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Book SynopsisFor many Irish, World War I represents the last time Ireland was united as a nation. This volume explores the immediate and continuing impact of the war on Ireland and analyses the effects on Irish national identity and political violence in Ireland.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction - Adrian Gregory and Senia Pašeta
1. Thomas Kettle: An Irish soldier in the army of Europe? - Senia Pašeta
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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