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In the last decade there has been a plethora of books about Irish soldiers in the First World War, yet the fact that recruitment to the British forces continued into the interwar period and the Second World War has received comparatively little attention. Steven O'Connor's work addresses this gap by providing a much-needed assessment of officer recruitment to the British military after Irish independence. Based on archival research, oral testimony and a database of 1,000 officers it examines the reasons why young Irish people took the king's commission. It explores their subsequent experiences and identity in the forces, and places them within the wider context of Commonwealth recruitment to the British forces. Drawing on evidence from police reports, debates in town councils and local newspapers this volume also offers the first comprehensive account of reactions in independent Ireland to British recruitment and the shared military past.
This book showcases new historical research on foreign soldiers, including an overview of the early modern period and numerous case studies which cover the last 175 years and stretch over 5 continents. The last two decades have seen the term 'foreign fighter' enter our everyday vocabulary. The insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Syrian Civil War and the rise and fall of the Islamic State group have sparked public interest in the phenomenon of people choosing to leave their own country and fight in a foreign conflict. Foreign fighters, their origins, motives, activities and potential danger to their home countries have become subjects of debate, attracting contributions from politicians, military personnel, the media, political scientists, legal scholars but to a much lesser extent from historians. The ten essayss in this volume showcase new historical research on foreign military labour. The aim of the volume is to better understand the experiences and challenges faced by both the foreigners and the host country, particularly its armed forces, and to highlight the significance of these trends to the contemporary debate on foreign fighters. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal European Review of History.
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.
In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant youth, both orphans and
runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping
these children into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young
minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical solution to the
problem by creating the Children's Aid Society, an organization
that fought to provide homeless children with shelter, education,
and, for many, a new family in the country. Combining a biography
of Brace with firsthand accounts of orphans, Stephen O'Connor here
tells of the orphan trains that, between 1854 and 1929, spirited
away some 250,000 destitute children to rural homes in every one of
the forty-eight contiguous states.
An epic, adventurous tale of a family of genetically enhanced human beings, with one member deciding on becoming a vigilante in order to combat the rising level of crime in Brisbane City. Steven Lockyer embarks on starting a vigilante crusade with the backing of his aunt Stefani Lockyer. He assumes the identity of Omega Magnus. Along the way he deals with mercenaries, a secret organisation, a benefactor and a outrageous political cult. Along the way, he deals with keeping his family together, and he eventually and unexpectedly finds love. The first Volume in this epic series of Omega Magnus and his family, and their adventures and perils in an action-adventure series.
STEPHEN O'CONNOR IS ONE OF TODAY'S MOST GIFTED AND ORIGINAL
WRITERS. In "Here Comes Another Lesson, "O'Connor, whose stories
have appeared in "The New Yorker, Conjunctions, "and many other
places, fearlessly depicts a world that no longer quite makes
sense. Ranging from the wildly inventive to the vividly realistic,
these brilliant stories offer tender portraits of idealists who
cannot live according to their own ideals and of lovers baffled by
the realities of love.
Putting a human face on dire statistics about inner-city schools, Stephen O'Connor describes how his junior high school students--struggling to make sense of lives touched by violence, poverty, and broken families--discovered their own voices by writing and performing two plays.
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