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The Irish Revival of 1891 to 1922 was an extraordinary era that
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 lesser-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.
P. J. MATHEWS ARGUES AGAINST the received opinion that the Irish
Revival was a purely mystical affair of high culture characterized
by a preoccupation with a backward-looking Celtic spirituality,
nostalgia for Gaelic Ireland, and anti-modern traditionalism.
Instead, he claims, the time of the Irish Revival was a progressive
period that witnessed the cooperation of various self-help
movements -- the Abbey Theatre, the Gaelic League, and the Irish
Agricultural Organization Society -- which encouraged local modes
of material and cultural development. These different groups were
bound together by their willingness to use traditional cultural
forms as the basis for an alternative modernization project.
Mathews points out that these self-help initiatives were so
successful that they very quickly opened up a sphere of influence
rivaling that of parliamentary politics. Much of this activity laid
the groundwork for the emergence of the Sinn Fein in 1905. Making
use of important theater productions of the period, Mathews
skillfully traces the connections and overlaps among these radical
movements and demonstrates that the self-help idea was crucial to
the decolonization and modernization of Irish society during the
early years of the twentieth century.
The Irish Revival of 1891 to 1922 was an extraordinary era that
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 lesser-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.
John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the Irish
Revival who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin's
Abbey Theatre in 1904. This Companion offers a comprehensive
introduction to the whole range of Synge's work from well-known
plays like Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints and The
Playboy of the Western World, to his influential prose work The
Aran Islands. The essays provide detailed and insightful analyses
of individual texts, as well as perceptive reflections on his
engagements with the Irish language, processes of decolonisation,
gender, modernism and European culture. Critical accounts of
landmark productions in Ireland and America are also included. With
a guide to further reading and a chronology, this book will
introduce students of drama, postcolonial studies, and Irish
studies as well as theatregoers to one of the most influential and
controversial dramatists of the twentieth century.
John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the Irish
Revival who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin's
Abbey Theatre in 1904. This Companion offers a comprehensive
introduction to the whole range of Synge's work from well-known
plays like Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints and The
Playboy of the Western World, to his influential prose work The
Aran Islands. The essays provide detailed and insightful analyses
of individual texts, as well as perceptive reflections on his
engagements with the Irish language, processes of decolonisation,
gender, modernism and European culture. Critical accounts of
landmark productions in Ireland and America are also included. With
a guide to further reading and a chronology, this book will
introduce students of drama, postcolonial studies, and Irish
studies as well as theatregoers to one of the most influential and
controversial dramatists of the twentieth century.
This book works against the orthodoxy that the Irish Revival was as
a purely mystical affair of high culture characterised by a
preoccupation with a backward-looking Celtic spirituality,
nostalgia for Gaelic Ireland and an obsessive anti-modern
traditionalism. The central argument advanced is that the Irish
Revival can be understood as a progressive period that witnessed
the co-operation of various self-help movements--the Abbey Theatre,
the Gaelic League and the Irish Agricultural Organisation
Society--to encourage local modes of material and cultural
development. What bound these disparate groups together was their
readiness to use traditional cultural forms as the basis for an
alternative modernisation project. So successful were these
self-help initiatives that they very quickly opened up a rival
sphere of influence to parliamentary politics. Much of this
activity laid the groundwork for the emergence of Sinn Fein in
1905. With particular reference to important theatre productions of
the period, this study traces the connections and overlaps between
these radical movements, both at executive and grass roots level,
and argues that the self-help idea was crucial to the
decolonisation and modernisation of Irish society during the early
years of the twentieth century.
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