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Wounds : a memoir of love and war / Fergal Keane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keane, Fergal, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Keane, Fergal--Family.
- Keane, Fergal.
- Radio journalists.
- War correspondents.
- Families.
- Ireland--History.
- Ireland.
- History.
- Ireland--History--War of Independence, 1919-1921.
- Ireland--History--Civil War, 1922-1923.
- War correspondents--Ireland.
- Radio journalists--Ireland.
- Kerry (Ireland)--History.
- Kerry (Ireland).
- Kerry (Ireland)--History, Military--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2017.
- Summary:
- A family story of a murder, blood and betrayal that tore an Irish town apart and causes men to be silent still. 'There was a tale about a British soldier being shot on the street outside my grandmother's house. My father told this as a ghost story. The mood of the telling was wistful. The killing had been wrong.
- Contents:
- 1 The Night Sweats with Terror 23
- 2 The Ground Beneath Their Feet 41
- 3 My Dark Fathers 57
- 4 Revolution 77
- 5 Tans 105
- 6 The Abode of Wolves 116
- 7 Sunshine Elsewhere 128
- 8 Assassins 142
- 9 Between Gutter and Cart 161
- 10 Executions 185
- 11 The Republic Bold 197
- 12 The War of the Brothers 216
- 13 A New Ireland 246
- 14 Inheritance 269
- 15 Afterwards 279.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780008189259
- 0008189250
- OCLC:
- 1021069463
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