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From Easter Week to Flanders Field : the diaries and letters of John Delaney SJ, 1916-1919 / Thomas Morrissey, SJ.
Van Pelt Library BX4705.D297 M67 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morrissey, Thomas J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Delaney, John, 1883-1956--Diaries.
- Delaney, John, 1883-1956--Correspondance.
- Jesuits--Ireland--Biography.
- Jesuits.
- Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916.
- Ireland.
- History.
- World War, 1914-1918--Belgium--Flanders.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Diaries.
- Physical Description:
- 150 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : Messenger Publications, 2015.
- Summary:
- John Delaney SJ walked the streets of Dublin during Easter Week 1916, recording in a diary everything he encountered along the way. This treasure came to light in the Jesuit archives five years ago, and is reproduced here for the first time. The next year, in 1917, John Delaney was sent to the battle fields of Europe, where he served on the front line as an army chaplain. It is his letters in this instance, provide a first-hands account of the realities of war. Putting both experiences together this volume provides an eye witness account of two major events of the early twentieth century. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Birth to Ordination, 1883-1956 9
- Chapter 2 A Personal Account of Easter Week, 1916 23
- Chapter 3 'On the plains of death': Military Chaplain, 1917-1919 77
- Chapter 4 Final Years on Two Continents 123.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781910248119
- 1910248118
- OCLC:
- 911634973
- Publisher Number:
- 99963958788
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