In Ireland’s Call BBC journalist Stephen Walker charts the fascinating stories of 40 Irishmen who swapped the sports field for the battlefield – household names who gave up their blossoming careers to volunteer for the Great War.
Using rare archive letters, memoirs and newspaper reports, this compelling book features the stories of sportsmen whose lives were tragically cut short in the mud of the Somme, the despair of Ypres and the heat of Gallipoli. It chronicles the remarkable achievements of Irish international footballers and rugby players, athletes, GAA stars, cricketers, hockey players and a record-breaking Irish champion golfer. A century on, their sacrifices and those of a generation of Irish sporting heroes, are finally and faithfully recorded in this unique and evocative account.
Über den Autor
Stephen Walker is an award-winning BBC journalist of 25 years, and one of Northern Ireland’s best-known broadcasters. He is currently a Political Correspondent with BBC Northern Ireland. Stephen’s first book, Forgotten Soldiers: The Irishmen Shot at Dawn, was short-listed for the 2007 Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year. His second book, Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican, who Defied the Nazi Command, was published in 2011 and was an Irish Times Best Seller.
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