English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1540 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Irish Literary Revival
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The idea
The Irish Literary Revival, sometimes called the Celtic Twilight, was a late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century flowering of Irish writing, drawing on folklore and the Irish language, with Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory and Yeats. The Abbey Theatre, which opened in nineteen-oh-four, was its stage.
In practice
Folklore, language, a national theatre.
Where people slip
The Revival was cultural nationalism.
Your place on the trail
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