[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford195","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Dec 23rd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford195","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Pacifist, Maud Gonne, Orangemen, The Twelfth of July","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford195","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford195.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nNo. 27\n\n23. 12. 1974\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks yrs 22nd.\n\nI was very interested to have yr reminiscence\nabout the start of the last War. Roy was more\nactive than I was in similar ways,but I was in\ncomplete agreement on the pacifist issue. But I\nwas having a semi-breakdown over Irene (my Maud\nGonne). As a result I messed up my university\ncareer which has plagued me since as top-level\nwork goes to those with good paper qualifications.\nAh well...\n\nValerie told me she would send you WEARING OF\nTHE BLACK. Much more chance of a review there\ngetting in fairly soon,though B and B is worth\ndoing. Padraic is very keen to have a reasonable\ncoverage in England.\n\nThere\u2019s a lot of symbolism in the W.O.T.B.\ncover - orange,white and green are the colours of\nthe Irish Republican tricolour. Ironic of course\nsince the Orangemen will fight to the death not\nto be in their Republic! presumably the title is a\nkind of pun on a popular Irish ballad (again\nRepublican) xxxxxxxxxx \"The Wearing o' the Green\"\nwith lines such as \"They're hangin' men and women\nfor the waerin' of the green\" in which \"they\"\nrefers to the English. Had the vote in the House\ngone differently it might have been:\"They're hangin'\nmen and women for a-placin\u2019 o' the bomb\".\n\nTHE GLORIOUS TWELFTH was written in 1943. The parenthesis under\nthe title doesn't make this\n","Type":"Text"}}]