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History remembers the Easter Rising as Irish rebel against English soldier, but the truth is more complicated. Thousands of British Army soldiers in the Rising were Irishmen. Forty-one Irishmen in the British Army died in action, 106 were wounded. These men became a forgotten part of their country's history.

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History remembers the Easter Rising as Irish rebel against English soldier, but the truth is more complicated. Thousands of British Army soldiers in the Rising were Irishmen. Forty-one Irishmen in the British Army died in action, 106 were wounded. These men became a forgotten part of their country's history.
Autorenporträt
Neil Richardson, from Dublin, lives in Westmeath. His first book, A Coward If I Return, A Hero If I Fall: Stories of Irishmen in WWI, won the Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year award in 2010, and was followed by Dark Times, Decent Men: Stories of Irishmen in WWII (2012). He lectures on military topics in Ireland and abroad and features on national radio and television. Neil is in the Reserve Defence Forces and his family has a military tradition stretching over 150 years.