Organised spaces: revival activism and print culture

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Acknowledgements

The editors would like to thank UCD Graduate School of Arts and Celtic Studies and its former Director Dr Marc Caball for awarding us funding to organise the conference where exciting discussions about the Revival commenced and where some of these articles were first rehearsed. Our work for this issue has been enormously facilitated through the logistic support of the UCD Humanities Institute, our academic home for this project. Our warmest thanks to Professor Gerardine Meaney for her generous support. Dr P.J. Mathews in the UCD School of English, Drama & Film has been an enthusiastic supporter of this project and has encouraged our work from day one. His expertise and advice have been invaluable to us. We are also thankful to Dr John Brannigan in the UCD School of English, Drama & Film for his advice and suggestions on the project. We are deeply indebted to all the scholars and experts who have generously given their time, their expertise and their critical insight to review the articles. We are grateful to the ISR General Editors and Editorial Board who have offered precious feedback on the proposal and who have assisted us throughout. Most of all, we owe a debt of gratitude to our contributors for their dedication to the project, for their precision and punctuality in attending to all necessary revisions and finally, for their genuine commitment to their research.

Notes

^1.Gregory, “Ireland, Real and Ideal,” 770.

^2. Ibid., 771.

^3. Ibid., 775.

^4. See Graham, “Literary Historiography, 1890–2000,” 567–8; Steele, Women, Press and Politics during the Irish Revival, 13–14.

^5.Synge, “Le Mouvement intellectuel irlandais,” 378 (authors' translation).

^6.Mathews'sRevival has pointed to the “commonality of purpose” and the “co-operation among self-help revivalists” (2) by examining initiatives such as the early Irish theatre in conversation with the work of the Gaelic League, the IAOS and Sinn Féin; Kelleher's “New Perspective on the Irish Literary Revival” rewrites the history of the Literary Revival towards “the development of new models of intertextuality and influence” (Introduction, xi); Ó Conchubhair'sFin de Siècle na Gaeilge considers the Gaelic Revival within the context of European debates about science, race and language; see also Taylor Fitzsimon and Murphy'sThe Irish Revival Reappraised for an interdisciplinary study of the period.

^7.Levitas, “Performance, Performativity and Popular Will in Revival Ireland.”

^8.Hutton, “Publishing the Irish Cultural Revival, 1891–1922,” 21.

^9. Ibid.

^10.Kiberd, Inventing Ireland, 137.

^11.Allen, George Russell, 26.

^12.Morash, A History of the Media in Ireland, 115.

^13.Foley, “How Journalism became a Profession,” 23.

^14. Steele, Women, Press and Politics during the Irish Revival, 19.

^15. Ibid.

^16.Levitas, “Reading and the Irish Revival, 1891–1922,” 63–4.

^17.Nash and Reid, “Border Crossings,” 267.

^18. As Declan Kiberd notes:

[t]he idea that Dublin was a major literary capital in the years of the Revival is just one of the many myths which have come to dominate our thinking about the period […] But the facts show that most of them didn't reside in Dublin for any great length of time. (Kiberd, “The Perils of Nostalgia,” 1)

^19. See Morris, Alice Milligan, and McNulty, The Ulster Literary Theatre. For recent scholarship in the field of history see, for instance, Hay, Bulmer Hobson.

^20.Kiberd, “Literature and Politics,” 24.