Irish writers and the thirties : art, exile and war /

"This original study focusing on four Irish writers - Leslie Daiken, Charles Donnelly, Ewart Milne and Michael Sayers - retrieves a hitherto neglected episode of Thirties literary history which highlights the local and global aspects of Popular Front cultural movements. From interwar London, to...

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Main Author: Goldstone, Katrina, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge studies in cultural history ; 99
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Online Access:Taylor & Francis
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Table of Contents:
  • Art and exile, 1936-1939. "Dublin to Euston our via dolorosa..."
  • "Life was one long continuum of agitprop"
  • "Equality has ceased to be accorded to us, save on paper"
  • "Visit Leningrad and take off your hat"
  • Art and war, 1936-1945. "I too have heard companion voices die"
  • "Now when all the buildings of Europe don their sackcloth..."
  • Epilogue: Aftermath of the thirties epitaphs and legacies ; "...And on my grave, I see no flowers from any people".