Irish Servicewomen in the Great War: From Western Front to the Roaring Twenties

Irish servicewomen answered the 1917 WAAC call, shaping crucial wartime roles and postwar legacies.

When the call went out in 1917 for volunteers willing to serve both at home and on the Western Front in a newly founded Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, young women from every province of Ireland responded just as eagerly as those from homes in Scotland, England and Wales.

Drawn from every class, creed, family background and ability, the girls who came forward to join the WAAC from Ireland had oft...