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Article: Joyce and the institutions of revivalism.(James Joyce)
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- Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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Introduction
When did the Irish cultural revival begin? Did it precede or follow the death of Pamell in October 1891, and that moment in which W.B. Yeats prophesied that Ireland 'was to be like soft wax for years to come'? (1) Or did it begin several years earlier, as a function of constitutional nationalism's success, rather than its failure? (2) How should the movement be described? Should critics refer to the 'Irish Literary Revival', 'Ireland's Literary Renaissance', the 'Gaelic Revival' or the 'Modernism' of the 'Celtic Revival'? (3) For whom did the Irish cultural revival matter? Was it, as some critics have argued, merely a means by which a group of ...