Anzacs and Ireland (original) (raw)

The people of Australia and Ireland have much in common based on genealogy and a shared heritage. The connections between Anzacs and the Irish in World War I have been little known until now. This book tells the story of how those connections were forged. Australian and Irish soldiers fought alongside each other at Gallipoli, the Western Front and in Palestine, and thousands of Irish- born men and women enlisted in the Australian forces. But it was in Ireland itself that Australian soldiers cemented their relationships with Ireland and its people, as tourists on leave, in some cases becoming involved in the Easter Rising of 1916, while some failed to return and are buried in Irish soil.