Rebel by vocation: Sean O'Faolain and the generation of The Bell

This is a comprehensive study of one of the most influential literary groups in post-independence Ireland: the writers and editors of the literary magazine The Bell.

Sean O'Faolain and the generation of writers that matured in the shadows of W.B.

Yeats and James Joyce dominated the literary landscape in Ireland in the build-up to, and during, the Second World War.

This is their story, as told through the history of one journal: The Bell.