The Irish Identity: Independence, History, and Literature

The Irish Identity: Independence, History, and Literature

Series from 2016

Series from 2016

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Genres: Documentary

As Ireland shook off the shackles of British rule, it produced one of the greatest flourishings of literature in modern times - a spirited discourse that found the significance of the present entwined with the legendary past.

Discover the dazzling arts and bloody struggles of the Irish Renaissance and fight for independence, guided by great works from Yeats, Joyce, Lady Gregory, and others

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Roots of Irish Identity: Celts to Monks

Gaelic Ireland’s Fall: Vikings to Cromwell

The Penal Laws and Protestant Ascendancy

Ireland at the Turn of the 19th Century

Daniel O’Connell and the Great Famine

The Celtic Revival

Shaw and Wilde: Irish Wit, London Stage

W. B. Yeats and the Irish Renaissance

Yeats in the 1890s

Lady Gregory: The Woman behind the Revival

J. M. Synge and the Aran Islands

James Joyce: Emerging Genius of Dublin

Joyce’s Dubliners: Anatomy of a City

The Abbey Theatre

Lady Gregory as the People’s Playwright

Early Plays of J. M. Synge

Synge’s Playboy of the Western World

The Dublin Lockout and World War I

The 1916 Easter Rising

Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist

Joyce’s Portrait as Modernist Narrative

Yeats as the Great 20th-Century Poet

Michael Collins and the War of Independence

The Irish Civil War

Ulysses: A Greek Epic in an Irish World