Irish Brigades Abroad
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| Author | : Stephen McGarry |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2013-09-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0750952091 |
Irish Brigades Abroad examines the complete history of the Irish regiments in France, Spain, Austria and beyond. Covering the period from King James II's reign of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1685, until the disbandment of the Irish Brigades in France and Spain, this book looks at the origins, formation, recruitment and the exploits of the Irish regiments, including their long years of campaigning from the War of the Grand Alliance in 1688 right through to the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. What emerges is a picture of the old-fashioned virtues of honour, chivalry, integrity and loyalty, of adventure and sacrifice in the name of a greater cause.
| Author | : Giles Tremlett |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 721 |
| Release | : 2020-10-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1408854007 |
** Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award ** 'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best' Fergal Keane The first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy in the fight against fascism. The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation. Over 35,000 volunteers from sixty-one countries around the world came to defend democracy against the troops of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini. Ill-equipped and disorderly, yet fuelled by a shared sense of purpose and potential glory, these disparate groups of idealistic young men and women formed a volunteer army of a size and type unseen since the Crusades, known as the International Brigades. Were they heroes or fools? Saints or bloodthirsty adventurers? And what exactly did they achieve? In this magisterial history, Giles Tremlett tells – for the first time – the story of the Spanish Civil War through the experiences of this remarkable group. Drawing on the Brigades' archives in Moscow, as well as first-hand accounts, The International Brigades captures all the human drama of a historic mission to halt fascist expansion in Europe.
| Author | : Barry McLoughlin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Spain |
| ISBN | : 9781910820582 |
Introduction / McLoughlin and O'Connor -- Ireland and the SCW: the setting, Spain and Europe in 1936, clericalism and anti-clericalism in Spain and Ireland, politics in Ireland / O'Connor -- Northern Ireland and the SCW: contrasting perspectives of Unionists and nationalists on Spain / O'Connor -- First actions: Madrid, Lopera, and the defection of the Irish from the British battalion to the Lincoln battalion in January 1936 / O'Connor -- Blood and Boredom at the Jarama: February-June 1937 / McLoughlin -- Frank Ryan and the politics of the SCW in Ireland / O'Connor -- Republican offensives (I): Pozoblanco, Brunete / McLoughlin -- Republican Offensives (II): Aragón, Teruel / McLoughlin -- Retreat and Capture, March 1938: Irish POWs / McLoughlin -- Frank Ryan's trial and imprisonment, 1938-1939 / McLoughlin -- Attempts to Frank Ryan Released, 1939-1940 / McLoughlin -- The Irish volunteers: discipline, desertion and punishment / McLoughlin and O'Connor -- Over the Ebro: Last battle of the Internationals, July-September 1938 / McLoughlin -- Withdrawal, homecoming, and the politics of commemoration / O'Connor -- Conclusion / McLoughlin and O'Connor.
| Author | : John Cornelius O'Callaghan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 700 |
| Release | : 1883 |
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| Author | : John Cornelius O'Callaghan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 670 |
| Release | : 1886 |
| Genre | : France |
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| Author | : John France |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2008-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004164472 |
Why were mercenaries such a commonplace of war in the medieval and early modern periods and why have they traditionally been so poorly regarded? Who were mercenaries, and how were they distinguished from other soldiers? The contributors to this volume attempt to cast light on these questions.
| Author | : Thomas Bartlett |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 596 |
| Release | : 1997-10-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521629898 |
This is a major, collaborative study of organised military activity and its broad impact on Ireland over the last thousand years or so, from the middle of the first millennium AD to modern times. It integrates the best recent scholarship in military history into its social and political context to provide a comprehensive treatment of the Irish military experience. The eighteen chronologically-organised chapters are written by leading scholars each of whom is an authority on the period in question. Drawing the whole work together is a wide-ranging introductory essay on the 'Irish military tradition' which explores the relationship of Irish society and politics with militarism and military affairs. The text is illustrated throughout by over 120 pictures and maps.
| Author | : Brian Hanley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : |
This guide is designed to help those conducting research in all aspects of Irish military history. Commissioned by the Military Heritage of Ireland Trust, which was established in 2000 to foster knowledge of this heritage, it lists the institutions, archives, public bodies and organizations that specifically hold relevant information on military heritage, relating from the earliest times to the present day. Also included is a listing of fortifications, battle sites and places in Ireland relevant to military events in its broadest sense. Where possible, email, website and telephone details are also included, as are museum and archival depositories opening times. The guide is completed with an extensive bibliography listing books and articles that have been published on military history, particularly those in the last twenty years.
| Author | : Éamonn Ó Ciardha |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Ireland |
| ISBN | : 9781851828050 |
The author shows how early 18th century Irish politics was affected by Jacobitism and how such leanings prevailed until the late 1790s when a new pragmatism began to accommodate Hanoverian integrationists whilst retaining Catholic ideals.
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| Total Pages | : 50 |
| Release | : 1870 |
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