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1 CONTENTS 14 Chronology 18 Acknowledgements 20 Permissions 22 Publisher s Introduction 24 Introduction 30 SECTION ONE: A COUNTRY IN PARALYSIS? 33 J.M. Synge, A Landlord s Garden in County Wicklow 37 Emily Lawless from: Famine Roads and Famine Memories 40 Peig Sayers, A Battle That Never Happened 42 Douglas Hyde from: The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland 47 D.P. Moran from: The Future of the Irish Nation 49 James Joyce from: Ivy Day in the Committee Room 51 Augusta Gregory from: Ireland Real, and Ideal 53 Michael Davitt from: The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland 56 SECTION TWO: A THOUGHT REVIVAL 59 Standish O Grady from: A Wet Day 63 Standish O Grady from: The Great Enchantment 65 W.B. Yeats, O Grady as Elegist for Anglo-Ireland 66 Alice Milligan, When I Was a Little Girl 68 J.M. Synge, The Irish Intellectual Movement 73 John Eglinton from: A Thought Revival 74 George Russell (AE) from: Village Libraries 76 Constance Markiewicz from: Women, Ideals and the Nation 79 Mary Colum from: Life and the Dream handbook of the irish revival

2 81 SECTION THREE: MOVEMENTS AND MANIFESTOS 85 Michael Cusack, A Word about Irish Athletics 87 Objects of the Irish National Literary Society 88 from: The Gaelic League Annual Report 90 Horace Plunkett, The Aims of the Co-operative Movement 91 Opening Statement of the Irish Literary Theatre 92 Objects of Inghinidhe na héireann (Daughters of Ireland) 94 from: Manifesto of the Ulster Literary Theatre 96 from: Report on the Inaugural Feis na ngleann 97 Sinn Féin Resolutions 98 from: Pearse s letter to Eoin MacNeill on the founding of St. Enda s School 99 Ellice Pilkington from: The United Irishwomen: Their Work 100 Ulster s Solemn League and Covenant 101 The Constitution of the Irish Citizen Army 102 Constitution of The Irish Volunteers 103 Cumann na mban (Irish Women s Council) 104 Poblacht Na héireann (Proclamation of the Irish Republic) 106 The Democratic Programme of the First Dáil Éireann 108 from: The Anglo-Irish Treaty 109 SECTION FOUR: LANGUAGE REVIVAL 112 Eugene O Growney from: Preface to Simple Lessons in Irish 114 Louis Paul-Dubois from: Contemporary Ireland 115 Robert Atkinson from: The Irish Language and Irish Intermediate Education 116 W.B. Yeats from: The Academic Class and the Agrarian Revolution 118 George Moore from: Literature and the Irish Language 119 An tathair Peadar Ó Laoghaire from: My Own Story 121 Frederick Ryan from: Is the Gaelic League a Progressive Force? 125 Stephen Gwynn from: In Praise of the Gaelic League 127 J.M. Synge, Can We Go Back Into Our Mother s Womb? 129 Patrick Pearse, A Gaelic Modernism? contents

3 131 SECTION FIVE: AN IRISH LITERATURE IN ENGLISH? 135 Stopford A. Brooke from: The Need and Use of Getting Irish Literature into the English Tongue 137 Douglas Hyde from: The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland 138 Douglas Hyde from: A Óganaigh an Chúil Cheangailte\ Ringleted Youth of My Love 142 Mary Colum from: Life and the Dream 144 Patrick Pearse, Letter to the Editor, An Claidheamh Soluis 146 D.P. Moran from: The Battle of Two Civilisations 148 W.B. Yeats from: The Literary Movement in Ireland 149 W.B. Yeats, Hiberno-English 151 William Rooney, Is there an Anglo-Irish Literature? 152 Ethna Carbery, Mo Bhuachaill Cael-Dubh\My Black Slender Boy 153 Thomas MacDonagh from: Literature in Ireland The Irish Note 154 SECTION SIX: THEATRE MATTERS 158 Augusta Gregory from: Our Irish Theatre 159 Harry Phibbs, Irish National Clubs Alice Milligan from: Staging and Costume in Irish Drama 162 John Eglinton, What Should be the Subjects of a National Drama? 164 James Joyce from: The Day of the Rabblement 166 Frank J. Fay from: The Irish Literary Theatre 167 Augusta Gregory and W.B. Yeats from: Cathleen Ní Houlihan 169 Thomas Keohler from: The Irish National Theatre 170 W.B. Yeats from: Opening Speech at the Abbey Theatre Playboy Debate 171 Eugene O Neill interview: On the Irish Players 173 Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh from: The Splendid Years 174 W.B. Yeats from: The Irish Dramatic Movement 176 W.B. Yeats interview: State Endowment for the Abbey Theatre 178 Sean O Casey from: The Plough and the Stars handbook of the irish revival

