This book considers the ways in which memory was represented in novels during the 1940s.
Memory could feature as a structural device, with, for example, the loss of a protagonist's …

Elizabeth Bowen's prose—riddled with inversions, ellipses, subjunctives, and double or
even triple negatives—has been accused of everything from man nerism to willful opacity. 1 …

As Irish republicans sought to rid the country of British rule and influence in the early 20th
century, a clear delineation was made between what was" authentically" Irish and what was …

Louis MacNeice wrote ''Neutrality''in September 1942, after the death of his friend Graham
Sheppard, who drowned in the Atlantic following a German U-boat attack. MacNeice is …

This article examines the propaganda ideas and plans that the British government put
together in an attempt to coax neutral Eire into the Second World War, or at least to make …

Ireland was neutral during the Second World War---the period is known only as" The
Emergency." Cut off from the rest of the world, Irish men and women began to question just …