The Irish Revival Reappraised

by Betsey Taylor FitzSimon (Editor)

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 MacMath na (DCU) From manuscripts to street signs via S adna: the Gaelic League and the changing role of literacy in Irish, 1875-1915 "na N Bhroim il (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

236 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2004

Reviews

[Colin Cloutus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Numbering 17 essays total, this collection casts a wide net over the various aspects of the Celtic/Irish Revival umbrella. It covers topics as diverse as the theosophy movement, musical education, women's fashion, museum studies, and the arts and crafts movement; along with case studies on particular groups, individuals, and publications like the Uladh magazine; as well as mostly-forgotten authors like Robert Wilson Lynd, and Katherine Frances Purdon, who both seem brilliant from the analyses of their work given.

Not necessarily an entry-level text, so some background reading on the Gaelic League and Irish nationalism more generally would help.