Irish literary renaissance

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The Irish literary renaissance is the general term for a series of revivals of interest in poetry, drama, and fiction in English which was produced by writers from Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In a more detailed sense, it can be seen as starting with the Celtic revival, a period of renewed interest in traditional Irish myths and folklore starting in the 1880's, moving through a middle phase centered around William Butler Yeats and the Abbey Theatre, and finally through a later, explicitly modernist phase, of which James Joyce was the signal writer.

## Writers associated with the Irish literary renaissance[edit]

* Sir Samuel Ferguson 1810—1886
* Douglas Hyde 1860—1949
* William Butler Yeats 1865—1939
* Ethna Carbery 1866—1902
* Alice Milligan 1866—1953
* Dora Shorter (née Sigerson) 1866—1918
* George Russell (Æ) 1867—1935
* Ella Young 1867—1956
* John Millington Synge 1871—1909
* Nora Chesson (née Hopper) 1871—1906
* Sean O'Casey 1880—1964
* Padraic Colum 1881—1972
* James Stephens 1882—1950