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The influence of revivalism is writ large in the history of modern
Ireland, particularly as we commemorate a 'decade of centenaries'.
Yet, whether in Ireland or elsewhere, no study of revivalism as a
critical cultural practice exists, rather one tends to speak of
specific revivals such as the Gothic Revival, the Gaelic Revival
and so on. Surely, beyond the specific circumstances of these
revivals, lies a set of fundamental concerns which arise from our
experience of time, cultural memory and the quest for continuity?
This book seeks to address this question by firstly locating
revivalism within the broader history of ideas and, secondly,
undertaking a conceptual case study of revivalism within Modern
Irish literature. The conceptual development of revivalist
discourse is explored here from the Counter-Reformationists of the
seventeenth century, to the guardians of the scribal tradition in
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Protestant
evangelicals and Irish nationalists and Gaelic League in the
nineteenth century, the Easter Rising and the challenges of
independence in the twentieth century through to the concerns of
contemporary literature in Irish. While literature in Irish has
encountered a steady degree of adversity over the course of the
last four centuries this itself has led to a consciousness of it
own medium. With this has come an awareness of the precariousness
of continuity on the one hand and a glimpse of the transformative
potential of renewal on the other. Revivalism emerges as a response
to a crisis of continuity and a means to realise our own agency.
Fionntan de Brun is Professor of Modern Irish at Maynooth
University
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