Reading and Writing Skills for
Students of Literature in English:
Modernism and Modernity
Enric Monforte
Jacqueline Hurtley
Bill Phillips
William Butler
Yeats 18651939
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John Butler Yeats
1839-1922
Jack Butler Yeats
1871-1957
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“On through the Silent Lands” by Jack Yeats
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“My beautiful, my beautiful” 1953
Yeats fell in love with Maud Gonne, a
supporter of violent revolution.
1897-8 he joined Irish Republican Brotherhood
to impress her.
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Maud Gonne
1866-1953
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Friendly with Lady Gregory. Mutual interest in
Irish folk-lore and came to believe in the virtues
of aristocracy and peasant life. set up Irish
theatre in Dublin together (Abbey theatre 1904).
Wrote plays for Maud Gonne to appear in.
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Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory
1852-1932
“Easter 1916"
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‘At the moment I feel that all the work of years has
been overturned, all the bringing together of classes,
all the freeing of Irish literature and criticism from
politics’
“That woman” Con Markiewicz (1868-1927).
Death sentence commuted.
“This man had kept a school”
Patrick Pearse (1879-1916)
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“This other” Thomas MacDonagh
1876-1916)
“This other” John MacBride 1865-1916
James Connolly 1870-1916
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1923 Nobel Prize for Literature
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Dies in 1939
Yeats is
buried in
Sligo
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Cathleen Ni Houlihan (1902)
1798 Rebellion of the Society of United Irishmen
Founded in Belfast in 1791 by
Theobald Wolfe Tone. The
ideals of the Society were based
on those of the French
Revolution
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The Society developed into Irish republicanism,
defending total separation from England. The
Society led a rebellion in 1798, supported by
the French. The rebellion failed. The rebels
who were captured were publicly hanged and
hundreds more left the country.
1801 Act of Union
The Act abolished the separate Irish
Parliament. Ireland was annexed to Great
Britain under the name of United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland. The Union
lasted from 1801 to 1921.
Anglo-Irish Protestant landowing ascendancy vs.
Irish Catholic peasant majority