... in the coming struggle in Europe despite the postponement of the Home Rule Act for the duration of the war. Along with this, the continued regardless of political events in Ireland and the shifting direction of public opinion and his impassioned pleas for chaplains reflected a deep concern for their spiritual...

... Farnese. On both the Catholic and the Protestant sides, dozens of books and pamphlets were printed to motivate the combatants in the service of their faith, and to discipline the armies’ behaviour. This chapter seeks to reconstruct the experience of the Catholic military chaplains before and after...

... Duggan Thomas chaplain Cork Hagan John rector Irish College Rome Irish College Rome Hobbins Thomas CC Arklow Armagh Hoolihan Garry O'Doherty Thomas bishop of Clonfert chaplains confession flying columns funerals gun running last rites republican priests safe houses spies and informers...

... Christianity fortune telling Mesopotamia battlefields dreams premonitions chaplains fatalism YMCA MacDonell Cameron Lieutenant General Plumer Herbert General hysteria masculinity prayer on the battlefields providence Sassoon Siegfried Buxton Denis Bertram Sydney St Leger William Brett Fawcett...

...Historians of the Royal Navy in the age of sail have focused their attention on two groups of men: the commissioned officers and the lower deck. Few have bothered to study the men in the middle: the warrant officers, whose particular skills were necessary on board. Masters, pursers, chaplains...