Irish Writers Against War

by Kostick, Conor; Moore, Katherine; Friel, Brian (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780862788254
• ISBN10: 0862788250
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-15
• Publisher: O'Brien Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Editors' Introduction	p. 9
from The Water Star	p. 11
There Are Also Musicians	p. 18
The State of America	p. 19
Suffer the Children	p. 25
War and Despair	p. 28
Of Certain Architects, Technicians and Butchers	p. 29
Tear Duct Capacity	p. 30
from A Star Called Henry	p. 35
from The Shopper and the Boy	p. 39
What Is Fundamentalism?	p. 42
Landmines and Child Soldiers	p. 46
Eisiuint Rialtais	p. 50
When	p. 51
Soldier Asleep	p. 52
News of the Raven	p. 53
Sunday, September 1944	p. 54
Talking with the Cat about World Domination the Day George W. Bush almost Choked on a Pretzel	p. 55
Exiles	p. 56
No War Then	p. 58
from How Many Miles to Babylon?	p. 59
After War	p. 61
A Holy War	p. 62
The Meadow	p. 63
The Fall of Jerusalem, 1099	p. 65
from 1921	p. 70
from The Sinking of the Kenbane Head	p. 78
Everything Changes, Nothing Changes	p. 82
Remembrance	p. 86
Collateral Damage	p. 90
from The Gods and Their Machines	p. 91
River of January	p. 95
from Grace Notes	p. 96
Hope	p. 99
Remembering the Somme	p. 102
Fist	p. 105
The Wound-Man	p. 106
Nayirah	p. 108
War	p. 112
from The Elysium Testament	p. 113
Home from the War	p. 115
from No Peace for Amelia	p. 117
During the Countdown	p. 120
An Maide Buatalse - translation of Michael Augustin's 'The Boot-Tree'	p. 121
English translation	p. 123
The Sack	p. 124
The Glass Eye	p. 130
News	p. 132
from The Singular Thing	p. 133
The Gasmask	p. 138
After Reading a Poem by Yehuda Amichai	p. 139
Behind Glass	p. 141
A Note on the Irish Anti-War Movement	p. 143
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