The Red and the Green

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Title The Red and the Green

The Red and the Green cover
Author Iris Murdoch
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher
Released 1965
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN NA

The Red and the Green is a 1965 novel by Iris Murdoch that covers the events leading up to and during the Easter Rebellion in Ireland during World War I. It is written in a different style than Murdoch's other fiction, but like the other novels deals with complex family relationships. It is interesting for Murdoch's use of existentialism in the actions of its main protagonist Andrew Chase-White, an Anglo-Irishman who has volunteered and become a young officer in the British forces stationed in Ireland.