Book Launch | The Irish Soldier

Join us for the launch of The Irish Soldier: In Peacetime and at War, at Home and Abroad, from Earliest Times to the Present edited by Thomas Bartlett.

Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Galway Nicholas Canny will launch the book at 6.00pm on Friday 23 October 2026 in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop, The Cornstore, Middle St, Galway.

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This edited volume presents some thirty chapters by a team of international scholars reviewing the Irish military experience throughout the world over the past 1000 years with each chapter seeking to address the question of whether or not there was anything distinctive about ‘The Irish soldier’.

Thomas Bartlett MRIA, professor emeritus of Irish history at the University of Aberdeen, has published widely on Irish history and most recently was the general editor for the 4-volume Cambridge History of Ireland (Cambridge, 2018).