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Seeks to clarify the foundational ideals of the Irish Revival and to challenge misunderstandings about its aims and accomplishments by examining literary and cultural texts and analyzing the social and political impact of revivalism up to the present day.
List of contents
List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Revivalism and the Call for Renewal: 1. The Irish revival: a great awakening or a recurrent radical reinvention? Brian Ó Conchubhair; 2. Revival cheerlessness: the cultural nationalism of Douglas Hyde and D. P. Moran Helen O'Connell; 3. Counter-revivalism: reimagining the literature of renewal Andrew Kalaidjian; 4. From deanglicization to riverdance: revivals in music and dance Sean Williams; Part II. The Politics of the Irish Revival: 5. Erin fettered; Erin free? Revival feminism Catherine Morris; 6. Politics of the land: Ireland's natures and the critique of revival Maureen O'Connor; 7. 'The Great Scar': reflexive realism in Irish civil war fiction, film and drama Luke Gibbons; 8. The healer and the witch: performative transitions in the theatre of Friel and Carr Ben Levitas; 9. 'A living testament to the struggle for a better future': commemoration as revivalist practice Heather Laird; Part III. Mythologies of the Literary Revival: 10. Revival in the West: Emily Lawless's and J. M. Synge's Islands of authenticity Giulia Bruna; 11. Synge, modernity and the myth of revival Christopher Morash; 12. 'In search of a nation and a language': revivalist inclinations in the poetry of Eavan Boland Pilar Villar-Argáiz; 13. Big house revivals Heather Ingman; Part IV. Revivalist Futures: 14. W. B. Yeats, Alice Milligan and revivalist heroism Gregory Castle; 15. 'He who tramples on the past does not create for the future': antiquarianism, revivalism, and the idea of Museums Elizabeth Crooke; 16. Encountering the post-revival poet: Eavan Boland, Padraic Fallon, and Sheila Wingfield Rosie Lavan; 17. The uncertainty of coming times in contemporary Irish fiction Eoin Flannery.
About the author
Gregory Castle's publications include Modernism and the Celtic Revival (2001), Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman (2006), Yeats, Revival and the Temporalities of Irish Modernism (2024); as editor, A History of the Modernist Novel (2015), (with Patrick Bixby) A History of Irish Modernism (2019); articles on Joyce, Yeats, Synge, and others.
