Political visions : George Russell, 1913-1930
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Nicholas George Allen, 'Political visions : George Russell, 1913-1930', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000, pp 316Download Item:
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Abstract:
George Russell, poet and author, was a contemporary of W. B. Yeats and a figure
central to the Irish Literary Revival. My thesis concentrates on his editorship of two
journals, the Irish Homestead and the Irish Statesman, in the turbulent period between
1913 and 1930. I argue that Russell’s journalism enjoyed a cultural agency previously
under-acknowledged by critics. Russell is now perceived to have been an eccentric, with
mystical interests subsidiary to the main course of Irish nationalism. I contend rather that Russell was the central theorist of an Irish cultural doctrine subsequently obscured by post-Civil War political change. Russell's periodical contributions were expressions of his commitment to an esoteric principle of Irish statehood, anathema to an increasingly orthodox Free State.
Author: Allen, Nicholas George
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Brown, TerenceQualification name:
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