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Article: Becoming Irish? Alice Milligan and the Revival.(Critical Essay)
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- Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
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- March 22, 2003
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If the political history of the past twenty-five years in Ireland ever comes to be written by someone who studies other authorities than the newspapers, someone who has really an intimate knowledge of the personalities who were at the root of the biggest Irish political movement of today, they would discover, we believe, that the infant nurse who looked after it while it was yet inarticulate and who expressed its wants was Alice Milligan.
Susan Mitchell, Irish Homestead, 28 February 1920.
The Irish Revival has long been justifiably celebrated as a cultural and aesthetic watershed in Irish history. Traditional accounts praise the Revival period for its ...