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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’.