Yeats, Auden, Eliot: 1939, 1940, 1941
Colm Tóibín, 22 January 2026
“... every night. The message was clear: young men would have to give up everything for Ireland. George Bernard Shaw later said that it was a play ‘which might lead a man to do something foolish’. Lennox Robinson wrote that it ‘made more rebels in Ireland than a thousand political speeches or a hundred reasoned books’.Now, at the end of his life, almost a ... ”