Volume 8, Number 12 · June 29, 1967
Two-faced Cathleen
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916 A Study of an Ideological Movement
by William Irwin Thompson
Oxford, 288 pp., $6.75
'We know from our literary histories,' writes Mr. Thompson, 'that there was a movement called the Irish Literary Renaissance and that Yeats was at its head. We know from our political histories that there is now a Republic of Ireland because of a nationalistic movement that, militarily, began with the insurrection of Easter Week, 1916. But what do these two movements have to do with one another?'
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