An Officer's Wife in Ireland
is the story of Bloody Sunday 1920
told from a British perspective. This frank, first-hand, account of the IRA
massacre in Dublin, in which 14 British soldiers were killed and a further five
wounded, is told by the wife of one of the injured officers.
She also paints a picture of a ruling class under siege, where there is no such thing as 'behind the lines' and where dinner party place settings always include a loaded revolver.
Tim Pat Coogan writes in his introduction to this book, which was first published in 1921, that the Officer's Wife "has left a valuable picture of what it was like for someone of her now bygone class to live through those last days of British rule in Dublin."
She also paints a picture of a ruling class under siege, where there is no such thing as 'behind the lines' and where dinner party place settings always include a loaded revolver.
Tim Pat Coogan writes in his introduction to this book, which was first published in 1921, that the Officer's Wife "has left a valuable picture of what it was like for someone of her now bygone class to live through those last days of British rule in Dublin."