Auteur: Fran Brearton

What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath …

Incorrigibly Plural celebrates the diversity and vitality of Louis Mac Neice’s writing. Poets and critics illuminate the work of a writer whose achievement and influence is increasingly recognised as …

Forty chapters, written by leading scholars across the world, describe the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry. The Handbook begins with a consideration of Yeats’s early work, and the legacy of th …

Forty chapters, written by leading scholars across the world, describe the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry. The Handbook begins with a consideration of Yeats’s early work, and the legacy of th …

Michael Allen was a towering figure in the Northern Irish poetry scene and a leading critic of modern Irish poetry. This important book collects Allen’s critical writings on Kavanagh, Mac Neice, Hean …

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"There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, …