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The Old Gunner and His Medals

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ISBN: 9780951366837
AuthorLynch, Brendan
Pub Date12/12/2020
BindingPaperback
CountryIRL
Dewey823.92
Quick overview The shellshocked Gunner Dan was lucky to survive both the war and the return to his Tipperary village. Over one hundred Great War veterans were murdered. The Old Gunner and His Medals relates how Dan’s unfailing optimism and zest for life enabled him to survive ostracisation. And how he becomes a village celebrity thirty years later, when he unearths his medals with the help of a schoolboy who appreciated his stories and sacrifices.
€12.64

Great War survivor Gunner Dan limped home in the sunshine. He marvelled at the greenery, birdsong and the pleasure of a pint and good company. Peace was a precious gift. His was a great country to be in at summertime. But, going up the hill to his house, he stopped with a start. He recalled the fearful night three decades earlier, when he’d buried his decorations. Ireland had not been such a wonderful country then. Even veterans’ families were not safe.

Below in Silvermines, a soldier’s 70-year-old father, George Sheehan, had been shot dead.

‘Youse may get me, but you’ll never lay hands on me decorations,’ he’d determined.

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Great War survivor Gunner Dan limped home in the sunshine. He marvelled at the greenery, birdsong and the pleasure of a pint and good company. Peace was a precious gift. His was a great country to be in at summertime. But, going up the hill to his house, he stopped with a start. He recalled the fearful night three decades earlier, when he’d buried his decorations. Ireland had not been such a wonderful country then. Even veterans’ families were not safe.

Below in Silvermines, a soldier’s 70-year-old father, George Sheehan, had been shot dead.

‘Youse may get me, but you’ll never lay hands on me decorations,’ he’d determined.

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