With a focus on mental illness, Shell-shocked British Army veterans in
Ireland provides the first in-depth investigation of disabled Great War
veterans in Ireland. The book is a result of five years of researching
previously untouched archival sources including psychiatric records of
former patients otherwise closed to the public. The remit of the work
contributes to various historiographical fields including disability
history, the social history of medicine, the cultural history of modern
war, the history of psychiatry and Irish studies. It also seeks to
extend the scope of the First World War with an emphasis on how
war-induced disability and trauma continued to affect large numbers of
ex-servicemen beyond the official cessation of the conflict.