Richard S. Grayson. Dublin’s Great Wars

For many years, the Easter Rising of April 1916 overshadowed Ireland’s substantial engagement with the First World War. Historians have recently emphasized how the Rising, in which Irish separatists occupied sites around Dublin and proclaimed an independent republic, can only be understood within the context of the war. In Dublin’s Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution, Richard S. Grayson makes an important contribution to scholarship on the war’s impact on Ireland with his study of Dubliners who served in British and republican military forces before, during, and after the First World War. In a clearly argued and meticulously researched analysis, Grayson argues that Dublin’s history in these years should be understood as part of a series of interconnected “Great Wars” that extended from the formation of Unionist and nationalist paramilitary forces during the prewar Home Rule crisis to the experience of soldiers...

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