World War I in Irish Art and Literature

<p> Focusing on Ireland's literary and artistic response to World War I this book explores works from a range of perspectives that intervened in Irish political and cultural discourse. Works such as Patrick MacGill's novel <I>The Amateur Army</I> (1915) John Lavery's <I>Daylight Raid from my Studio</I> (1917) and Margaret Barrington's <I>My Cousin Justin</I> (1939) show how the war was fully examined by Irish authors--but was disregarded with the beginning of World War II. Diverse voices challenged prevailing notions of Irish national identity from the bourgeois cosmopolitanism of Tom Kettle to the working-class internationalism of Patrick MacGill to Pamela Hinkson's cynicism about imperial patriarchy.</p>