Gerald Morgan was a postgraduate at Jesus College, Oxford, before moving to Trinity College Dublin, where he still teaches. He was a Fellow of Trinity from 1993 to 2002. His primary research field is medieval literature and his most recent book is The Shaping of English Poetry (Peter Lang, 2010).Gavin Hughes is currently Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin. He holds a PhD from the University of Wales, Lampeter.

• Contents: Sarah Alyn Stacey: Patria non immemor: Ireland and the Liberation of France – Edward Arnold: Irish Neutrality between Vichy France and de Gaulle, 1940-1945 – Gavin Hughes: Commitment, Casualties and Loss: Comparative Aspects of Irish Regiments at Dunkirk 1940 and in Western Europe, 1944-1945 – David Truesdale: Irish Soldiers and the D-Day Airborne Operations – Phyllis Gaffney: A Hospital for the Ruins: The Irish Hospital at Saint-Lô – Kevin Myers: Perceptions of Irish Participation in the Second World War – Fergus D’Arcy: Second World War Graves in Ireland – Gerald Morgan: The Trinity College Dublin War Dead, 1939-1945 – Yvonne McEwen: ‘Their Ancient Valour’: The Politics of Irish Volunteering and Volunteer War Deaths in the Second World War – Donal Buckley: Postscript: ‘And so to D-Day…’.

Gerald Morgan was a postgraduate at Jesus College, Oxford, before moving to Trinity College Dublin, where he still teaches. He was a Fellow of Trinity from 1993 to 2002. His primary research field is medieval literature and his most recent book is The Shaping of English Poetry (Peter Lang, 2010).Gavin Hughes is currently Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin. He holds a PhD from the University of Wales, Lampeter.

• Contents: Sarah Alyn Stacey: Patria non immemor: Ireland and the Liberation of France – Edward Arnold: Irish Neutrality between Vichy France and de Gaulle, 1940-1945 – Gavin Hughes: Commitment, Casualties and Loss: Comparative Aspects of Irish Regiments at Dunkirk 1940 and in Western Europe, 1944-1945 – David Truesdale: Irish Soldiers and the D-Day Airborne Operations – Phyllis Gaffney: A Hospital for the Ruins: The Irish Hospital at Saint-Lô – Kevin Myers: Perceptions of Irish Participation in the Second World War – Fergus D’Arcy: Second World War Graves in Ireland – Gerald Morgan: The Trinity College Dublin War Dead, 1939-1945 – Yvonne McEwen: ‘Their Ancient Valour’: The Politics of Irish Volunteering and Volunteer War Deaths in the Second World War – Donal Buckley: Postscript: ‘And so to D-Day…’.

Gerald Morgan was a postgraduate at Jesus College, Oxford, before moving to Trinity College Dublin, where he still teaches. He was a Fellow of Trinity from 1993 to 2002. His primary research field is medieval literature and his most recent book is The Shaping of English Poetry (Peter Lang, 2010).Gavin Hughes is currently Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin. He holds a PhD from the University of Wales, Lampeter.

• Contents: Sarah Alyn Stacey: Patria non immemor: Ireland and the Liberation of France – Edward Arnold: Irish Neutrality between Vichy France and de Gaulle, 1940-1945 – Gavin Hughes: Commitment, Casualties and Loss: Comparative Aspects of Irish Regiments at Dunkirk 1940 and in Western Europe, 1944-1945 – David Truesdale: Irish Soldiers and the D-Day Airborne Operations – Phyllis Gaffney: A Hospital for the Ruins: The Irish Hospital at Saint-Lô – Kevin Myers: Perceptions of Irish Participation in the Second World War – Fergus D’Arcy: Second World War Graves in Ireland – Gerald Morgan: The Trinity College Dublin War Dead, 1939-1945 – Yvonne McEwen: ‘Their Ancient Valour’: The Politics of Irish Volunteering and Volunteer War Deaths in the Second World War – Donal Buckley: Postscript: ‘And so to D-Day…’.