THE IRISH AT THE FRONT

THE IRISH
AT THE FRONT

By MICHAEL MacDONAGH

Author of "Irish Life and Character"

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
JOHN REDMOND, M.P.

HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
1916

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PREFATORY NOTE

This narrative of the more signal feats of the Irish Regiments inFrance, Flanders, and at the Dardanelles, is based on letters ofregimental officers and men, interviews with wounded soldiers of thebattalions, and those invalided home, and, also, in several cases, onthe records compiled at the depôts.

The war is the greatest armed struggle that the world has ever seen,and when we think of the heroism and resolution shown in it, thetrials and the sufferings, the victories and the disasters, and thenturn to the bald and trite official despatches, the dissimilitude ofthings, the contrast, is most abrupt and jarring. But so it is, andprobably we must continue to rely upon the accounts given by the menin the fighting line for any real appreciation of the nature of thewar.

MICHAEL MacDONAGH.

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