Revival ? The Abbey Theatre, Sinn Féin, The Gaelic League and the Co?operative Movement
The Abbey Theatre, Sinn Féin, The Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement
Publisher: MR ? University of Notre Dame Press
Date of Publication: 12 September 2023
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ISBN13: | 9780268034764 |
ISBN10: | 0268034761 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 280 pages |
Size: | 250x150x15 mm |
Weight: | 666 g |
Language: | English |
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P. J. Mathews argues against the received opinion that the Irish Revival was a purely mystical affair of high culture characterized by a preoccupation with a backward-looking Celtic spirituality, nostalgia for Gaelic Ireland, and anti-modern traditionalism. Instead, he claims, the time of the Irish Revival was a progressive period that witnessed the cooperation of various self-help movements?the Abbey Theatre, the Gaelic League, and the Irish Agricultural Organization Society?which encouraged local modes of material and cultural development.These different groups were bound together by their willingness to use traditional cultural forms as the basis for an alternative modernization project. Mathews points out that these self-help initiatives were so successful that they very quickly opened up a sphere of influence rivaling that of parliamentary politics. Much of this activity laid the groundwork for the emergence of the Sinn Fein in 1905. Making use of important theater productions of the period, Mathews skillfully traces the connections and overlaps among these radical movements and demonstrates that the self-help idea was crucial to the decolonization and modernization of Irish society during the early years of the twentieth century.
?Revival represents an important contribution. . . . "
?Revival represents an important contribution. . . . "