March Away My Brothers: Irish Soldiers and Their Music in the First World War - Softcover

MacQuaile, Brendan

9781907535246: March Away My Brothers: Irish Soldiers and Their Music in the First World War

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907535241 ISBN 13: 9781907535246

Publisher: Londubh Books, 2011

Everyone associates 'It's a Long Long Way to Tipperary' with the British forces (although it had nothing to do with Ireland): the First World War also produced classic songs like 'Keep the Home Fires Burning' by Ivor Novello, 'Keep Right On to the End of the Road' by the great performer Harry Lauder and 'Roses of Picardy' by Frederick Weatherly and Haydn Wood, some of which were written to boost the morale not of the soldiers but of their loved ones at home. In each chapter the author focuses on one area of conflict, from the Dardanelles to the Somme, through the personal story of Irishmen who left their jobs in Guinness or Jacobs or unemployment behind to seek adventure in a foreign war, from which many of them never returned.

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