Chronology Acknowledgements Permissions Publisher?s Introduction Introduction Part 1. A COUNTRY IN PARALYSIS? J.M. Synge, ?A Landlord?s Garden in County Wicklow? Emily Lawless?from: ?Famine Roads and Famine Memories? Peig Sayers, A Battle That Never Happened Douglas Hyde?from: ?The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland? D.P. Moran?from: ?The Future of the Irish Nation? James Joyce?from: ?Ivy Day in the Committee Room? Augusta Gregory?from: ?Ireland Real, and Ideal? Michael Davitt?from: The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland Part 2. A THOUGHT REVIVAL Standish O?Grady?from: ?A Wet Day? Standish O?Grady?from: ?The Great Enchantment? W.B.

Yeats, O?Grady as Elegist for Anglo-Ireland Alice Milligan, ?When I Was a Little Girl? J.M. Synge, ?The Irish Intellectual Movement? John Eglinton?from: A Thought Revival George Russell (AE)?from: ?Village Libraries? Constance Markiewicz?from: ?Women, Ideals and the Nation? Mary Colum?from: Life and the Dream Part 3. MOVEMENTS AND MANIFESTOS Michael Cusack, ?A Word about Irish Athletics? Objects of the Irish National Literary Society from: The Gaelic League Annual Report Horace Plunkett, The Aims of the Co-operative Movement Opening Statement of the Irish Literary Theatre Objects of Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland) from: Manifesto of the Ulster Literary Theatre from: Report on the Inaugural Feis na nGleann Sinn Féin Resolutions from: Pearse?s letter to Eoin MacNeill on the founding of St. Enda?s School Ellice Pilkington?from: ?The United Irishwomen: Their Work? ?Ulster?s Solemn League and Covenant? The Constitution of the Irish Citizen Army Constitution of The Irish Volunteers Cumann na mBan (Irish Women?s Council) Poblacht Na hÉireann (Proclamation of the Irish Republic) The Democratic Programme of the First Dáil Éireann from: The Anglo-Irish Treaty Part 4. LANGUAGE REVIVAL Eugene O?Growney?from: Preface to Simple Lessons in Irish Louis Paul-Dubois?from: Contemporary Ireland Robert Atkinson?from: ?The Irish Language and Irish Intermediate Education? W.B. Yeats?from: ?The Academic Class and the Agrarian Revolution? George Moore?from: ?Literature and the Irish Language? An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire?from: My Own Story Frederick Ryan?from: ?Is the Gaelic League a Progressive Force?? Stephen Gwynn?from: ?In Praise of the Gaelic League? J.

M. Synge, ?Can We Go Back Into Our Mother?s Womb?? Patrick Pearse, A Gaelic Modernism? Part 5. AN IRISH LITERATURE IN ENGLISH? Stopford A. Brooke?from: ?The Need and Use of Getting Irish Literature into the English Tongue? Douglas Hyde?from: ?The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland? Douglas Hyde?from: ?A Óganaigh an Chúil Cheangailte\Ringleted Youth of My Love? Mary Colum?from: Life and the Dream Patrick Pearse, Letter to the Editor, An Claidheamh Soluis D.P. Moran?from: ?The Battle of Two Civilisations? W.B. Yeats?from: ?The Literary Movement in Ireland? W.

B. Yeats, Hiberno-English William Rooney, ?Is there an Anglo-Irish Literature?? Ethna Carbery, ?Mo Bhuachaill Cael-Dubh\My Black Slender Boy? Thomas MacDonagh?from: Literature in Ireland ?The Irish Note? Part 6. THEATRE MATTERS Augusta Gregory?from: Our Irish Theatre Harry Phibbs, ?Irish National Clubs 1900-1907? Alice Milligan?from: ?Staging and Costume in Irish Drama? John Eglinton, ?What Should be the Subjects of a National Drama?? James Joyce?from: ?The Day of the Rabblement? Frank J. Fay?from: ?The Irish Literary Theatre? Augusta Gregory and W.B. Yeats?from: Cathleen Ní Houlihan Thomas Keohler?from: ?The Irish National Theatre? W.B. Yeats?from: ?Opening Speech at the Abbey Theatre Playboy Debate? Eugene O?Neill?interview: ?On the Irish Players? Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh?from: The Splendid Years W.

B. Yeats?from: ?The Irish Dramatic Movement? W.B. Yeats?interview: ?State Endowment for the Abbey Theatre? Sean O?Casey?from: The Plough and the Stars Part 7. THE NATURAL WORLD W.B. Yeats, ?The Lake Isle of Innisfree? J.M.

