{"product_id":"the-glorious-madness-tales-of-the-irish-and-the-great-war","title":"The Glorious Madness: Tales of the Irish and the Great War","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the generals and field commanders through to the troopers and nurses on the front lines, the Irish served at every turn in the Great War.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey tore through the skies in flimsy biplanes. They soared across the seas in battleships. They charged across the tortured earth with bayonets fixed. They wrapped bandages and dabbed softly in the field hospitals. They prayed, they sang, they killed, they wept and they died.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePopular historian Turtle Bunbury is renowned for uncovering important forgotten stories from our past. Here he reveals many never-before-heard tales of the Irish heroes and heroines whose lives coincided with one of the most brutal conflicts our world has ever known -- including nuns, artists, sportsmen, poets, aristocrats, nationalists, nurses, clergymen and film directors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns poignant, enlightening, whimsical and darkly comic, this is history as it should be -- free-wheeling and finely tuned to the rhythms of the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Magnificent book...a superb production...something to be proud of...' Gay Byrne on Sunday with Gay Byrne, Lyric FM. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An absolutely beautiful book... A lavish production with lots of pictures, lots of maps - it really captures the whole era.' Patrick Geoghegan on Talking History, Newstalk FM\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A piece of Irish history that was sort of wilfully forgotten for a long time. The Glorious Madness is wall to wall with tales of some very interesting characters, including a number who played an important role in Irish history.' Anton Savage - Savage Sunday, Today FM\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The impressively versatile Turtle Bunbury is known for his sensitively written, well-observed Vanishing Ireland series of books and his appearance on RTE's Genealogy Roadshow. He also toured this year as one of the lecturers in the Great War Roadshow, headed by Myles Dungan. Now, also marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Bunbury marches into what once would have been a no-man's land for historians ... There is much to enjoy here. Bunbury has an eye for irony and pathos and a fluid attractive writing style. It's packed worth personalities and stories of courage under fire amid truly unimaginable slaughter, of mind-boggling military incompetence and of individuals emotionally afflicted by reports of courage in another cause at home. The cast of characters is formidable.' Emmanuel Kehoe, Sunday Business Post\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In The Glorious Madness] Turtle continues the wonderful listening and yarn-spinning he has honed in the Vanishing Ireland series, applying it to veterans of the First World War. The stories he recreates are poignant, whimsical and bleakly funny, bringing back into the light the lives of people who found themselves on the wrong side of history after the struggle for Irish independence. This is my kind of micro-history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e John Grenham, The Irish Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A wonderful book packed with great individual stories and pictures which bring the Irish participation in the Great War vividly alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sean Farrell, Irish Independent\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Based on first-hand accounts of the conflict, this collection of character portraits and stirring anecdotes brings to life the hopes, fears and ambitions that defined Ireland's 'lost generation'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Peter Costello, The Irish Catholic\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Turtle Bunbury's book about the Great War is a great read, a dramatic confection of remarkable stories about remarkable events and individuals slapped together with great dexterity and professionalism. ... 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