"...you buy the book for the colorized photos and they are indeed marvelous." -Historical Miniatures Gaming SocietyThe Emergency in Colour brings wartime Ireland to life in dramatic color.
Through extensive research, the photos presented here have been painstakingly hand-colorized by photographer John O'Byrne, showing what life on the island was like in extraordinary times.
There are over 200 photographs from across the country, many of which have never been published before, all of them accompanied by fascinating and accessible captions from historian Michael B. Barry.