Book Details
Barely eighteen years old, Willie Dunne leaves Dublin in 1914 to fight for the Allied cause, largely unaware of the growing political and religious tensions festering back home. Told in Sebastian Barry's characteristically beautiful prose, A Long Long Way evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty and sadness of war, and the divided loyalties that many Irish soldiers felt. Tracing their experiences through the course of the war, the narrative brilliantly explores and dramatises the events of the Easter Rising within Ireland, and how such a seminal political moment came to affect those boys off fighting for the King of England on foreign fields - the paralysing doubts and divisions it caused them.
- Binding Pocket
- Author/s Barry, Sebastian
- ISBN13 9780571231829
- ISBN10 0571231829
- Published 2004
- Language English
A Long Long Way
- Author Sebastian Barry
- Publisher FABER & FABER
- ISBN 9780571231829
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