MESSINES TO CARRICK HILL: writing home from the Great War

TOM BURKE Mercier Press €17.99 ISBN 9781781174845 Reviewed by: Patrick Callan Patrick Callan is a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College, Dublin. Michael Wall enlisted in January 1916 as a second lieutenant in the Royal Irish Regiment. A nineteen-year-old officer, he died during the Battle of Messines in June ... Read more

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