The Great War in Irish Poetry
Subtitle: W. B. Yeats to Michael Longley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 20, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780199261383
First sentence: On 11 November 1998, eighty years after the Armistice, the Irish president, Mary McAleese, and the British sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II, commemorated the Irish dead of the First World War in a ceremony at Messines in Belgium.