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Irish officers in the British forces, 1922-45 / Steven O'Connor.

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In the last decade there has been a plethora of books about Irish soldiers in the First World War, yet the fact that recruitment to the British forces continued into the interwar period and the Second World War has received comparatively little attention. Steven O'Connor's work addresses t...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: O'Connor, Steven (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Army > Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
Great Britain. > Army > Irish regiments > History.
Foreign enlistment > Ireland > History > 20th century.
Great Britain. > Army.
Foreign enlistment.
Recruiting and enlistment.
Ireland.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Who Became an Officer?
  • 2. 'I was born into an Army family': Irish Officers and the Family Tradition
  • 3. 'A great training school for the army': Irish Officers and the School Influence
  • 4. 'We were an unwanted surplus': Irish Medical Emigration and the British Forces
  • 5. 'We were all Paddys': The Irish Experience of the British Forces
  • 6. 'The irreconcilable attitude is apparently confined to the purely political sphere': Responses in Independent Ireland to an Irish Military Tradition.

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