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Irish Anzacs: the contribution of the Australian Irish to the Anzac tradition
Ceremony to commemorate Anzac Day held at Parliament House, Sydney on 1 May, 2013
A popularly accepted notion is that during the First World War the Irish in Australia, particularly the Catholic Irish, were opposed to the war and avoided participating in it. This talk challenges that view and endeavours to show that the Australian Irish played their part in the war effort and in building the Anzac tradition.
The Irish Anzacs: Irish men and women in the Australian Imperial Force
15th Annual Shamrock in the Bush Conference, 2-5 August, 2007
This paper looks at the Irish Anzacs – ie. the Irish-born members of the AIF – from a number of aspects: who they were and what they thought of the war; what did some of them do during the war; and how they have been remembered in the land of their birth; and finally, how do these Irish men and women fit into the Anzac legend?
Anzacs and Ireland: the Gallipoli Connection
Brad Patterson and Kathryn Patterson (eds), Ireland and the Irish Antipodes: One World or Worlds Apart?, Anchor Books Australia, Sydney, 2010
To Australians and New Zealanders the Gallipoli campaign is so well known as to form part of the cultural makeup of our two nations. We first imbibed the mythology of the Anzac legend with our mother’s milk and it has been reinforced ever since, while we were at school and generally through the media, particularly each year on 25 April, officially known as Anzac Day and a public holiday to boot. It says a lot about the sense of self irony of our two peoples that we so enthusiastically celebrate the defeat of our armed forces in battle. So imbued are our two nations with this mythology and the tales of the glorious deeds of the Anzacs that many Australians and New Zealanders are surprised to learn that other nationalities took part on the allied side in that faraway campaign against the Turks and that the British and French armies suffered many more casualties at Gallipoli than either the Australians or New Zealanders. They are even more surprised to learn that among the British army contingent were Irishmen, who died in greater numbers than New Zealanders, and that Irish regiments actually served alongside Anzac units in some of the most important battles of the campaign, including Lone Pine and Chunuk Bair, names that to this day respectively resonate with Australians and New Zealanders.
Familia: Ulster Genealogical Review, 2015
This article describes the Irish Anzacs Project that aims to identify all those of Irish birth who enlisted in the Australian military forces during the First World War and to compile a publicly accessible database containing information on each of them.
1916 and All That: The Irish Struggle for Independence and Australian Nationalism
Peter Walter Gray (ed), Passing the Torch: The Aisling Society of Sydney, 1955-2005, Aisling Society, Sydney, 2005
Despite the fact that during the early years of the twentieth century Irish-Australians considered themselves to be victims of British Protestant persecution and identified with Ireland and its struggle, in truth there was a world of difference between what the Irish in Ireland and the Irish in Australia were fighting for, and it was only when the Irish in Ireland won their struggle for independence and proceeded to argue among themselves as to what it truly meant, that this difference became apparent.
HistoryHub: http://historyhub.ie/the-irish-at-gallipoli-by-jeff-kildea, 2014
A series of six podcasts which examines the part played by the Irish during the Gallipoli campaign, looking in particular at the landing on 25 April 1915, the advance to Krithia between April and July, the August offensive, both at Anzac Cove, when Anzacs and Irishmen fought literally shoulder to shoulder, and at Suvla Bay, and finally the evacuation. Episode 1 – Background Episode 2 – The Landing Episode 3 – The Advance to Krithia Episode 4 – The August Offensive (Sari Bair) Episode 5 – The August Offensive (Suvla Bay) Episode 6 – Evacuation and Aftermath
'The Empire Strikes Back': Anzacs and the Easter Rising 1916
Peter Kuch and Lisa Marr (eds), New Zealand’s Responses to the 1916 Rising, Cork University Press, Cork, 2020, 2020
In Easter week 1916, while the citizens of Australia and New Zealand were commemorating the first anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli, that monumental event in the emergence of their two nations, in far away Dublin Anzac soldiers were battling Irish men and women fighting for the emergence of a nation of their own. Many of the Anzacs were veterans of Gallipoli who had been invalided to England suffering from wounds or illness and had taken convalescent leave in Ireland. For them, Ireland was supposed to be a haven from the horrors of modern industrialised warfare. But it soon become a battle front. Anzacs who had enlisted to fight Germans in the fields of France were given rifles and ordered to fight Irishmen on the streets of Dublin. This paper looks at the part played by Anzac soldiers in supressing the Easter Rising, particularly in the defence of Trinity College, and examines the question asked at the time and again recently: Did those Anzacs added “lustre to the deeds of the heroes who fought and died in Gallipoli for the ‘Rights of Small Nations’?”