The Irish in the Resistance: The Untold Stories of the Ordinary Heroes Who Resisted Hitler

by Clodagh Finn, John Morgan

Overview

Highlights the untold stories of Irish men and women who bravely joined the WWII Resistance, risking everything to defy Nazi occupation and aid Allied forces across Europe.

In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited with igniting a spark of resistance which eventually grew into a vast underground network of civilians who took a stand against Nazi occupation in Europe. In this collection of real-life stories, we meet the forgotten Irish men and women who joined the Resistance.

Discover Janie McCarthy, a teacher from Killarney who was active in five different resistance networks in Paris helping allied soldiers to get to safety; Captain John Keany from Cork, who parachuted behind enemy lines to help the Resistance in Italy; and Catherine Crean, the Irish governess born on Moore Street in Dublin, who was arrested for helping the Belgian Resistance and sent to the notorious Ravensbrück concentration camp.

These stories, and many more, chart the course of World War II and remind us of the power of individuals to make a difference.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780717191352
Publisher:	Gill Books
Publication date:	12/05/2024
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Clodagh Finn is a journalist and the author of Through Her Eyes: a history of Ireland in 21 women and A Time to Risk All, She has a degree in French and Archaeology from UCD.

John Morgan studied with Robert Lowell at Harvard, where he won the Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry. At the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he earned his M.F.A. with distinction and was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. In 1976, he moved with his family to Fairbanks, Alaska, to direct the creative writing program at the University of Alaska. This is his eighth poetry collection and his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals, as well as in more than two dozen anthologies. He has won the Discovery Award of the New York Poetry Center, the Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Prize, and first prize in the Carolina Quarterly Poetry Contest, among other awards. In addition he earned a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a Rasmuson Fellowship, and was a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 2009, he served as the first writer-in-residence at Denali National Park. These days, he and his wife Nancy divide their time between Fairbanks and Bellingham, Washington. For more information, you can visit his website at www.johnmorganpoet.com