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- Title
Celtic Gaslight: Urban Material Culture in the Writings of Seumas O'Sullivan.
- Authors
MANNION, SEAN
- Abstract
The article discusses the role of urban material culture in the 20th-century Celtic Twilight cultural movement in Ireland. Particular focus is given to poet Seumas O'Sullivan's relationship to material culture in his life and writings. According to the author, O'Sullivan and other participants in the Irish Literary Revival did not wholly reject material culture. It is suggested that O'Sullivan's later works exposed the false dichotomy between idealism and materialism while maintaining continuities with both his earlier works and mainstream European modernism. Details related to O'Sullivan's engagement with the physical world in designing and assembling his books are presented. Other topics include O'Sullivan's books "The Twilight People" and "Verses Sacred and Profane".
- Subjects
IRELAND; IRISH literary renaissance; O'SULLIVAN, Seumas, 1879-1958; IRISH literature; MATERIAL culture; MATERIALISM in literature; IDEALISM in literature; IRISH poets; MODERNISM (Literature); TWILIGHT People, The (Book); VERSES Sacred &; Profane (Book)
- Publication
Eire-Ireland, 2011, Vol 46, Issue 1/2, p43
- ISSN
0013-2683
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/eir.2011.0006