Irish Officers in the British Forces, 1922-45 [electronic resource] /
O'Connor, Steven.author.
Irish Officers in the British forces, 1922-45 looks at the reasons why young Irish people took the king's commission, including the family tradition, the school influence and the employment motive. It explores their subsequent experiences in the forces and the responses in independent Ireland to the continuation of this British military connection.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Irish recruitment to the British forces, 1750-1921; The British forces and Irish history since 1922; 1 Who Became an Officer?; The interwar period; Officer recruitment from other British dominions; The Second World War; Irish nationality and the British army; Irish recruitment and the Commonwealth context; 2 'I was born into an Army family': Irish Officers and the Family Tradition; The Anglo-Irish and the family tradition, 1650-1945; The impact of the First World War on the family tradition
3 'A great training school for the army': Irish Officers and the School InfluenceBritish public schools and officer recruitment; The military tradition in Irish Protestant schools; The military tradition in Irish Catholic schools; 4 'We were an unwanted surplus': Irish Medical Emigration and the British Forces; Irish doctors in the British forces, 1850-1921; The push factors behind Irish medical emigration, 1922-45; Patterns in recruitment to the British forces, 1922-45; 5 'We were all Paddys': the Irish Experience of the British Forces; British policy on recruitment from Ireland
Irish identity in the British forcesThe Irish immigrant experience of wartime Britain; The experience of Commonwealth personnel in the British forces; The Irish Catholic experience of the British forces; 6 'The irreconcilable attitude is apparently confined to the purely political sphere': Responses in Independent Ireland to an Irish Military Tradition; The British Legion and the shared military past, 1922-33; Public responses to the upsurge in recruitment, 1934-39; The enforcement of a 'neutral-mindedness', 1939-45; Conclusion
Appendix: Building a Database of Irish Officers in the British ForcesNotes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Irish Officers in the British forces, 1922-45 looks at the reasons why young Irish people took the king's commission, including the family tradition, the school influence and the employment motive. It explores their subsequent experiences in the forces and the responses in independent Ireland to the continuation of this British military connection.
Great Britain-History.
Military history.
World War, 1939-1945.
History, Modern.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Military.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
Modern History.