Irish Books and Irish People
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Literature, language and national identity meet in Stephen Lucius Gwynn's essays on Irish life. His introduction weighs the Gaelic revival against the work of writers such as Yeats and Synge, arguing that Irish thought can find a distinct voice in English. The collection also takes up nineteenth-century novels, humour, education and the gentry, connecting books with the society that produces and judges them.
Oral tradition gives these discussions a more personal scale. In an account of an old man's recitation, Gwynn follows a Gaelic ballad about Cuchulain and his son, attending to its dramatic force, sound and survival in memory. Readers interested in Irish literary history will find criticism alongside observations of everyday culture, with language treated as both an artistic resource and a contested part of national belonging.
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