Jul 13 2023 71 mins 4
For episode 7 of the podcast I am joined by Siobhra Aiken. Her book Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War deconstructs the concept of the Civil War as "the unspeakable war". She outlines the ways in which a raft of Civil War veterans set out to depict their experiences. While considered by the chattering classes to be low brow pulp at best or subliterature at worst, they read now as a secret history of the post-Civil War period and the efforts republican combatants made to write against the compromises of the Free State. Subscribe/support/keep up to date in the following places: https://anchor.fm/daniel-baker89 https://www.patreon.com/danielbaker https://www.echoandthunder.substack.com
