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Clare and the Great War
Joe Power
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Description for Clare and the Great War
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 70 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; HBWN; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 550.
Aristocrats and itinerants, unionists and nationalists, Catholics and Protestants - the Great War united thousands of Clare men and women to a cause for which many of them would go out to fight and die. Their motives varied from a sense of duty to 'king and country' to concern about the fate of 'poor Catholic Belgium'; from mercenary motives, fuelled by poverty, to the moral duty to fight for civilization against the 'savage Huns'. Some followed 'Redmond's call' to secure Home Rule, while others enlisted for sheer adventure. The work attempts, for the ... Read more
Aristocrats and itinerants, unionists and nationalists, Catholics and Protestants - the Great War united thousands of Clare men and women to a cause for which many of them would go out to fight and die. Their motives varied from a sense of duty to 'king and country' to concern about the fate of 'poor Catholic Belgium'; from mercenary motives, fuelled by poverty, to the moral duty to fight for civilization against the 'savage Huns'. Some followed 'Redmond's call' to secure Home Rule, while others enlisted for sheer adventure. The work attempts, for the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845888725
SKU
V9781845888725
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Ref
99-1
About Joe Power
Dr Joe Power is an award-wining author and historian, whose PhD thesis was awarded in 2004 by NUI Galway for his history of Clare. He has published numerous book on aspects of Clare history, lectured in the Merriam Summer School, and was a contributor to the RTE Radio documentary on 19th Century Clare.
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