The Glorious Madness – Tales of the Irish & the Great War (Contents)

 

Foreword

Reviews of The Glorious Madness

An Appreciation by Sebastian Barry

Why I Wrote The Glorious Madness

 

PART ONE: THE WESTERN FRONT

 

Introduction

The Irish Dames of Ypres

Jack Judge (1872-1938) — The Man Who Wrote ‘Tipperary’

The Christmas Truce, 1914 – An Irish Perspective

Hoppy Hardy — Multiple Escapist, Vicious Enemy

Charles FitzClarence: Kildare’s Royal VC winner

Lord Desmond FitzGerald and the Irish Guards – Micks in the Mud

The Life & Death of Alan Appleby Drew (1884-1915)

Fred Harvey’s VC-Winning Super-Jump

Dave Gallaher — The Donegal Man who Captained the All Blacks

Irish Rugby Internationals who were Killed or who Died in the Great War

Death at Hulluch, 1916 – Killer Gas in the Great War

D. D. Sheehan (1873-1948) – An Irish Nationalist in the Great War

The Sheehan Brothers who Took to the Skies

The Short Army Career of Private Kit Conway

Major General Louis Lipsett, CBE, MC (1874–1918)

Colonel Hart-McHarg and Private O’Rourke

Bob Hanna VC — The Lumberjack from County Down

Woodbine Willie — The Soldier’s Poet

Hill 16 — Legends of the Rubble

Tom MacGreevy (1893–1967) – A Modernist Poet at War 

Tom Kettle & Emmet Dalton — Mad Guns and Invisible Wands

The lost letters of William Orpen

Liam O’Flaherty — An Aran Islander at War

The Irish Aces: Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock, VC, Jimmy McCudden and George ‘McIrish’ McElroy, MC

Other Irish air aces

Jack Colvin and Hopit: The Tipperary War Horse (not in book)

Lisnavagh – The War Horse (not in book)

John Condon – The Myth of the Boy Soldier (not in book)

 

PART TWO: THE DARDANELLES

 

Introduction

Sackville Carden and the Naval Attack on the Dardanelles

Admiral Jack de Robeck (1862–1928)

Admiral Francis Kennedy, CB (1862–1939)

The Munsters and the Leinsters at the Battle of Seddelbahr, 1915

The Dublin Pals and Suvla Bay, including the Charge at Kiretch Tepe and the Battle of Scimitar Hill

Admiral Rough FitzGerald and the Order of the White Feather

Cecil Parke (1881-1946) – The Original Clones Cyclone

Brian Desmond Hurst – The Empress of Gallipoli

General Alick Godley and the ANZACs

Well Done Ted – Edward Whitaker Lowndes (1884-1915)

Arthur Corrie Lewin, DSO — Aviator Extraordinaire

 

PART THREE: FORGOTTEN FRONTS

 

Introduction

Sky Patrol with Erskine Childers (North Sea, Gallipoli, Sinai Peninsula)

SS Hibernia, the Duke of Westminster and the Senussi of Libya

Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield (1890–1986) – The Eagle Of Trieste

Knox D’Arcy — The Man who Oiled the Royal Navy

Gunner Tom Barry and the Siege of Kut

Nurse Colhoun and the bombing of Vertekop, 1917

Father Kavanagh and the Sinai-Palestinian Campaign

Colonel Alexander and the Spear-Point Pump

Sergeant Flora Sandes, Serbian Army

 

PART FOUR – IRELAND

 

The Munitionettes

Winnie Letts – A Poet of the Great War

The Sinking of Lusitania, 1915

The Sinking of RMS Leinster, 1918

Cork in 1918