The Disparity of Sacrifice: Irish Recruitment to the British Armed Forces, 1914-1918

by Timothy Bowman

Book Overview

During the First World War approximately 210,000 Irish men and a much smaller, but significant, number of Irish women served in the British armed forces. All were volunteers and a very high proportion were from Catholic and Nationalist communities. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Irish recruitment between 1914 and 1918 for the island of Ireland as a whole. It makes extensive use of previously neglected internal British army recruiting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802077855
• ISBN13: 9781802077858
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 312 Pages