"Pat and Fritz"
Augusta Gregory (1852-1932)
"Pat and Fritz" typescript draft
1914
A few days after the start of World War I in July 1914, Gregory wrote, "It is hard to believe that the civilized nations are rushing in to take each other's life," and she presciently judged that "we have no knowledge at all of the possibilities of this war," given the new military technology available. Distressed at rising jingoism and unwilling to judge "who began the war," she wrote "Pat and Fritz"and sent it John Quinn; she termed it "a war poem, but not from the fashionable point of view." Its subjects, "a Mayo lad" and a German, arrive at the gates of Heaven unsure of their judgement since they "cannot both be in the right." They are both admitted, however, to become God's warriors.
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