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This chapter explores the legal charges of treason and treachery as they were inflected through the case of William Joyce, the fascist propagandist better known as Lord Haw Haw. The essay begins by exploring why ‘executions for treason, treachery, and related offences are a key concern of World War II writing’ before unpacking the particular place of Ireland within the British national conversation. Locating the prosecution of Joyce within the dynamics of British–Irish relations, and focusing on Rebecca West’s The Meaning of Treason, this chapter contends that ‘West’s focus on William Joyce’s Irishness’, as well as her foregrounding of Roger Casement’s trial as a precedent, ‘acts simultaneously as a device to both humanise and to other him’. |