4 180 SECTION SEVEN: THE NATURAL WORLD 184 W.B. Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree 185 J.M. Synge from: Autobiography 187 Emily Lawless from: North Clare: Leaves from a Diary 188 William Rooney from: Irish Topography 190 Agnes O Farrelly (Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh) from: Smaointe ar Árainn 192 Eva Gore-Booth, Women s Rights 193 William Bulfin from: Rambles in Éirinn 195 George Bernard Shaw from: A Visit to Skellig Michael 196 George Moore from: Salve 198 Robert Lloyd Praeger from: The Fauna and Flora of Ireland 200 SECTION EIGHT: MIND, EMOTION AND SPIRIT 203 W.B. Yeats, Irish Fairies 205 George Sigerson from: Fand and Cuchulain 206 Mary Battle, Prophecies 207 W.B. Yeats, The Valley of the Black Pig 208 Eoin MacNeill from: Phases of Irish History 210 Kuno Meyer from: Ancient Irish Poetry 211 J.M. Synge, The Oppression of the Hills 215 SECTION NINE: RELIGION 218 W.B. Yeats, The Secret Rose 220 Joseph Mary Plunkett, The Little Black Rose Shall Be Red at Last 221 James and Margaret Cousins, Worlds Within Worlds 224 Patrick Pearse, Fornocht Do Chonac Thú\Naked I Saw Thee 226 Frederick Ryan from: Church Disestablishment in France and Ireland 228 Father Michael O Riordan from: Catholicity and Progress in Ireland 232 Elizabeth Burke-Plunkett from: Seventy Years Young: Memories of Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall 234 John Eglinton from: The Weak Point of the Celtic Movement contents

5 237 SECTION TEN: THE WIDER WORLD 241 Maud Gonne and the Boer War 246 W.B. Yeats in America interview: We Are Unlike the English in All Except Language 248 John Eglinton, Letter to Sir Horace Plunkett 253 Sir Horace Plunkett, Letter to John Eglinton 256 Arthur Griffith from: The Resurrection of Hungary 258 Patrick Pearse from: Belgium and its Schools 263 Rabindranath Tagore from: The Post Office 265 Roger Casement, Human Rights 267 Eoin MacNeill, Imperialism 270 SECTION ELEVEN: EDUCATION, AND POPULAR CULTURE 275 Mary E.L. Butler from: Irish Women s Education 277 Maud Gonne, Children s Treats 279 Percy French, The Queen s After-Dinner Speech 282 Augusta Gregory, The Boy-Deeds of Cuchulain 285 Patrick Pearse from: The Murder Machine 289 John E. Kennedy, The Debate on National Dress 291 Douglas Hyde, Irish Clothing 292 J.M. Synge from: The Aran Islands 293 from: The Dun Emer Industries Prospectus 295 An Feis Ceoil/An toireachtas 296 Patrick Pearse, Óro Sé Do Bheatha Abhaile 298 Jack Judge, It s A Long Way to Tipperary 300 Percy French, The Mountains of Mourne 302 J. M. Synge, The Grief of the Keen 303 Dermot O Byrne/Arnold Bax, Music in Ireland 305 W.B. Yeats, An Abbey School of Ballet handbook of the irish revival

