Exploring Ireland Theme E

INNTI

A literary poetic movement started by students at UCC in Cork, influenced by the Civil Rights movement

Poetry Movement 1970s

Public readings, storytelling traditions, recitations on stage, influence of other languages

Poetry Themes

Personal torment, feminism, Northern Ireland, violence, Pollution, drugs and alcohol, other social and personal issues

Gabriel Rosenstock

UCC student, collection was banned for being satanic

Ravi Shankar

Musician that used imagery of nature, criticized for influence of drugs

Billy Holiday

Jazz musician that sang about her personal struggles of race and womanhood, religious imagery, social issues, and tensions between cultures

Bhobby Sands

Died of two month hunger strike

Poker

Poem that’s a metaphor for the risk found in relationships, neither language is mastered in the bilingual poem

Anglo-Irish

Irish literature written in the English language

Henry VIII"‘s Plantation

English colonisation of Ireland during the 16th century, Irish land confiscated and Englishd settlers took over, led to a “landed class” of protestants,

Oscar Wilde

Outsider for his Anglo-Irish and gay identity

Irish Revival

Decline of Irish language as English took over, people attempted to preserve Irish literature, culture, and language

James Joyce

Catholic middle class, associated with Modernism, opposed the revival, Ulysses was banned for obscenity, concerned with Catholisicim

Elizabeth Bowen

Female writers were overlooked historically, deals with gothicism and decay

Gothicism and Decay

Anglo-Irish in trouble at the turn of the century

WB Yeats

Anglo-Irish Protestant identity politics

Lady Augusta Gregory

Irish mythology and folklore, assisted Yeats with early plays

John Millington Synge

Anglo-Irish Protestant

Samuel Beckett

Absurdity, existentialism, philosophy, nature of langue, futility of human action

Edna O Brien

Banned books, went into exile, discussed sexuality and silence

Eavan Boland

Irish feminist poet