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An age of innocence : Irish culture 1930-1960 / Brian Fallon.

By: Fallon, Brian.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 1998Description: 313 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0717129446 .Subject(s): Ireland -- Civilization -- 20th century | Ireland -- History -- 1922-DDC classification: 941.5082
Contents:
In Perspective -- Begging the Question -- A Disinherited Culture -- Yeats Centre Stage -- Joyce and the Exile Tradition -- Founding Fathers -- Second Generation -- The Poets after Yeats -- The French Connection -- The Theatre -- The Literary Pubs -- The Irish Language -- Gaels and Anglo-Irish -- The Church -- The Literary Censorship -- Neutrality and de Valera -- Press and Periodicals -- The Visual Arts -- Musical Life and Lives -- The Fifties.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 941.5082 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00070744
General Lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 941.5082 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00054836
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Irish life between 1930 and 1960 is often presented as a cultural wasteland. This text re-examines this period and argues that Ireland's cultural and artistic life was vigorous and continuous, despite the effects of literary censorship.

Bibliography: (pages 283-293) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284).

In Perspective -- Begging the Question -- A Disinherited Culture -- Yeats Centre Stage -- Joyce and the Exile Tradition -- Founding Fathers -- Second Generation -- The Poets after Yeats -- The French Connection -- The Theatre -- The Literary Pubs -- The Irish Language -- Gaels and Anglo-Irish -- The Church -- The Literary Censorship -- Neutrality and de Valera -- Press and Periodicals -- The Visual Arts -- Musical Life and Lives -- The Fifties.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • In Perspective
  • Begging the Question
  • A Disinherited Culture
  • Yeats
  • Joyce and the Exile Tradition
  • Founding Fathers
  • Second Generation
  • The Poets After Yeats
  • The French Connection
  • The Theatre
  • The Literary Pubs
  • The Irish Language
  • Gaels and Anglo-Irish
  • The Church
  • The Literary Censorship
  • Neutrality and de Valera
  • Press and Periodicals
  • The Visual Arts
  • Musical Life and Lives
  • The Fifties

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CHOICE Review

Fallon argues against interpretations of Irish society from 1930 to 1960 ("the Ireland of de Valera") that "demonize" the period as a cultural wasteland: insular, defensive, retrogressive, and acquiescent in the narrow-minded cultural values of a powerful and puritanical Catholic Church. Instead, he argues that the period enjoyed surprising cultural vitality highlighted by the success of the short story and verse plays. It also saw the birth of many cultural icons: literary magazines like The Bell, the Gate Theatre, the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Irish Folklore Commission. He presents his case in chapters on literature and poetry (emphasizing Yeats and Joyce), the theater, French cultural influence, the Irish language, censorship, the press and periodicals, the visual arts, and music. This is an interesting work by a long-time Irish journalist and art critic. But it leans too hard on the "Irish passion for self-criticism and even self-denigration," popularly referred to as "begrudgery," and its historical context is too shallow to make it entirely persuasive. General readers; undergraduates. H. T. Blethen; Western Carolina University

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