6 307 SECTION TWELVE: SOCIAL CONDITIONS 312 Maud Gonne from: The Distress in the West 314 J.M. Synge from: The Inner Lands of Mayo 316 Irish Homestead Competition 317 James Connolly from: The Language Movement 319 Sean O Casey from: Drums Under the Windows 322 from: The Great Revival: A Wave of Temperance 325 Susanne R. Day from: The Workhouse Child 327 James Larkin from: Larkin s Scathing Indictment of Dublin Sweaters 329 James Joyce from: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 331 Padraic Colum from: The Road Round Ireland 335 SECTION THIRTEEN: WOMEN AND CITIZENSHIP 340 Anna Parnell, The Journey 342 Mary Hayden from: Women Citizens Their Duties and Their Training 346 James Connolly from: The Reconquest of Ireland 349 Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: Sinn Féin and Irishwomen 352 Mary McSwiney from: Suffragists and Home Rule: A Plea for Common Sense 355 Constance Markiewicz, Experiences of a Woman Patrol 357 Constance Markiewicz from: The Woman With a Garden 358 SECTION FOURTEEN: A SOVEREIGN PEOPLE 362 William Rooney from: The Development of the National Ideal 364 Maud Gonne, The Famine Queen 368 W.B. Yeats from: Noble and Ignoble Loyalties 370 J.M. Synge from: Possible Remedies 372 James Joyce from: Home Rule Comes of Age 373 John Redmond from: Speech at Woodenbridge 375 Patrick Pearse from: The Separatist Idea 377 James Connolly, The Irish Flag 380 Sean O Casey from: The Story of Thomas Ashe contents

7 381 SECTION FIFTEEN: MILITARISM/MODERNISM 388 James Connolly from: Erin s Hope 392 Helena Molony from: National Activities 396 Peadar Kearney from: The Soldiers Song / Amhrán na bhfiann 397 George Russell from: Physical Force in Literature 399 John Frederick MacNeice, On Refusing to Sign the Ulster Covenant 401 Eoin MacNeill from: The North Began 404 Francis Sheehy Skeffington, The Writing on the Wall 407 Diarmuid Coffey, The Ousting of Douglas Hyde from the Presidency of the Gaelic League, Dundalk 409 Patrick Pearse, Speech at the Grave of O Donovan Rossa 412 Francis Sheehy Skeffington from: Ireland and the War 416 Augustine Birrell from: Things Past Redress 418 Sean (Joe) Keegan, The Countermanding Order 423 James Stephens from: The Insurrection in Dublin 427 Louise Gavan Duffy, Kitchen Duty in the Post Office, Easter Week Father Aloysius Travers from: Diary of Easter Week Monk Gibbon from: Inglorious Soldier 444 W.B. Yeats: Easter Maud Gonne, Letter to W.B. Yeats, November Francis Ledwidge, Lament for Thomas MacDonagh 450 V.I. Lenin, Lessons from the Irish Rebellion 451 Joseph Mary Plunkett, I See His Blood Upon the Rose 452 Roger Casement from: Speech from the Dock 454 C.S. Lewis, Trench War 455 George Russell, To The Memory of Some I Knew Who Are Dead and Who Loved Ireland 457 Canon Charles O Neill, The Foggy Dew 459 George Russell, Two Comments handbook of the irish revival

8 460 SECTION SIXTEEN: AFTER THE REVOLUTION 466 Colm Ó Gaora from: Mise 467 Cumann na mban Petition to President Wilson 469 Ernie O Malley from: On Another Man s Wound 472 from: The Strike at Limerick 474 Henry Nevinson from: Ireland: The One Solution 477 Edward Carson, Sinn Féin Has Beaten You 481 Elizabeth Burke-Plunkett, Into the Free State 483 Piaras Beaslaí, The Shooting of Michael Collins 484 Thomas Bodkin, Modern Irish Art 486 George Russell, Reaction in Literature 488 Elizabeth Burke-Plunkett, The Burning Party 491 Éamon de Valera, Legion of the Rearguard 493 George Bernard Shaw, Safe Holidays in Ireland 495 The Civic Guard and the Pioneer Movement 496 George Bernard Shaw from: The Irish Statesman 498 Afterword by President Michael D. Higgins 503 Select Bibliography contents

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