NUI First World War Centenary Roll of Honour and Essays

06.11.2024

NUI First World War Centenary Roll of Honour and Essays

Edited by Ronan McGreevy and Emer Purcell
Associate editor Tom Burnell
6pm Thursday 14 November 2024

On 14 November 2024, at 18:00, National University of Ireland will launch NUI First World War Centenary Roll of Honour and Essays, edited by Ronan McGreevy and Emer Purcell, with Tom Burnell as Associate Editor.

In 1919, the National University of Ireland compiled a war list of all students, graduates, and staff of University College Cork, University College Dublin, and University College Galway, who had died or served in the Great War. As part of NUI’s Decade of Centenary programme, the original honour roll is reprinted in this volume along with a collection of essays.

A substantive introduction accompanied by a selection of individual personal profiles brings the men recorded in the roll to life. In addition to NUI’s list, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland’s Honour Roll is also reproduced along with an essay examining NUI doctors who served during the war. For the first time, a list of the chaplains from St Patrick’s College Maynooth is presented and their lives examined.NUI’s women students, graduates, and staff and the ways in which they contributed to the war effort are also explored.

Until recent decades, the history of the Irish men and women who served in the First World War was often neglected, especially in the first years of the fledgling Irish state. In 1919, the NUI Honour Roll preserved the names of these men; over one hundred years later, this book shines a light on the men and women who gave their lives or made huge personal sacrifice during the First World War.

Dr Maurice Manning, Chancellor of NUI 2009-2024, will launch the book.

Published by the National University of Ireland as part of its Decade of Centenary publication series.

Sales and distribution Four Courts Press www.fourcourtspress.ie

 

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