Strong Words Brave Deeds. The Poetry, Life and Times of Thomas O'Brien, Volunteer in the Spanish Civil War

Klaus, Gustav H. editor, with contributions by J. Bowyer Bell, Sean O hEidirsceoil, Manus O'Riordan

ISBN 10: 0862783763 / ISBN 13: 9780862783761

Edité par The O'Brien Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1994

A propos de cet article

First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED BY MANUS O'RIORDAN, IN RED PEN, ON HALF TITLE PAGE 'November 18 1994, To Sadie and Fred Thomas, in honour of Max Nash on the occasion of the launching of this book. i salud! - Manus O'Riordan'. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, spine slightly faded, not price clipped (£15.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 271pp, illustrated. Poet, playwright, publisher, communist, IRA member and founding member of the revolutionary New Theatre Group, Thomas O'Brien (1914-74), chose the hard road of Left republicanism in the Dublin of the 1930s, at a time when its only rewards were ostracism, victimisation and downright physical attack. His strongest ideological statement was made in 1938, when he went off to fight with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. This book is a collection of his poems and plays, and an account of his life. It also contains letters, personal and political, sent to the war front, as well as memoirs and essays by various contributors, which outline the social climate in pre World War Dublin, and tell of a forgotten but powerful socialist culture. Very scarce signed.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Strong Words Brave Deeds. The Poetry, Life and Times of Thomas O'Brien, Volunteer in the Spanish Civil War
• Éditeur: The O'Brien Press, Dublin, Ireland
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0862783763
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780862783761
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

'I have written poems in words

Now I shall write one in action'

Poet, playwright, publisher, communist, IRA member and founding member of the revolutionary New Theatre Group, Thomas O'Brien (1914-1974) chose the hard road of Left republicanism in the Dublin of the 1930s, at a time when its only rewards were ostracism, victimisation and downright physical attacks. His strongest ideological statement was made in 1938, when he went off to fight with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. This book is a collection of his poems and plays, and an account of his life. It also contains letters, personal and political, sent to the war front, as well as memoirs and essays by various contributors, which outline the social climate in pre-World War Dublin, and tell of a forgotten but powerful socialist culture.

Contributors:

J. Bowyer Bell - Ireland and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39

Sean O hEidirsceoil - A Personal Memoir of the Thirties

Manus O'Riordan - Communism in Dublin in the 1930s

À propos de l'auteur

H Gustav Klaus holds the Chair of British Literature at the University of Rostock. He has taught and lectured in many countries including Australia, Britain, Denmark, France and Spain. He takes special interest in the 'little' tradition of working-class and socialist writing. His first major book was a study of another Spanish volunteer, Christopher Caudwell. This was followed by The Socialist Novel in Britain, ed. (1982), The Literature of Labour (1985), The Rise of Socialist Fiction 1880-1914 ed. (1987) and an anthology of working-class stories, Tramps, Workmates and Revolutionaries (1993).