By Geraldine Higgins
This e-book reassesses the cultural and political dimensions of the Irish Revival's heroic perfect and explores its implications for the development of Irish modernity. via foregrounding the heroic excellent, it exhibits how the cultural panorama carved out via those writers is much from homogenous.
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103 This autochthonous cult identifies oral culture with the land itself and returns to the old Irish narratives where etymologies of place names, like genealogies, served as mnemonic lists. Dindseanchas (the celebration of place names in the Irish language) created a poetic topography whereby the place names themselves were keys to the heroes and events they commemorated. 105 O’Grady conflates text and landscape in his self-appointed task as translator and interpreter of the heroic age. Ireland alone among the European nations, he claims, has preserved its past in a fragmented but legible form: But there is one country in Europe in which, by virtue of a marvellous strength and tenacity of the historical intellect, and of filial devotedness to the memory of their ancestors, there have been preserved down into the early phases of mediaeval civilisation, and then committed to the sure guardianship of manuscript, the hymns, ballads, stories, and chronicles, the names, pedigrees, achievements, and even characters, of those ancient kings and warriors over whom those massive cromlechs were erected and great cairns piled.
Dindseanchas (the celebration of place names in the Irish language) created a poetic topography whereby the place names themselves were keys to the heroes and events they commemorated. 105 O’Grady conflates text and landscape in his self-appointed task as translator and interpreter of the heroic age. Ireland alone among the European nations, he claims, has preserved its past in a fragmented but legible form: But there is one country in Europe in which, by virtue of a marvellous strength and tenacity of the historical intellect, and of filial devotedness to the memory of their ancestors, there have been preserved down into the early phases of mediaeval civilisation, and then committed to the sure guardianship of manuscript, the hymns, ballads, stories, and chronicles, the names, pedigrees, achievements, and even characters, of those ancient kings and warriors over whom those massive cromlechs were erected and great cairns piled.
They also share the same premise—that firm leadership is a natural and effective antidote to the threat of revolution and change. Central to each is the need for a heroic leader, awake to the responsibilities of his position since “high birth at all times implies high worth, and a life . . ”139 Carlyle distinguishes between the “idle Aristocracy” and the “working Aristocracy” in his bid to reinstate feudalism in England just as O’Grady will compare careless absenteeism with paternalistic landlordism in Ireland.