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<p>We know from literary histories that there was a movement called the Irish Literary Renaissance, and from political histories that there was a nationalist movement that, militarily, began in Dublin with the Insurrection of Easter Week, 1916. What these two movements have to do with each other is the subject of this book.</p> <p>In search of the role of imagination in this history, <b>William Irwin Thompson</b> defines three narrative strands. “The Movement Toward the Event” describes the seemingly unpolitical efforts of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish archaeologists and historians to recapture the Gaelic past that had been eradicated by the catastrophes of war in seventeenth-century Ireland. In recovering this past, historians ignited the imaginations of twentieth-century Irish writers and revolutionaries alike. “The Poets in the Event” concentrates on the imaginative worlds of the three executed poet revolutionaries of 1916—Padraic Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, and Joseph Plunkett—attempting to show how they lived their lives as if in a work of art, and how, from the romantic gesture of their deaths, they were able to force history momentarily into the shape of art. “Three

Author

Thompson, William Irwin.

Publisher

Barnes & Noble Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781435106482

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Humanities