Occupied France offers literary response

UCC French lecturer Prof Grace Neville recounts how the sinking of the Lusitania shocked France

Occupied France offers literary response

In May 1915, the war that was to end by the previous Christmas was still raging.

Then, on May 7, a speedy resolution to the conflict looked further away than ever when news broke of the sinking of the Lusitania off the Irish coast.

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