The Irish at the Front
by Michael MacDonagh
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About this eBook
- Author
- MacDonagh, Michael, 1862-1946
- Credits
- Produced by Jeannie Howse, David Clarke and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)
- Subject
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 33222
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33222
- Release Date
- July 22, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.THE IRISH AT THE FRONT — THE IRISH AT THE FRONT
- 3.By MICHAEL MacDONAGH — Author of "Irish Life and Character" — WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN REDMOND, M.P. — PREFATORY NOTE — CONTENTS — A DAUNTLESS BATTLE LINE ToC — THE IRISH REGIMENTS AND THEIR WAR HONOURS — Irish Guards. — Royal Irish Regiment. — Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. — Royal Irish Rifles. — Royal Irish Fusiliers. — Connaught Rangers. — Leinster Regiment. — Royal Munster Fusiliers. — Royal Dublin Fusiliers. — 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards. — 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons. — 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers. — 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars.
- 4.THE IRISH AT THE FRONT — INTRODUCTION ToC — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER I — THE RETREAT FROM MONS ToC — HOW THE MUNSTERS SAVED THE GUNS AND GOT RINGED ROUND WITH FIRE — CHAPTER II — BATTLE OF THE RIVERS ToC — RALLY OF THE IRISH GUARDS TO THE GREEN FLAG — CHAPTER III — CONTEST FOR THE CHANNEL COAST ToC — IMPETUOUS DASH OF LEINSTERS AND ROYAL IRISH, AND GRIM TENACITY OF IRISH GUARDS AND RIFLES — CHAPTER IV — ASPHYXIATING GAS AND LIQUID FIRE ToC — CHARGE OF THE LIVERPOOL IRISH AT FESTUBERT; A NIGHT SURPRISE BY THE INNISKILLINGS — CHAPTER V — THE IMMORTAL STORY ToC — LANDING OF THE DUBLINS AND MUNSTERS AT THE DARDANELLES — CHAPTER VI — THE 10TH IRISH DIVISION IN GALLIPOLI ToC — LANDING AT SUVLA BAY, AND CAPTURE OF CHOCOLATE HILL — CHAPTER VII — IN THE REST CAMP ToC — HOW THE LEINSTERS CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF THE NARROWS — CHAPTER VIII — FIGHT FOR KISLAH DAGH ToC — GALLANT STAND AND FALL OF THE 7TH DUBLINS — CHAPTER IX — FOR CROSS AND CROWN ToC — DEATH IN ACTION OF FATHER FINN OF THE DUBLINS AND FATHER GWYNN OF THE IRISH GUARDS — CHAPTER X — THE GREAT PUSH AT LOOS ToC — HISTORIC FOOTBALL CHARGE OF THE LONDON IRISH, WITH THE GERMAN TRENCHES AS GOAL — CHAPTER XI — THE VICTORIA CROSS ToC — A NOBLE BAND OF IRISH HEROES, OFFICERS AND MEN — CHAPTER XII — "FOR VALOUR" ToC — STORIES OF OTHER V.C.'S, INCLUDING MICHAEL O'LEARY, WHO UPHELD IRELAND'S TRADITION OF GALLANTRY — THE END — THE IRISH NUNS OF YPRES — AN APPEAL
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