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Article: Introduction.(the Irish Literary Revival)
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- Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
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- March 22, 2003
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In his collection of essays, The Irish Story, Roy Foster observes: 'If the Irish are to remember or commemorate anything, it is worth recalling the great upward curve of Irish cultural achievement from about 1890 to 1914, and the fact that this went with an opening out of attitudes, a modernization of nationalism, an exploration of cultural diversity, a questioning of too-readily-received forms of authority in public and indeed private life. That was the period when, in a sense, modem Irish history was "made"'. (1) Literature of the Revival period may not appear, on first sight, to be in much need of 'recalling', with courses on the Irish Literary Revival or Irish ...