The Irish on the Somme

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At 7.30am on 1st July 1916, 60,000 men climbed out of their trenches, across No-Man's-Land and into the history books. The Battle of the Somme, which was to rage for four and a half months, would involve every Irish battalion on the Western Front. This is an invaluable guide for the armchair enthusiast and those visiting the battlefields.