JE & ALLW Flashcards
(20 cards)
Stanhope: Strong & respected leader
“He’s a long way the best company commander we’ve got
Stanhope: Alcohol use
“He’s called a drunkard”
Stanhope: Fear of vulnerability
“Do you understand the order?Give me that letter!”
Stanhope: Duty & Loyalty
“If you went - and left Osborne and trotter and all those men up there to do your work - could you ever look a man straight in the face again - in your life”
ALLW quotes: Commradery
“Naked as babies”
“No one was so obviously a private or an officer”
“A dozen men or more who had been bound to him by some bond he didn’t know the explanation of”
“As if Jesse Kirwan were being brought closer and closer to him like a brother”
“It couldn’t have been O’Hara because he had all the manner and care of a friend”
ALLW: Religious Imagery
“Captain Paisley had made his decision and they had made theirs. It was a sacred matter really”
“Always a black shadow now… some afflicted figure there, like an angel or a meagre spectre”
“The absurd bombs followed them religiously”
ALLW: Patriotism
“Good at that sort of thing the Irish”
“I am proud to wear this uniform”
“Millions of lads have died out here maybe millions more will yet”
ALLW: Nature
“Like the torn petals of a flower”
“The war was like a huge dream at the edge of this waking landscape..catastrophe to turn a soul to dry dust”
“Sank into the soapy world”
“Violent moonlight”
ALLW: Homefront
“Region of the dead”
“He had no country he was an orphan, he was alone”
“Were there any wolves in the upshot or just sheep against sheep”
“A jaunty happy thing to go back to his regiment, what remained of it”
“I came out to fight for a country that doesn’t exist…it never will”
“Fucking Tommie, fucking tommies, fucking tommies, go home!”
ALLW: Bravery/Cowardice
“He was a fool to stay there like that, Willie; A fucking eejet as a matter of fact”
“What’s wrong with you fucking Irish? Can’t you take a bit of gas?”
“Call him a traitor though his heart was clear and pure”
ALLW: Masculine Duty
“I’ll hold the fort here sergeant major”
“O’Hara said such a man deserved to have his bollocks cut off”
ALLW: Physical Suffering
“Shaking slowly but he was not causing them to shake”
“Fella screaming on the ground for three hours”
“Head jerking about and his left arm had a mind of its own”
ALLW: Mental Suffering
“A fight without death seemed to a man’s mind like a bird singing in a verdant wood”
“All the words in his brain were swamped by a black ink and obliterated”
“He dug himself as deep as he could..his teeth chattering and wept”
ALLW: Both mental & physical Suffering
“his mind wasn’t thinking of the killed supply party but his hands were”
“The ruined face of captain paisley hung over all like a moon”
“Started to tremble, not from any emotion he knew of”
ALLW: Sacrifice
“Death had been smiling his contented smile”
“Raw men were usually killed first”
“Willie you look as old as Papa now”
“Shoot the most horribly wounded like you would a horse”
ALLW: War being a long time
“Lorry loads of munitions in a great and endless snake”
“Foul carpet of crushed dead”
“Back to his regiment, what remained of it”
ALLW: Horrors
“Long, long monster with yellow skin”
“His face had been lifted by the blast and torn half way off”
“The ration detail hadn’t showed”
“Excellent gas masks…failed to fit his crooked face”
ALLW: Slaughter
“The colonial men were roaring now”
“Men into howling demons”
“King George’s Lambs”
ALLW: Pacifism
“He thought was twisted up in a rope of his own making”
“An Irishman can’t fight this war now. Not after those lads being executed”
ALLW: Propaganda
“If he could not be a policeman, he could be a solidier”
“He said he would go to please his father”
“I’m to give you that feather so you will be feeling bad about not going…to war”
Kitchener’s poster
“Vile hun”
