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    The Hidden Ireland – A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century

    By Daniel Corkery

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    Daniel Corkery’s classic book The Hidden Ireland is a study of Irish language poetry and culture in eighteenth-century Munster. The ‘Hidden Ireland’ of the title is literary Ireland: Corkery’s famous book is an attempt to reclaim Munster’s Irish language poets from the hands of grammarians who read them only for their preposition and participle use and to restore them to their rightful place as vibrant and vital lyricists and visionaries.

    The Hidden Ireland, an instant classic when first published in 1924, was listed as one of the top 50 most influential Irish books in The Books That Define Ireland by Tom Garvin and Bryan Fanning. The Hidden Ireland was revolutionary in its recognition of the contribution of Irish language poets to Irish culture, a contribution that had previously been minimised or even erased in the Anglo-Irish versions of history that preceded it.

    Corkery’s groundbreaking study of Irish poetry and culture in eighteenth century Munster is widely acknowledged as having had a profound influence on the shaping of modern Anglo-Irish literature in its foregrounding of the role of the Irish language in literature as a repository of Irishness and a specifically Irish worldview .

    Daniel Corkery’s The Hidden Ireland (1924), arguing for an Irish cultural revival based on the Gaelic tradition of Munster in the eighteenth century, became almost official dogma after 1924, and led to impassioned debate among Irish writers and academics for decades afterwards, including Sean O’Faolain and Frank O’Connor, Corkery’s rebellious students.
    Tom Garvin and Bryan Fanning, The Books That Define Ireland (2014)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGill Books
    Release dateDec 1, 1979
    ISBN9780717165773
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    Daniel Corkery

    Daniel Corkery (1878–1964) was an Irish poet, playwright, novelist, short-story writer, academic and politician. Born in Cork, Corkery was for many years a teacher and became a controversial figure in Irish academia for his radical nationalist views on Irish literature. His literary works include the plays The Labour Leader (1919) and The Yellow Bittern (1920), the short story collections A Munster Twilight (1916) and Earth Out of Earth (1939), and the novel The Threshold of Quiet (1917).

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      This is one of my very favorite books on Ireland. I need to pull it off my shelf and look it over again. Then I will amend this review. A short time ago I read that this is the only book that Eavan Boland has with her wherever she lives and travels. I can't remember where I read that, and now I regret that I didn't somehow bookmark this little bit of trivia by one of my favorite Irish poets about one of my favorite books!