From Easter Week to Flanders Field Morrissey Thomas J.Paperback
From Easter Week to Flanders Field Morrissey Thomas J.Paperback John Delaney influenced many people but left scarcely any mark in recorded history. He returned to Dublin in 1913 and during the Easter…
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From Easter Week to Flanders Field Morrissey Thomas J.Paperback
John Delaney influenced many people but left scarcely any mark in recorded history. He returned to Dublin in 1913 and during the Easter Week insurrection, 1916, he walked from one point of military activity to another, chronicling all he saw in his diary. Born in Dublin and educated in Limerick, he became a Jesuit in Belgium before going to work in Ceylon.
He received the Military Cross for outstanding bravery and dedication to his men. This volume contains extracts from his eye-witness accounts of the effects of 1916 on ordinary people in Dublin and its suburbs.In 1917 Delaney was appointed as a war chaplain, serving in France and Flanders, 1917-1919. His letters home from the front are reproduced here, giving first hand accounts of his experiences on the battlefields.Following the war, he returned to Ceylon.
When his health broke down eleven years later, he came
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