Irish Officers in the British Forces, 1922–45

1. Introduction
Steven O’Connor

2. Who Became an Officer?
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3. ‘I was born into an Army family’: Irish Officers and the Family Tradition
Steven O’Connor

4. ‘A great training school for the army’: Irish Officers and the School Influence
Steven O’Connor

5. ‘We were an unwanted surplus’: Irish Medical Emigration and the British Forces
Steven O’Connor

6. ‘We were all Paddys’: the Irish Experience of the British Forces
Steven O’Connor

7. ‘The irreconcilable attitude is apparently confined to the purely political sphere’: Responses in Independent Ireland to an Irish Military Tradition
Steven O’Connor

8. Conclusion
Steven O’Connor

Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Military, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Modern History