Celtic Twilight and Irish Revival

In Ireland, the Celtic literary revival of the late 1900s led to our liberation from England’s yoke.

Source: Our Disinfolklore Universe (Munich Speech)

Douglas Hyde’s lecture “The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland” (1892) was Herder’s plea transposed to an Irish key. The Gaelic League, Yeats, Lady Gregory, and the Celtic Twilight movement used folklore to construct an Irish national consciousness. Within three decades, Ireland had its independence.

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