Ireland and the Great War

Ireland and the Great WarDescription by Keith Jeffery Paperback This is the first book to give a unified picture of Ireland's experience of the First World War. Unlike any previous work it identifies the similarities of experience of constitutional nationalists, separatist republicans and unionists, and deals with civilian, social, economic and cultural aspects, as well as the purely military. The book also relates the experience of the war and its subsequent commemoration to

pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair hailed the monument in 1961 as "one of the country's great memorials

others were busy inventing chemical warfare—being a scientist trapped you in the power plays of empire

Before long

The Road Back is a classic novel of the slow return of peace to Europe in the years following World War I

a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo

they talk about the war

Fussell grounds literary texts in the mud and trenches of World War I and shows how these poems

and civilians affected by the conflict

On September 29

it reveals that Toby knew he wasn’t coming back and implies that his friend

if a lamp is lighted

Peter Stehman sheds light on the era’s hijacking of civil liberties and a forgotten crime some might say has fallen prey to “patriotic amnesia