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Irish literature
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...Irish literature: see Gaelic literature....
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Gaelic literature
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......Gaelic only in the 17th cent., the literature is conventionally divided into Old Irish (before 900), Middle Irish (until...Ireland are the foundation of modern Irish literature. The greatest Irish scholar of the time was Michael O......
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Irish language
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......medieval period a great Irish literature flourished. Grammatically...language, and the study of Irish is required in preparatory...schools. See also Gaelic literature. See H. Wagner, Linguistic Atlas and Survey of Irish Dialects (4 vol., 1958......
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Welsh literature
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......Early WorksThe earliest Welsh literature is preserved in about half...the 12th cent. However, the literature was highly developed well before...heroes—similar to those in Irish and Arthurian literature—is expanded by the addition......
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Hyde, Douglas
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...Douglas Hyde, 1860–1949, Irish scholar and political leader...responsible for the revival of the Irish language and literature through his founding of the Gaelic...in 1893. After teaching modern Irish for many years (1909–32......
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Lover, Samuel
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...Samuel Lover, 1797–1868, Irish painter, novelist, and songwriter. Before turning to literature, Lover was a painter, and in 1828 he became...Handy Andy (1842), a farcical novel of Irish life. His other works include Legends and......
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Yeats, W. B.
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......Yeats), 1865–1939, Irish poet and playwright...figures of 20th-century literature, Yeats was the acknowledged leader of the Irish literary renaissance...1922–28) of the Irish senate, and winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. Some of his best work......
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Celtic languages
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......not noted for an outstanding literature (see Cornish literature).Welsh (called Cymraeg...the 8th cent. AD (see Welsh literature). GoidelicThe third group...subfamily is Goidelic, to which Irish (also called Irish Gaelic......
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Ireland
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......The Shannon, the longest of Irish rivers, drains the western...in great numbers. Ancient Irish legend tells of four successive...but despite civil strife, literature and art were held in high respect...were extended into Scotland by Irish emigrants in the 5th and 6th......
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Arthurian legend
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......mention of Arthur in any known literature is a brief reference to a...developed into a considerable literature before Geoffrey of Monmouth...significant medieval Arthurian literature was produced on the Continent...Welsh Mabinogion, but much of Irish mythology is palpably identical......