Synge?from: ?Autobiography? Emily Lawless?from: ?North Clare: Leaves from a Diary? William Rooney?from: ?Irish Topography? Agnes O?Farrelly (Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh)?from: Smaointe ar Árainn Eva Gore-Booth, ?Women?s Rights? William Bulfin?from: Rambles in Éirinn George Bernard Shaw?from: ?A Visit to Skellig Michael? George Moore?from: Salve Robert Lloyd Praeger?from: ?The Fauna and Flora of Ireland? Part 8. MIND, EMOTION AND SPIRIT W.B. Yeats, ?Irish Fairies? George Sigerson?from: ?Fand and Cuchulain? Mary Battle, Prophecies W.B. Yeats, ?The Valley of the Black Pig? Eoin MacNeill?from: Phases of Irish History Kuno Meyer?from: ?Ancient Irish Poetry? J.M. Synge, ?The Oppression of the Hills? Part 9.

RELIGION W.B. Yeats, ?The Secret Rose? Joseph Mary Plunkett, ?The Little Black Rose Shall Be Red at Last? James and Margaret Cousins, Worlds Within Worlds Patrick Pearse, ?Fornocht Do Chonac Thú\Naked I Saw Thee? Frederick Ryan?from: ?Church Disestablishment in France and Ireland? Father Michael O?Riordan?from: Catholicity and Progress in Ireland Elizabeth Burke-Plunkett?from: Seventy Years Young: Memories of Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall John Eglinton?from: ?The Weak Point of the Celtic Movement? Part 10. THE WIDER WORLD Maud Gonne and the Boer War W.B. Yeats in America?interview: ?We Are Unlike the English in All Except Language? John Eglinton, Letter to Sir Horace Plunkett Sir Horace Plunkett, Letter to John Eglinton Arthur Griffith?from: ?The Resurrection of Hungary? Patrick Pearse?from: ?Belgium and its Schools? Rabindranath Tagore?from: The Post Office Roger Casement, Human Rights Eoin MacNeill, Imperialism Part 11. EDUCATION, AND POPULAR CULTURE Mary E.L.

Butler?from: ?Irish Women?s Education? Maud Gonne, Children?s Treats Percy French, ?The Queen?s After-Dinner Speech? Augusta Gregory, ?The Boy-Deeds of Cuchulain? Patrick Pearse?from: ?The Murder Machine? John E. Kennedy, ?The Debate on National Dress? Douglas Hyde, Irish Clothing J.M. Synge?from: The Aran Islands from: The Dun Emer Industries Prospectus ?An Feis Ceoil/An tOireachtas? Patrick Pearse, ?Óro ?Sé Do Bheatha Abhaile? Jack Judge, ?It?s A Long Way to Tipperary? Percy French, ?The Mountains of Mourne? J. M. Synge, The Grief of the Keen Dermot O?Byrne/Arnold Bax, Music in Ireland W.B. Yeats, An Abbey School of Ballet Part 12.

SOCIAL CONDITIONS Maud Gonne?from: The Distress in the West J.M. Synge?from: ?The Inner Lands of Mayo? Irish Homestead Competition James Connolly?from: ?The Language Movement? Sean O?Casey?from: Drums Under the Windows from: ?The Great Revival: A Wave of Temperance? Susanne R. Day?from: ?The Workhouse Child? James Larkin?from: ?Larkin?s Scathing Indictment of Dublin Sweaters? James Joyce?from: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Padraic Colum?from: The Road Round Ireland Part 13. WOMEN AND CITIZENSHIP Anna Parnell, ?The Journey? Mary Hayden?from: ?Women Citizens?Their Duties and Their Training? James Connolly?from: ?The Reconquest of Ireland? Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: ?Sinn Féin and Irishwomen? Mary McSwiney?from: ?Suffragists and Home Rule: A Plea for Common Sense? Constance Markiewicz, ?Experiences of a Woman Patrol? Constance Markiewicz?from: ?The Woman With a Garden? Part 14. A SOVEREIGN PEOPLE William Rooney?from: ?The Development of the National Ideal? Maud Gonne, ?The Famine Queen? W.B. Yeats?from: ?Noble and Ignoble Loyalties? J.

M. Synge?from: ?Possible Remedies? James Joyce?from: ?Home Rule Comes of Age? John Redmond?from: ?Speech at Woodenbridge? Patrick Pearse?from: ?The Separatist Idea? James Connolly, ?The Irish Flag? Sean O?Casey?from: The Story of Thomas Ashe Section 15. MILITARISM/MODERNISM James Connolly?from: ?Erin?s Hope? Helena Molony?from: ?National Activities? Peadar Kearney?from: ?The Soldiers? Song?/?Amhrán na bhFiann? George Russell?from: ?Physical Force in Literature? John Frederick MacNeice, ?On Refusing to Sign the Ulster Covenant? Eoin MacNeill?from: ?The North Began? Francis Sheehy Skeffington, ?The Writing on the Wall? Diarmuid Coffey, The Ousting of Douglas Hyde from the Presidency of the Gaelic League, Dundalk Patrick Pearse, Speech at the Grave of O?Donovan Rossa Francis Sheehy Skeffington?from: ?Ireland and the War? Augustine Birrell?from: Things Past Redress Sean (Joe) Keegan, The Countermanding Order James Stephens?from: The Insurrection in Dublin Louise Gavan Duffy, Kitchen Duty in the Pos.