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Popular memory may be shaped by poetry, but it is in prose that some of the most compelling and innovative literary work about the First World War is to be found
For decades, Britain's cultural memory of the First World War has been dominated by poetry, the principal literary interpretation of the war taught in schools throughout the country. This poetry, argues Max Saunders, is often autobiographic and complements the memoirs that many writers penned in trying to express their experiences of the conflict - showing a complex and fluid relationship between autobiography and narrative. What is largely marginalised in British cultural memory is the novel; yet it is perhaps in this literary form, and in the work of Ford Madox Ford above all, that the most innovative interpretations of the conflict can be found
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Britain's popular understanding of the Great War has been shaped by a restrictive selection of poetry written during and about the conflict
First World War poetry has become one of the defining factors of Britain's memory of the four-year conflict, providing an accessible path towards understanding the emotions and difficulties encountered during this time. Paul O'Prey examines and disputes some of the myths and misconceptions associated with the popular understanding of the vast body of work that arose during and about the Great War.
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133806
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The memory of the war in the British Isles - and Ireland in particular - has been inevitably coloured by political agendas, and the Irish contribution has largely been forgotten. During the First World War, around 35,000 Irishmen - hailing from both the north and south of the island - gave their lives fighting for the British Empire, of which Ireland was then a part. Many tens of thousands more served in Britain's armed forces in theatres around the globe, and especially on the Western Front. Yet this contribution has only recently been recognised by the general pubilc in Ireland; and is largely overlooked by those in Britain. Catriona Pennell explores how tempestuous relationships and political division throughout the twentieth century have coloured the memory of the war within the British Isles.
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