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Title: The Irish at the Front

Author: Michael MacDonagh

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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

PREFATORY NOTE

This narrative of the more signal feats of the Irish Regiments in
France, Flanders, and at the Dardanelles, is based on letters of
regimental officers and men, interviews with wounded soldiers of the
battalions, and those invalided home, and, also, in several cases, on
the records compiled at the depots.

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, the
trials and the sufferings, the victories and the disasters, and then
turn to the bald and trite official despatches, the dissimilitude of
things, the contrast, is most abrupt and jarring. But so it is,