“Nailed to the rolls of honour, crucified” : : The War Writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley, and Liam O’Flaherty.

• Author: Starr, Robert.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Ibidem Verlag,, 2019.; {copy}2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (315 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Irish Soldier-Writers -- The Political Situation In Ireland -- Working-Class Identity -- Samuel Hynes's "Myth of The War" -- A Critical Overview Of The Irish Soldier-Writers -- Chapter Overview -- Chapter One: "Laying Open Wounds to the World: Patrick MacGill's Wartime Memoirs The Amateur Army, The Red Horizon and The Great Push" -- Introduction -- Private Patrick MacGill's Irish Identity -- The Similarity of Working Conditions in Peacetime and War -- The Similarity of Work in Peacetime and War -- The Role of Fighting For Patrick MacGill In Peace And War -- Writing As Work -- Private Patrick MacGill An Irish émigré -- Patrick MacGill and Roman Catholicism -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two: "The Psychological Study of a Man on The Western Front": Patrick MacGill'sNovels The Brown Brethren and Fear! -- Introduction -- M.I.7b And Propaganda Writing -- Patrick MacGill's Narrators -- Ireland As Home -- Patrick MacGill's Portrayal Of Killing As Work -- Pan-National Camaraderie And Trauma -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: Mud and Savagery in War: James Hanley's "The Alien Skull" and The German Prisoner -- Introduction -- James Hanley's Early Years -- Two Working-Class Soldiers -- James Hanley's Use Of Roman Catholic Imagery -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: "A Back like Jesus had": Suffering In James Hanley's Our Time is Gone -- Introduction -- James Hanley's Portrayal Of Work On The Home Front -- James Hanley's Portrayal of Work at Sea -- Roman Catholicism and the Conscientious Objector -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five: "A Study of Evil": Liam O'Flaherty's Return of the Brute -- Introduction -- Liam O'Flaherty's Early Life -- Irish Landscape And The Battlefield -- Combat As Work -- Death In Combat -- Trauma In A Working-Class Soldier -- Conclusion.

Chapter Six: "An Enemy of Your country": Liam O'Flaherty's The Black Soul -- Introduction -- Liam O'Flaherty And Rural Ireland -- Continuity: Peacetime Environment As Battlefield -- Wartime Trauma In Peacetime -- A Stranger In One's Own Country -- Irish Mythology -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Newspapers -- Unpublished Collections -- Primary Texts -- Secondary Texts -- Websites Visited.