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The commissioners : how two men led the two police forces which became An Garda Síochána / Paul Smyth.

By: Publication details: Dublin : Carrowmore.ie, 2021.Description: xiv, 168 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781739940119
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 941.50821
Summary: The Commissioners tells the stories of two young men who found themselves at the centre of some of the most momentous European events of the early twentieth century before taking up high rank in An Garda Síochána. Paul Smyth draws on these men's own recollections to provide us with an insiders account of the chaos and heroism of daily life in the General Post Office in Dublin during Easter Week 1916 and in the muddy and bloody trenches of the Somme battlefield in the summer of that same year. The scorn visited on the defeated men of the GPO garrison by civilian onlookers as they were marched away to an uncertain future is matched by the disregard shown by official Ireland over many decades to those Irish men and women who fought for freedom of small nations, or the maintenance of empire, from 1914 to 1918. Many great men and women played important parts in the new State and Michael Staines and Major General W.R.E. Murphy were such men. The two represent both the revolutionary nationalist tradition of Patrick Pearse and the parliamentary tradition of John Redmond M.P. This work provides a new perspective on the Garda 'story' and is essential reading for those who wish to fully understand the evolution of the newly independent Irish State and the men and women who were central to the success of the first country to successfully emerge from empire. - Book cover.
List(s) this item appears in: New Acquisitions Summer 2022
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The Commissioners tells the stories of two young men who found themselves at the centre of some of the most momentous European events of the early twentieth century before taking up high rank in An Garda Síochána. Paul Smyth draws on these men's own recollections to provide us with an insiders account of the chaos and heroism of daily life in the General Post Office in Dublin during Easter Week 1916 and in the muddy and bloody trenches of the Somme battlefield in the summer of that same year. The scorn visited on the defeated men of the GPO garrison by civilian onlookers as they were marched away to an uncertain future is matched by the disregard shown by official Ireland over many decades to those Irish men and women who fought for freedom of small nations, or the maintenance of empire, from 1914 to 1918. Many great men and women played important parts in the new State and Michael Staines and Major General W.R.E. Murphy were such men. The two represent both the revolutionary nationalist tradition of Patrick Pearse and the parliamentary tradition of John Redmond M.P. This work provides a new perspective on the Garda 'story' and is essential reading for those who wish to fully understand the evolution of the newly independent Irish State and the men and women who were central to the success of the first country to successfully emerge from empire. - Book cover.

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