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The Struggle for Form: Seán O'Faoláin's Autobiographies
This essay examines in detail the two published versions of Seán O'Faoláin's autobiography, \"Vive Moi!\". O'Faoláin had carried out extensive revisions on the 1964 edition before it was reissued posthumously in 1993. These changes cast considerable light on O'Faoláin's lifelong struggle to arrive at a literary genre most suitable to his talents and ambitions. In particular, the revised autobiography reflects regret on O'Faoláin's part that he failed to write a successful novel and goes on to look at his theories generally about the lack of an adequate novel-writing tradition in post-revolutionary Ireland.
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Split My Heart. My Heart. A Novel
The city of Damascus becomes for the author a site of contention between Paul and Marina Esmond just as it is a political battleground between the forces of France, Britain and an emerging Syrian independence movement. Paul is a rising star in the network of British colonial administration and, having spent much of the war serving with the military in North Africa, is promoted to the challenging Damascus post. Ultimately, unwelcome at home and utterly dependant on her errant husband for financial and emotional support, Marina has little choice but to make an uneasy peace with Paul.
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Faith and Duty. The True Story of a Soldier's War in Northern Ireland
0 233 99415 7 This book begins badly; its opening paragraph has the author comparing his need to urinate in a nationalist pub in Armagh with the desire of the Guildford Four to be released from prison for a crime they did not commit. The thematic nature of the book means that we must rely entirely on the word of the narrator and, as with all books about Ireland's so called `Dirty War', Faith and Duty frequently leaves the reader craving hard evidence. Nairac, probably the most written about British soldier of the conflict, plays a pivotal role in later sections of the book which concentrate on the author's undercover work in counties Tyrone and Armagh.
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From Revolution to Republic: Magazines, Modernism, and Modernity in Ireland
This chapter examines six Irish ‘little magazines’ that ran from 1923 to 1954: The Klaxon, The Irish Statesman, The Dublin Magazine, To-Morrow, Ireland To-Day, and The Bell. Irish magazines emerging from the 1920s had the task of questioning issues of identity, of attempting not just to uncover new talent or to set the artistic tone, but to define the culture of a new nation.
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