Irish Revival Reappraised (Nineteenth-Century Ireland)

by E.A. Taylor FitzSimon (Editor), James H. Murphy (Editor)

Overview

Selina Guinness (Dun Laoghaire) Ireland through the stereoscope: reading the cultural politics of theosophy in the Irish Literary Revival Leeann Lane DCU) 'There are compensations in the congested districts for their poverty': � and the idealized peasant of the agricultural co-operative movement Liam MacMathúna (DCU) From manuscripts to street signs via Séadna: the Gaelic League and the changing role of literacy in Irish, 1875-1915 "na Ní Bhroiméil (Mary Immac.) American influence on the Gaelic League: inspiration or control? Mary Stakelum (UL) A song to sweeten Ireland's wrong: music education and the Celtic Revival Elizabeth Crooke (UU) Revivalist archaeology and museum politics during the Irish Revival Janice Helland (Queen's, King.) Embroidered spectacle: Celtic Revival as aristocratic display Elaine Cheasley Paterson (QUB) Crafting a national identity: the Dun Emer Guild, 1902-8 Marnie Hay (UCD) Explaining Uladh: cultural nationalism in Ulster Lucy McDiarmid (Villanova U) Revivalist belligerence: three controversies Alex Davis (UCC) Whoops from the peat-bog?: Joseph Campbell and the London avant-garde Maria O'Brien (UU) Thomas William Rolleston: the forgotten man G.K. Peatling (Guelph U) Robert Lynd, paradox and the Irish revival: 'Acting-out' or 'Working-through'? Brian Griffin (Bath Spa) The Revival at local level: Katherine Frances Purdon's portrayal of rural Ireland Michael McAteer A currency crisis: modernist dialectics in The Countess Cathleen Mary Burke (QUB) Eighteenth-century European scholarship and nineteenth-century Irish literature: Synge's Tinker's Wedding and the orientalizing of 'Irish Gypsies' Patrick Lonergan (NUIG) 'The sneering, lofty conception of what they call culture': O'Casey, popular culture and the Literary Revival

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781851827572
Publisher:	Four Courts Press
Publication date:	02/26/2004
Series:	Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Notes on contributors	9
	Introduction	13
I	Idealism and Activism
	Ireland through the stereoscope: reading the cultural politics of theosophy in the Irish Literary Revival	19
	'There are compensations in the congested districts for their poverty': AE and the idealized peasant of the agricultural co-operative movement	33
	From manuscripts to street signs via Seadna: the Gaelic League and the changing role of literacy in Irish, 1875-1915	49
	American influence on the Gaelic League: inspiration or control?	63
	A song to sweeten Ireland's wrong: music education and the Celtic Revival	71
II	Material Culture
	Revivalist archaeology and museum politics during the Irish Revival	83
	Embroidered spectacle: Celtic Revival as aristocratic display	94
	Crafting a national identity: the Dun Emer Guild, 1902-8	106
III	In the Context of the City
	Explaining Uladh: cultural nationalism in Ulster	119
	Revivalist belligerence: three controversies	132
	Whoops from the peat-bog?: Joseph Campbell and the London avant-garde	145
IV	Other Paths
	Thomas William Rolleston: the forgotten man	154
	Robert Lynd, paradox and the Irish revival: 'acting-out' or 'working-through'?	167
	The Revival at local level: Katherine Frances Purdon's portrayal of rural Ireland	175
V	History and the Text
	A currency crisis: modernist dialectics in The Countess Cathleen	187
	Eighteenth-century European scholarship and nineteenth-century Irish literature: Synge's Tinker's Wedding and the orientalizing of 'Irish Gypsies'	205
	'The sneering, lofty conception of what they call culture': O'Casey, popular culture and the Literary Revival	217
	Index	229