Big Read: The Irish of Dunkirk

Many Cork and Irish lives were lost in the Battle of France, writes Damian Shiels

Last week saw the cinematic release of Dunkirk, the new Christopher Nolan epic set against the backdrop of the 1940 British military evacuation from France.

It is a rare moment in the spotlight for this ‘glorious defeat’, so often overshadowed by the war’s later events such as D-Day.