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Blackpool to the Front: A Cork Suburb and Ireland's Great War 1914-1918

Posted By: roxul
Date: 1 Jun 2022 20:15:49
Blackpool to the Front: A Cork Suburb and Ireland's Great War 1914-1918

Mark Cronin, "Blackpool to the Front: A Cork Suburb and Ireland's Great War 1914-1918"
English | ISBN: 1848891954 | 2014 | 242 pages | EPUB | 6 MB

Blackpool to the Front! was a rallying cry first heard at treux in August 1914 when the Royal Munster Fusiliers halted an entire German Army Corps. The experience of the hundreds who enlisted from the industrial Cork suburb of Blackpool mirrors the experience of the 200,000 Irishmen who joined up. At least sixty-nine Blackpool men made the ultimate sacrifice: factory workers, sons, husbands, and fathers. Some enlisted to escape poverty, some to defend `the rights of small nations.' They fought in France, Flanders, Gallipoli, Palestine, and on the high seas. This is their story.
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