Ralph Keefer retells his father's unexpected 1941 internment in neutral Ireland after a wayward RAF mission over Europe. The narrative follows Bobby Keefer and Jack Calder from a tense interrogation in County Clare to a makeshift internment camp in County Kildare.

Life at the camp is described with wry, precise detail: prisoners lived beside a German camp yet operated under an unusual honour system that allowed daily parole for golf, cycling and free movement across the Curragh — a paradox that forbade escape while on parole but obliged officers to attempt escape when back inside camp.

Grounded in Eire illuminates a little-known wartime episode, blending historical detail with human moments and the bonds of friendship that sustained men far from the front lines.

• Setting: Ireland, 1941
• Pages: 263 • Hardcover
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press
• ISBN: 9780773511422

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