From Easter Week to Flanders Field: The Diaries and Letters of John Delaney Sj, 1916-1919

by Thomas J. Morrissey

John Delaney influenced many people but left scarcely any mark in recorded history. Born in Dublin and educated in Limerick, he became a Jesuit in Belgium before going to work in Ceylon. He returned to Dublin in 1913 and during the Easter Week insurrection, 1916, he walked from one point of military activity to another, chronicling all he saw in his diary. This volume contains extracts from his eye-witness accounts of the effects of 1916 on ordinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910248118
• ISBN13: 9781910248119
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Messenger Publications
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"