Irishfallen Fare Thee Well

In the fouth volume of his autobiography, the great author and playwright re-creates with his unique blend of grim realism and poetic imagery the Ireland of the days when, as he recalls, death lounged by the corner of every Dublin street, or waited in the primrose-spangled lanes. He depicts the turbulence of the Black and Tans, the uneasy truce, the dispute over the treaty, and the bitter feud that raged between its supporters and the Republicans, whil "Eire was deafened and dumfounded and nearly destroyed by gun-peal and slogan-cry"."