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Article: Through Irish eyes. (Stephen Rea)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 3, 1988
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IN THE nineteenth century an Irish wit put the rhetorical question: "Was there ever an Irish genius who did not get himself turned into an Englishman as fast as he could?" Literature written in English over the past 100 years would present a lean aspect without the likes of Yeats, joyce, Shaw and Wilde, all of whom made English reputations. These writers did not quite turn themselves into Englishmen. Each remained, in his own way, distinctly Irish, whether it was Yeats with his invocation of Celtic myth, Wilde with his epigrams or joyce with his verbal experiments. Yet even this exotic Irishness became, in the end, a quality designed for export, custom-made for the London ...
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