Michael Robinson is a Leverhulme Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Liverpool

• Introduction1: ‘A Definitive Neurasthenic Temperament’?: The Irish Tommy and Veteran2. Neurasthenic Pensioners in Revolutionary Ireland, 1918-19213. Neurasthenic Pensioners in the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland, 1922-19394. The War Hospital in Ireland5. The Service Patient Scheme in Ireland BibliographyIndex

'Michael Robinson’s study is a welcome addition to the study of war-related mental disabilities. [...] this is a balanced study that will be a welcome addition to scholars interested in the detailed history of mentally disturbed Great War veterans. The depth and breadth of research is a model for how to approach such a subject.'H-Disability'Michael Robinson has done an outstanding service both to twentieth-century Irish history and to medical military history more widely in his study of shell-shocked British army veterans in Ireland between 1918 and 1939. [...] As such it is a fine addition not only to the field of disability history but also to the wider social history of the time.'Irish Historical Studies