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The Irish Classical Self - Poets and Poor Scholars in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Hardcover)
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The Irish Classical Self - Poets and Poor Scholars in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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The Irish Classical Self considers the role of classical languages
and learning in the construction of Irish cultural identities in
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on
the "lower ranks" of society. This eighteenth century notion of the
"classical self" grew partly out of influential identity narratives
developed in the seventeenth century by clerics on the European
continent: responding to influential critiques of the Irish as
ignorant barbarians, they published works demonstrating the value
and antiquity of indigenous culture and made traditional annalistic
claims about the antiquity of Irish and connections between Ireland
and the biblical and classical world broadly known. In the
eighteenth century these and related ideas spread through Irish
poetry, which demonstrated the complex and continuing interaction
of languages in the country: a story of conflict, but also of
communication and amity. The "classical strain" in the context of
the non-elite may seem like an unlikely phenomenon but the volume
exposes the truth in the legend of the classical hedge schools
which offered tuition in Latin and Greek to poor students, for whom
learning and claims to learning had particular meaning and power.
This volume surveys official data on schools and scholars together
with literary and other narratives, showing how the schools,
inherently transgressive because of the Penal Laws, drove concerns
about class and political loyalty and inspired seductive but
contentious retrospectives. It demonstrates that classical
interests among those "in the humbler walks of life" ran in the
same channels as interests in Irish literature and contemporary
Irish poetry and demands a closer look at the phenomenon in its
entirety.
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