Loss and Failure in High Ground
All of the stories in the collection High Ground were published in the 1980s but the Ireland they portray is that of the 40s and 50s, two or three decades after the founding of a new country, the Free State. The generation of men that took part in the struggle for independence did not get the repub...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2008
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | All of the stories in the collection High Ground were published in the 1980s but the Ireland they portray is that of the 40s and 50s, two or three decades after the founding of a new country, the Free State. The generation of men that took part in the struggle for independence did not get the republic they had hoped for but a semi-independent state with dominion status. After a bitter civil war between those who accepted the Free State and those who would never agree to anything but an indep... |
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