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Author Keefer, Ralph, 1952-

Title Grounded in Eire : the story of two RAF fliers interned in Ireland during World War II / Ralph Keefer
Published Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 263 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits
Series CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
Contents Contents -- Author's Note -- 1 The Trip Over -- 2 Slainte, and Welcome to County Clare -- 3 The Officers' Bar -- 4 Life on the Curragh -- 5 Celebrating Pearl Harbor -- 6 That Let-Down Feeling -- 7 Waiting for Tipperary -- 8 A Handy Corkscrew -- 9 The New Plan -- 10 Bus A, Please! -- Epilogue
Summary After an unusual interrogation at the hands of the Local Defence Force in County Clare, Keefer and Calder were transferred to a makeshift prison camp in County Kildare B right next to a similar camp for German prisoners. There they found themselves subject to a surreal honour system that allowed them daily parole away from their internment camp, free to golf or cycle across the broad plains of the Curragh without any supervision. This system forbid escape attempts when they were on parole but bound them, as RAF officers, to attempt to escape upon their return to camp. A colourful and often amusing record of events, Grounded in Eire offers insight into this little-known aspect of the war and provides a testament to courage, friendship, and perseverance in the face of unusual obstacles
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Subject Keefer, R. G. (Ralph Gardner), 1917-2012.
Calder, Jack, -1944.
SUBJECT Calder, Jack, -1944 fast
Keefer, R. G. (Ralph Gardner), 1917-2012 fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Irish
Prisoners of war -- Ireland -- Biography
Prisoners of war -- Canada -- Biography
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Canadian
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
HISTORY -- Military -- Canada.
Prisoners of war
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Prisonniers et prisons des Irlandais.
Prisonniers de guerre -- Irlande -- Biographies.
Prisonniers de guerre -- Canada -- Biographies.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Récits personnels canadiens.
Canada
Ireland
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Personal narratives
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004445145
ISBN 9780773564466
0773564462
1282856758
9781282856752
9786612856754
6612856750