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By Tom Burke

The publication is dependent round a suite of letters written through a nineteen yr previous Irish officer within the sixth Royal Irish Regiment, 2d Lieutenant Michael Wall from Carrick Hill, close to Malahide in north Co. Dublin. Michael used to be trained through the Christian Brothers in Dublin and destined to check technology at UCD sooner than being seduced by means of the appearance of event via conflict. via contextualising and increasing the content material of Wall’s letters and environment them in the entrenched conflict quarter of the Messines Ridge, Burke bargains a special perception into the ditch lifestyles this younger Irish guy skilled, his disillusionment with struggle and his wish to get domestic. Burke additionally offers an account of the foundation, arrangements and winning execution of the conflict to take Wijtschate on 7 June 1917 during which the sixteenth (Irish) and thirty sixth (Ulster) Divisions performed a pivotal function. In end Burke deals an perception into the contentious topic of remembrance of the 1st global struggle in eire within the past due 1920s

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