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Although modern research into the period has been significant, Daniel Corkery's 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.
The end point of the Elizabethan and Cromwellian clearances in Ireland was not just the subjection of its native people and the appropriation of its land and natural wealth; it was a nearly total erasure of its language and culture, its mythology, and its centuries-old systems of aristocracy, education and poetic patronage. But in the southwest of Ireland tatters of this culture stayed stubbornly alive, just long enough to be recorded by an emerging movement of folklorists, historians, nationalists and poets in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
''In 1925 Daniel Corkery published THE HIDDEN IRELAND: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century, which helped restore the old culture to sight by telling the story of its demise, and conferred on the declassed scholar-poets a new mythic presence. Reading the book even now, the story has a lost-continent feel to it: a complete and functioning culture, lingering in the overlooked rural corners of a conquered land. We recognize in these poems the heroic currents of sorrow, intimacy and rage unique to Irish verse.
( review by Glenn Shea)
This is a PB edition, 1979, published by M.H GILL, Dublin.
Edgewear to spine, internally has previous owner's name.
