This book adds a major culture-based study to the field of Irish
history. It addresses a topic and touches on themes that continue to be
relevant and debated in contemporary Ireland. Dr.Myers makes a major
contribution to the "New Military History" of Ireland and adds the
memory of the First World War of one of the "small nations" that emerged
in the wake of that conflict to the numerous memory studies that exist
for the primary combatant nations (Britain, France, and Germany). One of
the most useful aspects of this monograph is that it gives life to the
culture of a minority sub-community in Ireland and addresses the
challenges this community faced in order to remain active, and the way
that community interacted with the majority of Irish people throughout
the twentieth, and into the twenty-first century. Therefore, this
project is not simply a snapshot of a specific event in Irish history,
but examines the way that the memory of the war and those who retained
that memory changed and evolved over the course of a century.