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His many poems included "The Old Abbey Well", "The Burial of Sarsfield" and "Twilight on Slievenamon". However, his most famous poem was "Dawn on the Irish Coast", written in 1877 and later included in school books by the Irish Christian Brothers whose founder Edmund Rice was also born in Callan.
The Celtic Revival (also referred to as the Celtic Twilight [1]) is a variety of movements and trends in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries that see a renewed interest in aspects of Celtic culture. Artists and writers drew on the traditions of Gaelic literature , Welsh-language literature , and Celtic art —what historians call insular art (the ...
In 1893 Yeats published The Celtic Twilight, a collection of lore and reminiscences from the West of Ireland. The book closed with the poem "Into the Twilight". It was this book and poem that gave the revival its nickname. In this year Hyde, Eugene O'Growney and Eoin MacNeill founded the Gaelic League, with Hyde becoming its first President. It ...
An instrumental version of the song plays around the midpoint of the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "Passage on the Lady Anne". The song is performed at a Christmas party of the Adams Family at the beginning of "Chapter VIII: John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State" of The Adams Chronicles (1976).
Alice Meynell, Poems [7] Francis Thompson, Poems, [7] including "The Hound of Heaven" W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction [7] W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, and Edwin John Ellis, editors, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch [8]
John O'Donohue (1 January 1956 – 4 January 2008) was an Irish poet, author, priest, and Hegelian philosopher. He was a native Irish speaker, [ 1 ] and as an author is best known for popularising Celtic spirituality .
1893 – The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction [2] 1893 – The Rose, poems [2] 1893 – The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical, co-written with Edwin Ellis; 1894 – The Land of Heart's Desire, published in April, his first acted play, performed 29 March [2] 1895 – Poems, verse
Edmund John Millington Synge (/ s ɪ ŋ /; 16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival.