Shared experience--Gallipoli----Called to arms--Australian soldiers and the Easter Rising of 1916----The Irish ANZACS--Irish men and women in the Australian forces--Six-bob-a-day tourists--Australian soldiers on leave in Ireland----Wattle among the shamrocks--Australian
war graves in Ireland----Who fears to speak of '14-'18?--Rememberance in Australia and Ireland----Australian soldiers recorded on Irish war memorials--Australian war graves of the First World War in Ireland.
The people of Australia and Ireland have much in common based on genealogy and a shared heritage. The connections forged between Anzacs and the Irish in World War I have been little known until now. Jeff Kildea tells the story of Australian and Irish soldiers who fought alongside each other at Gallipoli, in France and Belgium and in Palestine. But it was in Ireland itself that Australian soldiers forged their relationships with the Irish people, as tourists, as countrymen returning home and in some cases becoming involved in the Easter Rising of 1916--publisher.
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