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Messines to Carrick Hill: Writing Home from the Great War
Tm Burke
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Description for Messines to Carrick Hill: Writing Home from the Great War
paperback. Told through the letters of a young Irish officer, this is the story of Irish soldiers in the First World War and the capture of the Flemish village of Wijtschate on the Messines ridge, just south of Ypres in June 1917. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBG; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135. .
The book is structured around a collection of letters written by a nineteen year old Irish officer in the 6th Royal Irish Regiment, 2nd Lieutenant Michael Wall from Carrick Hill, near Malahide in north Co. Dublin. Michael was educated by the Christian Brothers in Dublin and destined to study science at UCD before being seduced by the illusion of adventure through war. By contextualising and expanding the content of Wall's letters and setting them within the entrenched battle zone of the Messines Ridge, Burke offers a unique insight into the trench life this young Irish man experienced, his disillusionment with ... Read more
The book is structured around a collection of letters written by a nineteen year old Irish officer in the 6th Royal Irish Regiment, 2nd Lieutenant Michael Wall from Carrick Hill, near Malahide in north Co. Dublin. Michael was educated by the Christian Brothers in Dublin and destined to study science at UCD before being seduced by the illusion of adventure through war. By contextualising and expanding the content of Wall's letters and setting them within the entrenched battle zone of the Messines Ridge, Burke offers a unique insight into the trench life this young Irish man experienced, his disillusionment with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The Mercier Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781781174845
SKU
9781781174845
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99-2
About Tm Burke
Tom Burke was a member of the committee behind the Island of Ireland Peace Park in Messines opened in 1998. In August 2004, Tom was awarded an MBE for his contribution to the Northern Ireland peace process He has contributed to several publications on Ireland and the First World War. He was a consultant on several television and radio documentaries ... Read more
Reviews for Messines to Carrick Hill: Writing Home from the Great War
The gripping real life letters of Michael Thomas Wall, a young Irish officer enlisted in the Royal Irish Regiment during World War I. Burke takes one Irishman's story and manages to quietly convey the epic scale of the whole tragic enterprise.
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