Alice Milligan and the Irish cultural revival
By: Catherine Morris
Publisher: Four Courts Press Ltd; Four Courts Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781846823138
Subjects: Politics and culture; Irish National characteristics; Irish Women authors; Nationalism; Biography; History
Description: "This book is the first study to explore the life and work of Alice Milligan (1866-1953). A prolific writer for over six decades, she published her work in a range of genres (including poetry, short stories, novels, travelogues, biography, plays, journalism, letters, and memoirs). From 1891 to the 1940s, she founded a series of cultural, feminist, commemorative and political organizations that put the north on the map of the Irish Cultural Revival and provided a new resonance to Irish visual culture. This book not only reclaims an unjustly forgotten Irish cultural and political activist during this foundational era in modern Ireland, but also provides new ways of interpreting the Irish Cultural Revival itself."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: Alice Milligan: a life; title: Revival; title: Identity; title: Memory and commemoration: 1798 in 1898; title: Drama; title: Republican tableaux and the Revival; title: Conclusion : 'the scattering of the company'.