O'Flaherty V.C.: A Recruiting Pamphlet by Bernard Shaw
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"O'Flaherty V.C.: A Recruiting Pamphlet" by Bernard Shaw is a comic one-act play written in 1915 during World War I. An Irish soldier returns home after winning the Victoria Cross, only to face his Fenian mother's fury upon discovering he fought for the British. His materialistic girlfriend and domestic conflicts drive him to prefer the trenches over provincial Irish life. Shaw's anti-war satire tackles recruitment, patriotism, and Irish poverty, proving too controversial
for wartime Dublin authorities who banned its performance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 |
|---|---|
| Title | O'Flaherty V.C.: A Recruiting Pamphlet |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Flaherty_V.C. |
| Credits | Produced by Eve Sobol, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 81.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Comedy plays |
| Subject | Ireland -- Drama |
| Subject | World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Drama |
| Subject | World War, 1914-1918 -- Ireland -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 3484 |
| Release Date | Oct 1, 2002 |
| Last Update | Dec 13, 2012 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 403 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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