Of War and War's Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing

Author/Contributor(s):	Dawe, Gerald
Publisher:	Cork University Press
Date:	11/30/2015
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Of War and War's Alarms is a unique study of war and revolution and their impact on the writing lives of Irish poets and novelists from WWI and the Easter Rising through the War of Independence to the Spanish Civil War, WWII and the Northern Troubles. These timely reflections on literature in wartime include such figures as W. B. Yeats, Thomas MacGreevy, Seamus Heaney along with Francis Ledwidge, Charles Donnelly and Padraic Fiacc, Benedict Kiely, William Trevor, John Hewitt and Christabel Bielenberg.