“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• Unpublished Collections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.