Risings: The Irish Literary Revival and the Making of a Nation
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Risings: The Irish Literary Revival and the Making of a Nation
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The Irish Crisis: The Great Irish Famine of 1846-7
In charge of British relief efforts during Ireland’s Great Famine, Sir Charles Trevelyn not only blamed Irish landlords and tenant farmers for the failure of the potato crop but also wrote that the famine was “a direct stroke of an all-wise and…
History of Ireland
Standish O’Grady’s early, two-volume retelling of heroic Irish mythology was hugely influential to the writers of the Celtic Revival. W.B. Yeats said of O’Grady, “He started us all.”
Mosada
W. B. Yeats published his first stand-alone work at age 21. A play about a Moorish girl who kills herself, Mosada is most noteworthy for its place in Yeats’s bibliography. The frontispiece is a portrait of Yeats by his artist father, J. B. Yeats. A…
Mosada
W. B. Yeats published his first stand-alone work at age 21. A play about a Moorish girl who kills herself, Mosada is most noteworthy for its place in Yeats’s bibliography. The frontispiece is a portrait of Yeats by his artist father, J. B. Yeats. A…
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
Yeats's first true book was published when he was 23 years old. In this compilation of tales gathered from various secondary sources as well as his own imagination, Yeats created a fairy world of which he was the master, establishing him as one of…
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
Yeats's first true book was published when he was 23 years old. In this compilation of tales gathered from various secondary sources as well as his own imagination, Yeats created a fairy world of which he was the master, establishing him as one of…
The Wanderings of Oisin
The first commercial publication in book form by Yeats of his poems, put out only four months after the publication of Fairy and Folktales of the Irish Peasantry, Wanderings of Oisin contains some of his earliest verses on themes borrowed from…
The Wanderings of Oisin
The first commercial publication in book form by Yeats of his poems, put out only four months after the publication of Fairy and Folktales of the Irish Peasantry, Wanderings of Oisin contains some of his earliest verses on themes borrowed from…
The Wanderings of Oisin
The first commercial publication in book form by Yeats of his poems, put out only four months after the publication of Fairy and Folktales of the Irish Peasantry, Wanderings of Oisin contains some of his earliest verses on themes borrowed from…
The Wanderings of Oisin
The first commercial publication in book form by Yeats of his poems, put out only four months after the publication of Fairy and Folktales of the Irish Peasantry, Wanderings of Oisin contains some of his earliest verses on themes borrowed from…
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