Grounded in Eire: The Story of Two RAF Fliers Interned in Ireland During World War II

by Ralph Keefer

After an unusual interrogation at the hands of the Local Defence Force in County Clare, Keefer and Calder were transferred to a makeshift prison camp in County Kildare B right next to a similar camp for German prisoners. There they found themselves subject to a surreal honour system that allowed them daily parole away from their internment camp, free to golf or cycle across the broad plains of the Curragh without any supervision. This system forbid...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773511423
• ISBN13: 9780773511422
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"