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      Lieutenant Colonel Dan Harvey has served on operations at home and abroad for over thirty-five years to date. He is the author of Soldiers of the Short Grass: A History of the Curragh Camp (Merrion Press, 2016) and has previously written about major incidents involving Irish Defence Forces members on active overseas peacekeeping services, including Peace Enforcers: The EU Intervention in Chad (2011) and Peacekeepers: Irish Soldiers in the Lebanon (2001).

      From Cork to the Congo,

      from Galway to the Gaza Strip,

      from this legislative assembly to the United Nations,

      Ireland is sending its most talented men,

      to do the world’s most important work,

      the work of peace.

      President John F. Kennedy’s address to Dáil Éireann and

      Seanad Éireann, 28 June 1963

      This book is dedicated to those ‘most talented men’ and women, our Irish Peacekeepers, and especially their families, who for over sixty years and ongoing are ‘doing the world’s most important work, the work of peace’.

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      DAN HARVEY

      FOREWORD BY KEVIN MYERS

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      First published in 2017 by

      Merrion Press

      10 George’s Street

      Newbridge

      Co. Kildare

      Ireland

       www.merrionpress.ie

      © 2017, Dan Harvey

      978-1-78537-111-0 (Paper)

      978-1-78537-112-7 (Cloth)

      978-1-78537-113-4 (Kindle)

      978-1-78537-114-1 (Epub)

      978-1-78537-122-6 (PDF)

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      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved alone, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      Interior design by www.jminfotechindia.com

      Typeset in Minion Pro 11.5/14 pt

      Cover design by www.phoenix-graphicdesign.com

      Cover/jacket front: A lull in hostilities. Despite the severe pressure, morale in C Company remained high. Courtesy of Comdt Ned Kelly (retd) Destroyed Christian militia half-track at entrance to UN Post 6-15 Platoon HQ at At-Tiri, Lebanon, April 1980. Courtesy of Comdt Ned Kelly (retd).

      Cover/jacket back: Members of 33rd Irish Battalion boarding a US Air Force C-124 Globemaster transport plane at Baldonnel Aerodrome, 18 August 1960. Courtesy of the Military Archives, Dublin.

      Printed in Ireland by SPRINT-print Ltd

      Contents

       Maps

       Abbreviations

       Foreword by Kevin Myers

       Introduction: A New Departure

       Part ICongo (1960–4)

       Chapter 1Chaos in the Congo (Niemba)

       Chapter 2Company in Defence (Jadotville)

       Chapter 3The Battle for the Tunnel (Élisabethville)

       Part IILebanon (1980)

       Chapter 4Attack on At-Tiri

       Part IIIKosovo (2004)

       Chapter 5Blocking Position

       Part IVChad (2008)

       Chapter 6The Dead Heart of Africa

       Part VSyria (2013–14)

       Chapter 7Hull Down

       Epilogue

       Roll of Honour

       Author’s Note

       Acknowledgements

       Index

      Maps

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      Abbreviations

ANCArmée Nationale Congolaise (the army of the newly independent Democratic Republic of Congo)
AOArea of Operations
AORArea of Responsibility
APCArmoured Personnel Carrier
APODAirport of Disembarkation
CASEVACCasualty Evacuation
CBCounter Battery (mortar fire)
DFFDe Facto Forces, or the South Lebanese Army (an Israeli-backed Christian militia)
DFSDepartment of Field Support
DPKODepartment

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