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Article: O'Casey's war on war.(Sean O'Casey's Theatre of War)(Book review)
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- Irish Literary Supplement
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- September 22, 2006
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RONALD AYLING Sean O'Casey's Theatre of War The Kalamalka Press, 2004, CDN $10.00.
LIKE MANY OTHER PEOPLE, Ronald Ayling has been greatly troubled by the growing murderousness of the world and by its most powerful nation ... actively pursuing war-mongering policies, led by a White House clique that ignores public opinion." Ayling has being thinking a great deal about modern warfare and its effect on civilian populations. In Scan O'Casey's Theatre of War, Ayling writes with a purpose. This is a small book, less than a hundred pages. But it seems to him that at a time of war and suffering, Sean O'Casey is worth revisiting, because no one has written more ...