Issues of Truth and Invention
Colm Tóibín: Francis Stuart’s wartime broadcasts, 4 January 2001
The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart
edited by Brendan Barrington.
Lilliput, 192 pp., £25, September 2000,1 901866 54 8 Show More
edited by Brendan Barrington.
Lilliput, 192 pp., £25, September 2000,
“... older than him, and was Maud Gonne’s daughter with the right-wing (and deeply anti-semitic) French politician Lucien Millevoye. (Iseult had had an affair with Ezra Pound before Francis married her; in 1917 Yeats had proposed marriage to her.) Stuart published poetry which Yeats admired. He fought on the Republican side in the Irish Civil War and was ... ”