Katharine Tynan was an Irish writer who is best known for her novels and poetry. She wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson, using her husband’s last name. She was incredibly prolific, publishing dozens of collections of her work. These include Louise de la Vallière, Cuckoo Songs, Three Fair Maids, or the Burkes of Derrymore, and The Flower of Peace.
‘Joining the Colours’ was published in the midst of the First World War and details the lives of Irish soldiers joining Britain in the fight. The text depicts the soldiers moving through the streets of the city, marching in a parade.
There they go marching all in step so gay!
Smooth-cheeked and golden, food for shells and guns.
Blithely they go as to a wedding day,
The mothers' sons.
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