Of War and Wars Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing

Of War and War’s Alarms is a unique study of war and revolution and their impact on the writing lives of Irish poets and novelists from WW1 and the Easter Rising through the War of Independence to the Spanish Civil War, WWII and the Northern ‘Troubles’.These timely reflections on literature in wartime include such figures as W B Yeats, Thomas MacGreevy, Seamus Heaney along with Francis Ledwidge, Charles Donnelly and Padraic Fiacc, Benedict Kiely, William Trevor, John Hewitt and Christabel Bielenberg. Of War and War’s Alarms is a fascinating narrative that builds upon Gerald Dawe’s achievement in his original ground-breaking anthology of Irish war poems, Earth Voices Whispering.