Celtic Dawn

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'Thoughtful and very entertaining delightful above all the book is a warm and engaging celebration of temperament'
BOOKS AND BOOKMEN
Dublin is the only city in the world to produce three Nobel Prize winners for literature. An indication that something remarkable was taking place, not only in the capital, but in the whole country, came with the extraordinary confluence of talent which appeared at the end of the
nineteenth century.
' It was not only a literary renaissance, but the cultural rebirth of a nation, founded on a growing spirit of national revival. It was a revival whose first murmurings were heard in the voices of Charles Stewart Pamell, Maud Gonne, Douglas Hyde, the great Fenian revolutionary John O'Leary and others. The sweep of nationalism caught the imaginations of those who were to emerge as the great literary figures of the time; W B. ^ats, George Moore, George Russell (AE), James Joyce, John Synge. And at the centre of it all was the Irish Literary Theatre,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'Thoughtful and very entertaining delightful above all the book is a warm and engaging celebration of temperament'
BOOKS AND BOOKMEN
Dublin is the only city in the world to produce three Nobel Prize winners for literature. An indication that something remarkable was taking place, not only in the capital, but in the whole country, came with the extraordinary confluence of talent which appeared at the end of the
nineteenth century.
' It was not only a literary renaissance, but the cultural rebirth of a nation, founded on a growing spirit of national revival. It was a revival whose first murmurings were heard in the voices of Charles Stewart Pamell, Maud Gonne, Douglas Hyde, the great Fenian revolutionary John O'Leary and others. The sweep of nationalism caught the imaginations of those who were to emerge as the great literary figures of the time; W B. ^ats, George Moore, George Russell (AE), James Joyce, John Synge. And at the centre of it all was the Irish Literary Theatre, founded by ^ats, Moore and Lady Gregory, whose spirit is still alive in the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin today.
In a book fiill of warm-hearted anecdote and masterfiil characterisation, Ulick O'Connor brings to life those characters dominating the Irish Literary Renaissance. CELTIC DAWN is acute, passionate, sometimes partisan, a pioneer work of biography, and compulsive reading even for those not closely acquainted with the characters who fill its pages.
'A stylish account of a bygone era a calm and comprehensive assessment of what we once were and might still become'
SUNDAY TRIBUNE Cover illuslmlion by Adrian Georse Vissza