Handbook of the Irish Revival

"My hope is that in reading these pieces readers will be encouraged to go on to engage with the writers involved in more depth. What the editors have done is to have saved for us the evidence of some of the most sensitive, idealistic, often combative people of an extraordinary set of decades that ended a century of devastation and began a new century that presented both a promise and a set of conflicts whose consequences would endure into our own times." -- Michael D. Higgins, The President of Ireland "This book is indispensable for an understanding of the cultural revolution that preceded and in key ways helped shape the political revolution in twentieth-century Ireland. For anyone interested in Irish culture, history, literature, and art, I can think of no better place to start than here. Highly recommended." -- Christopher B. Fox, professor of English and director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame "For the generous range of material the Handbook gathers and for the fresh eye it brings to the period, Declan Kiberd and PJ Matthews are to be congratulated." -Dublin Review of Books -- <i>Dublin Review of Books</i> "It is a rare anthology that offers no surprising blooms in its gathering, and this commodious handbook to the Irish Revival by two distinguished scholars, with extracts from creative, critical and political writings, is no exception." -- <i>James Joyce Quarterly</i>

Declan Kiberd is the Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of English and Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books, including, among others, Inventing Ireland and Synge and the Irish Language. P. J. Mathews is lecturer in English, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Ireland. He is the editor of New Voices in Irish Criticism and director of the annual Parnell Summer School.