Irish Writers and the Thirties

This book retrieves a neglected episode in Left cultural histories, placing Irish writers in the company of a broader international group of poets, writers and journalists, who were part of a Popular Front cultural movement in the Thirties, opposed to fascism and witness to the Spanish Civil War.

Katrina Goldstone is an independent researcher and scholar who has been a regular writer and commentator for publications and radio programmess in Ireland and the UK on minorities, cultural diversity and Jewish communities.

Part 1: Art and Exile, 1936-1939 Introduction 1. "Dublin to Euston our Via Dolorosa..." 2. "Life was one long continuum of agitprop" 3. "Equality has ceased to be accorded to us, save on paper" 4. "Visit Leningrad and take off your hat" Part 2: Art and War, 1936-1945 5. "I too have heard companion voices die" 6. "Now when all the buildings of Europe don their sackcloth...". Epilogue: Aftermath of the Thirties Epitaphs and Legacies: "... And on my grave, I see no flowers from any people"