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"The Irish Revival of 1891 to 1922 was an extraordinary era of literary achievement and political ferment. This period generated not only a remarkable crop of poets and writers but also a range of innovative political thinkers and activists. The contributors to this period exchanged ideas and opinions about what Ireland was and could become, yet much of this discourse remains out of print, some of these voices almost forgotten. Handbook of the Irish Revival: An Anthology of Irish Cultural and Political Writings 1891-1922 collects for the first time many of the essays, articles, and letters by renowned figures such as James Joyce, Maud Gonne, W.B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, and J.M. Synge, among others. The anthology also contains pieces by less well-known individuals such as Stopford A. Brooke, Mary Colum, and Helena Molony. Many of the lesser known texts contextualize the social, political, and cultural lives, values, and aspirations of those involved in and on the periphery of the Revivalist movement. The introduction and commentary by Declan Kiberd and P.J. Mathews convey the ideas of a brilliant generation that, in spite of difficulty and demoralization, audaciously shaped a modern Ireland. Divided into sixteen sections covering issues as diverse as literature, religion, drama, education, women's rights, and the 1916 Rising, this is the ultimate reference book for anyone with an interest in Irish literature and history. "My hope is that in reading these pieces readers will be encouraged to go on to engage with the writers involved in more depth. What the editors have done is to have saved for us the evidence of some of the most sensitive, idealistic, often combative people of an extraordinary set of decades that ended a century of devastation and began a new century that presented both a promise and a set of conflicts whose consequences would endure into our own times."--Michael D. Higgins, The President of Ireland, from the book"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Note on the Editors; Contents; Chronology; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Publisher's Introduction; INTRODUCTION; Section One: A Country in Paralysis?; J.M. Synge, 'A Landlord's Garden in County Wicklow'; Emily Lawless-from: 'Famine Roads and Famine Memories'; Peig Sayers, A Battle That Never Happened; Douglas Hyde-from: 'The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland'; D.P. Moran-from: 'The Future of the Irish Nation'; James Joyce-from: 'Ivy Day in the Committee Room'; Augusta Gregory-from: 'Ireland Real, and Ideal'; Michael Davitt-from: The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland. |
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Section Two: A Thought RevivalStandish O'Grady-from: 'A Wet Day'; Standish O'Grady-from: 'The Great Enchantment'; W.B. Yeats, O'Grady as Elegist for Anglo-Ireland; Alice Milligan, 'When I Was a Little Girl'; J.M. Synge, 'The Irish Intellectual Movement'; John Eglinton-from: A Thought Revival; George Russell (AE)-from: 'Village Libraries'; Constance Markiewicz-from: 'Women, Ideals and the Nation'; Mary Colum-from: Life and the Dream; Section Three: Movements and Manifestos; Michael Cusack, 'A Word about Irish Athletics'; Objects of the Irish National Literary Society. |
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From: The Gaelic League Annual ReportHorace Plunkett, The Aims of the Co-operative Movement; Opening Statement of the Irish Literary Theatre; Objects of Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland); from: Manifesto of the Ulster Literary Theatre; from: Report on the Inaugural Feis na nGleann; Sinn Féin Resolutions; from: Pearse's letter to Eoin MacNeill on the founding of St. Enda's School; Ellice Pilkington-from: 'The United Irishwomen: Their Work'; 'Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant'; The Constitution of the Irish Citizen Army; Constitution of The Irish Volunteers. |
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Cumann na mBan (Irish Women's Council)Poblacht Na hÉireann (Proclamation of the Irish Republic); The Democratic Programme of the First Dáil Éireann; from: The Anglo-Irish Treaty; Section Four: Language Revival; PREFACE TO SIMPLELESSONS IN IRISH; CONTEMPORARYIRELAND; DR. ATKINSON'S EVIDENCETO THE ROYAL COMMISSION; 'THE ACADEMIC CLASS ANDTHE AGRARIAN REVOLUTION'; 'LITERATURE ANDTHE IRISH LANGUAGE'; MY OWN STORY; 'IS THE GAELIC LEAGUE A; 'IN PRAISE OFTHE GAELIC LEAGUE'; OUR MOTHER'S WOMB?'; A GAELICMODERNISM?; Section Five: An Irish Literature in English? |
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THE NEED AND USE OFGETTING IRISH LITERATUREINTO THE ENGLISH TONGUE'-ANGLICISING IRELAND'; LOVE SONGS OF CONNACHT; LIFE ANDTHE DREAM; TO THE EDITOR, AN CLAIDHEAMHSOLUIS; THE BATTLE OFTWO CIVILISATIONS'; 'THE LITERARY MOVEMENTIN IRELAND'; HIBERNO-ENGLISH; 'IS THERE AN ANGLO-IRISHLITERATURE?'; 'MO BHUACHAILLCAEL-DUBH \ MY BLACKSLENDER BOY'; LITERATURE IN IRELAND; Section Six: Theatre Matters; OUR IRISH THEATRE; 'IRISH NATIONALCLUBS 1900-1907'; 'STAGING AND COSTUMEIN IRISH DRAMA'; 'WHAT SHOULD BETHE SUBJECTS OFA NATIONAL DRAMA?'; 'THE DAY OFTHE RABBLEMENT'; 'THE IRISHLITERARY THEATRE' |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Ireland. |
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Intellectual life. |
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20th century |
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Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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19th century |
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Ireland -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Manners and customs. |
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Ireland -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Social conditions. |
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Ireland -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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English literature -- Irish authors.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Ireland. |
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. |
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English literature -- Irish authors. |
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. |
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1800-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Kiberd, Declan, editor.
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Mathews, P. J. (Patrick J.), 1969- editor.
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Print version: Handbook of the Irish Revival. Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2016 9780268101305 (DLC) 2016024810 |
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9780268101329 (electronic book) |
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0268101329 (electronic book) |
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9780268101305 (hardback) |
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0268101302 (hardcover) |
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9780268101312 (paper) |
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