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Article: "Dead many times': Cathleen ni Houlihan, Yeats, two old women, and a vampire.(W.B. Yeats)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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The figure of Cathleen ni Houlihan as an Old Woman representing Ireland now seems familiar, virtually a national revolutionary icon, for better or for worse; (1) however, the figure was effectively invented in the play W. B. Yeats and Augusta Gregory wrote in 1901, Cathleen ni Houlihan. (2) Cathleen's portrayal there is a departure from earlier depictions and was to establish the 'definitive Cathleen'. It does this by joining together two discrete, well-established, and very different figures: beautiful young Cathleen ni Houlihan and the legendary aged Cailleach Bhearra. This linking would seem to have been accomplished not by Yeats but by Lady Augusta Gregory (with Yeats's ...
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... ... What most divided Gonne and Yeats was their personal philosophies ... fanaticism and hate enslave it," Yeats lamented in a late poem. Yet ... Deirdre of the Sorrows, Cathleen Ni Houlihan. One of his last ... publication of The Gonne-Yeats Letters: 1893-1938, edited ...
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