Mark Cronin

Blackpool to the Front

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'Blackpool to the Front!' was a rallying cry first heard at the Battle of Étreux 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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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84889-836-3
EAN: 9781848898363
Produktnummer: 17917140
Verlag: Gill Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Mark Cronin was born and reared on Dublin Hill in Blackpool, Cork. He gained a great love of history at the North Monastery School. A member of the Blackpool Historical Society and the Western Front Association, his other interests include literature, theatre, cinema and music. His grandfather, Gus Birmingham, was one of the Blackpool men who survived the First World War. The author is donating his royalties to Cork Foyer.