Joyce and the Two Irelands

by Willard Potts

Book Overview

Uniting Catholic Ireland and Protestant Ireland was a central idea of the "Irish Revival," a literary and cultural manifestation of Irish nationalism that began in the 1890s and continued into the early twentieth century. Yet many of the Revival's Protestant leaders, including W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and John Synge, failed to address the profound cultural differences that made uniting the two Irelands so problematic, while Catholic leaders...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292718853
• ISBN13: 9780292718852
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"