Glorious Madness - Tales of the Irish and the Great War
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From tragic generals to nuns on the run the extraordinary stories of the Irish on the frontlines of the First World War that you've never heard beforeBased on first-hand accounts of the First World War, The Glorious Madness is a collection of character portraits and stirring anecdotes that brings to life the hopes, fears and ambitions that defined the generation of Irish men and women lost to the catastrophe of the first great modern war.From the generals and field commanders through to the troopers and nurses on the front lines, from the trenches of the Somme to the beaches of Gallipoli, the Irish served at every turn in the Great War.They tore through the skies in flimsy biplanes. They soared across the seas in battleships. They charged across the tortured earth with bayonets fixed. They wrapped bandages and dabbed softly in the field hospitals. They prayed, they sang, they killed, they wept and they died.Popular historian Turtle Bunbury is renowned for uncovering important forgotten stories from our past. Here he reveals many never-before-heard tales of the Irish heroes and heroines whose lives coincided with one of the most brutal conflicts our world has ever known including nuns, artists, sportsmen, poets, aristocrats, nationalists, nurses, clergymen and film directors.From the dramatic story of the nuns of Ypres and their escape to Ireland to found Kylemore Abbey, to the multiple-escapist who became the one-legged nemesis of Michael Collins, and the five tragic, rugby-loving pals from the same Dublin team massacred at Gallipoli, the stories that Turtle Bunbury unearths about Irish men and women offer a new and timely perspective on Irish participation in the Great War.An important book, by turns poignant, enlightening, whimsical and darkly comic, this is history as it should free-wheeling and finely tuned to the rhythms of the human heart.The Glorious Madness: Table of ContentsDedicationEpigraphIntroductionPART ONE: THE WESTERN FRONTThe Western FrontThe Irish Dames of YpresJack Judge the man who wrote 'Tipperary'Hoppy Hardy the multiple escaperCharles FitzClarence Kildare's Royal VC winnerLord Desmond FitzGerald and the MicksIrish Rugby players on the Western FrontCaptain DD Sheehan, MP for Mid-CorkThe short army career of Private Kit ConwayMajor General Louis Lipsett, CBE, MC (18741918)Woodbine Willie the soldiers' poetHill 16 legends of the rubbleTom MacGreevy modernist poet (18931967)Tom Kettle and Emmet Dalton mad guns and invisible wandsSir William OrpenLiam O'Flaherty an Aran islander at warThe Irish air acesPART TWO: THE DARNADELLESThe DardanellesSackville Carden and the naval attack on the DardanellesAdmiral Jack de Robeck (18621928)Admiral Francis Kennedy, CB (18621939)The battle of SeddelbahrThe Dublin Pals and Suvla BayRough Fitzgerald and the Order of the White FeatherCecil Parke the original Clones CycloneBrian Desmond Hurst the Empress of GallipoliGeneral Godley and the ANZACsArthur Corrie Lewin, DSO aviator extraordinairePART THREE: FORGOTTEN FRONTSForgotten FrontsSky patrol with Erskine ChildersHibernia and the Senussi of LibyaThe Eagle of TriesteKnox D'Arcy the man who oiled the Royal NavyGunner Tom Barry and the Siege of KutNurse Colhoun and the bombing of VertekopFather Kavanagh and the Sinai-Palestine CampaignColonel Alexander and the spear-point pumpSergeant Major Flora Sandes, Serbian ArmyNotesBibliography
Autor: | Turtle Bunbury |
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EAN: | 9780717166145 |
eBook Format: | ePUB |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 17.10.2014 |
Untertitel: | First-hand accounts of Irish men and women in the First World War |
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