Burnell, Tom

Tom Burnell lives in Holycross, County Tipperary. He has published ten books, nine of these on the Great War. He is a lexicographer, historian, author, Irish Defence Forces veteran of The Troubles, and ex-research curator of St Mary s Famine and War Museum, Thurles, County Tipperary. Fascinated by the forgotten Irish participants of the Great War he set about chronicling each county Roll of Honour and has completed seventeen of the Irish Republic s twenty-six counties.