Wherever the Firing Line Extends

Ireland and the Western Front

Ronan McGreevy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2016
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84588-873-2 (ISBN)

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The First World War was the biggest conflict in Irish history. More men served and more men died than in all the wars before or since that the Irish fought in. Often forgotten at home and written out of Irish history, the Irish soldiers and their regiments found themselves more honoured in foreign fields. From the first shot monument in Mons to the plaque to the Royal Irish Lancers who liberated the town on Armistice Day 1918, Ronan McGreevy takes a tour of the Western Front. At a time when Ireland is revisiting its history and its place in the world, McGreevy looks at those places where the Irish made their mark and are remembered in the monuments, cemeteries and landscapes of France and Flanders.

Ronan McGreevy is a journalist and videographer. He has worked for The Times, the BBC and Sky News. He is currently a journalist and videographer with The Irish Times. His first book is Wherever the Firing Line Extends: Ireland and the Western Front. He is the editor of Centenary – Ireland Remembers 1916, the official Irish State book marking the centenary of the Easter Rising to be published in the autumn of 2017. He is also the editor of Was it for This? Reflections on the Easter Rising. Was it for This? is based on The Irish Times archives. It includes contributions from John Redmond, John Dillon, Roger Casement, Vladimir Lenin, Sean O'Casey, John McGahern, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Diarmaid Ferriter. In addition he is the editor of two ebooks, also from The Irish Times archives. `Twas Better to Die: The Irish Times and Gallipoli 1915-2015 and The Mad Guns: Reflections of the Battle of the Somme 1916-2016. He is also the presenter of the documentary film United Ireland: how nationalists and unionists fought together in Flanders funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs which tells the story of how the 16th (Irish) Division and the 36th (Ulster) Division fought together in Flanders in 1917. The trailer can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7BNQfXidfI&list=PLIizmAISOgldXz80e96hrlO1_K2X6XhiY&index=1

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.6.2016
Vorwort	President Mary McAleese
Zusatzinfo	8 Plates, color; 20 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-84588-873-1 / 1845888731
ISBN-13	978-1-84588-873-2 / 9781845888732
Zustand	Neuware