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Soldiers of the short grass : a history of the Curragh Camp
- Title
- Soldiers of the short grass : a history of the Curragh Camp / Dan Harvey.
- Author
- Harvey, Dan, 1959-
- Publication
- Newbridge, Co. Kildare : Merrion Press, 2016.
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- Description
- x, 196 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- There is one location, more than any other, that is inextricably linked to Irish military history -- its memory indelibly etched in the minds of the thousands of personnel who have trained and worked there: the Curragh Camp, County Kildare. This book is the first complete history of the Curragh Camp, from its foundation in 1855 to the present day, under both British and Irish occupation. This unique military base has been key in shaping Irish history while being shaped in turn by the great national and international conflicts of the 19th and 20th centuries: the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Great War, the Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence, which are all accounted for under the banner of the British Army in Part One. At noon on May 16th, 1922 the first Irish Tricolour was hoisted overhead the Curragh Camp in a ceremony that would have been unthinkable to the camp's residents of the previous seventy years. Yet the transition siganlled no change to its level of service: the Curragh's forces were quickly embroiled in the Irish Civil War, later oversaw the years of the modern Troubles, and forged an international role with Irish Defence Forces peacekeeping duties abroad -- each conflict and intervention is fully represented in the title's second section, The Irish. This is the most authoritative history of a vital institution that has shaped Irish affairs during periods of domestic turmoil as well as defining its military role on the international stage --Publisher.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-181) and index.
- Contents
- Part I. The British. Chapter 1. Construction and consolidation of the Curragh Camp. Chapter 2. Royalty, rebels and reform. Chapter 3. By the turn of the century. Chapter 4. The war years. Chapter 5. The Easter Rising, 1916. Chapter 6. The War of Independence. -- Part II. The Irish. Chapter 7. The Civil War. Chapter 8. From a revolutionary to a regular army. Chapter 9. A state of emergency. Chapter 10. Calm before a storm. Chapter 11. A global outlook. Chapter 12. The task of modernization. -- Afterword -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9781785370625
- 1785370626
- 9781785370618
- 1785370618
- 9781785370632 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781785370656 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017380287
- OCLC
- ocn967719049
- 967719049
- SCSB-1860678
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library