Irish Writers and the Thirties: Art, Exile and War Goldstone Katrina
Irish Writers and the Thirties: Art, Exile and War Goldstone Katrina This original study focusing on four Irish writers - Leslie Daiken, Charles Donnelly, Ewart Milne and Michael Sayers - retrieves a…
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Irish Writers and the Thirties: Art, Exile and War Goldstone Katrina
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. The relationships of these writers to George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, T.S. From interwar London to the Spanish Civil War and the USSR, the book examines the lives and work of Irish writers through their writings, their witness texts and their political activism.
The book also explores how Irish literary women on the Left defied marginalization. Eliot, Nancy Cunard, William Carlos Williams and other figures of cultural significance within the interwar period sheds new light on the internationalist aspects of a Leftist cultural history. The impetus of the book is not merely to perform an act of literary salvage but to