless robe of Irish experience. The book also explorescultural responses to the war and its commemoration since 1918 up to thededication of the Irish Peace Tower in Belgium in November 1998. It arguesthat identifying and exploring the Irish Great War experience can contribute tothe contemporary Irish peace process. «