"Another Guardian link"

Is this a "blogging record" or are you all getting commisiion? :-)

"Another Guardian link"

Is this a "blogging record" or are you all getting commission? :-)

this rte ratlebag public interview with sebastian barry from april this year is worth a listen to: http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2036704.smil

What I found most interesing about the novel was not the writer's artistic ability, but the historical premise of the story. I didn't know that there were Irishmen who volunteered in the Great War, and the personal and family conflicts that must have ensued.

I have seen this myself. My father-in-law is 1st generation, and volunteered for the U.S. Navy in WW II, but requested pacific duty to avoid fighting by, with, and for the British. I must ask him about this further.

I also need to ask him, and any readers about what was seen by the Brits as de Valera's perfidy in not allowing bases in southern ROI, that would have prevented Ulter and Irish-American swabbies from drowning in the cold N. Altantic.

I wonder what the author's characters would have thought of de Valera after their Great War duty?

Updated to note the Rattlebag interview.

Cheers fmk!

Pete,

Thanks for today's compact edition of the Guardian - my other half went against strict tradition and bought the Times yesterday because of the Cabaret DVD !