Two Brothers, Two WarsThe authors namesake uncle, Tom McAlindon, joined the Royal Irish Rifles in 1908 aged seventeen and fought on the Western Front from August 1914 until late 1918. He died agonizingly from dysentery in a military hospital in the south of England, to which he had just been sent from France. His mother and eleven year old brother Denis had made the grim journey from Armagh to be with him. The sight of his beloved and admired brother dying in such distress

New York) in 2002

up until the transfer of power to Michael Collins and the government of the Irish Free State in 1922: ‘No trumpets

-From “Insomnia”

sister canals

and experiences widening social and intellectual contours informed by avid reading in military history

concerns Beckett’s stagecraft

inherited shame – that shaped Irish life in the 1960s

has drawn Senn out in numerous

Beginning with her log of the last journey through the canal in 1955

to an era in which public acceptance has been achieved and paralleled in improved gallery and studio conditions

Some of them will go so far as to explain how and why I ended up a traitor … Do not trust my enemies

This is manifest in the depth of knowledge and in the exhilarating grasp of detail and method to be found in Ireland and the Atlantic Heritage