By John V. Kelleher
A set of eighteen severe essays and twenty-six translations spanning the profession of 1 of the founding intellects of Irish experiences, the chosen Writings of John V. Kelleher on eire and Irish the US contains 5 available sections. the 1st gathers Kelleher’s essays at the most generally recognized Irish cultural phenomenon—the literary renaissance of the early 20th century. half includes his really apt tests of Irish literature in its post-Revolutionary section. The 3rd part comprises Kelleher’s insightful essays at the adventure of the Irish in the US. The fourth part comprises essays that examine early Irish literature and tradition, establishing with a benchmark essay for Irish experiences, “Early Irish History and Pseudo-History,” which was once learn on the inaugural assembly of the yank convention for Irish experiences in 1961. the gathering concludes with Kelleher’s translations and variations of poems in outdated, heart, and glossy Irish, illustrating his command of the language at each level.
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Again, M. 15 Its effect, too, was as double as its meaning. It gave the Celt an “organisation quick to feel impressions, and feeling them very strongly; a lively personality . . keenly sensitive to joy and sorrow,” but at the same time it deprived him of “balance, measure, and patience . . the eternal conditions . . ”18 “Sensuousness” betrayed them: the sensuousness of the Celt proper that had made Ireland. Even in the realm of art failure dogged them for the same reasons. In . . poetry which the Celt has so passionately, so nobly loved; poetry where emotion counts for so much, but where reason, too, reason, measure, sanity, also count for so much,—the Celt has shown genius, indeed, splendid genius; but even here his faults have clung to him, and hindered him from producing great works .
The plays do not, of course, keep more than within intermittent hailing distance of the legends they are supposed to reflect. It was naturally quite in order that when Yeats first wrote of Cú Chulainn, in 1892, in the poem “The Death of Cuchullin,” he should kill him off. Though, as Yeats well knew, the Cú Chulainn of saga died at twenty-seven,Yeats made him an old man. Properly Cú Chulainn had only one son, Conla, whom he killed at Baile’s Strand, not recognizing him till the death wound had been given.
13. Celtic Literature, p. 83, cited from Three Irish Glossaries, p. xix n. The misspelling occurs in all editions of Celtic Literature, including Nutt’s. 14. Celtic Literature, p. 100. 15. , p. 102. The phrase occurs in Histoire de France, I, 36. 16. , p. 102. 17. , p. 115. 18. , p. 106. 19. , p. 104. 20. , p. 144. 21. , p. 152. 22. , pp. 161–62. 23. , p. 111. Yeats, Ideas of Good and Evil, p. 275. 22 Matthew Arnold and the Celtic Revival 25. Celtic Literature, p. 152. 26. Seosamh MacCathmhaoil (Joseph Campbell),“The Fighting Man,” The Mountainy Singer (Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1919).