Changing Winds

<p>Set during the turbulent years of World War I this novel explores the ideological and emotional struggles of two young men-one an idealistic Irish nationalist and the other a pragmatic Englishman. As they confront the harsh realities of war politics and personal sacrifice their friendship is tested revealing the complexities of loyalty patriotism and identity in a rapidly changing world.</p><p>St. John Greer Ervine (1883-1971) was an Irish author writer critic and dramatist whose biography of George Bernard Shaw was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Changing Winds (1917) was in part a response to the Easter Rising an insurrection in 1916 mounted by Irish republicans with the aims of ending British rule in Ireland.</p>