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Irish Culture

Irish Culture. Part II. Language. English language vs Irish language *pressure from English rulers and resistance of Irish people *the decline in the use of Irish *efforts from the Irish government to promote Irish Characteristics of Irish English. Oral Culture.

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Irish Culture

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  1. Irish Culture Part II

  2. Language • English language vs Irish language *pressure from English rulers and resistance of Irish people *the decline in the use of Irish *efforts from the Irish government to promote Irish • Characteristics of Irish English

  3. Oral Culture • What is “oral culture”? • Irish oral culture reflections in business and daily life origin of oral culture value of oral culture nowadays

  4. Art Culture • folk heritage reflected in literature, music, dance, etc • consciously rooted in tradition rather than a “new” nation

  5. Literature • traditional oral literary works sagas, myths, legends, etc • the importance of traditional oral literature • four modern Nobel Prize winners for Literature and some important works • the playfulness of the English language (the avant-garde attitude) • “to forge the uncreated conscience of his race”

  6. Irish writer William Butler Yeats, winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize for literature, composed some of the most respected poetry of the 20th century. The themes of art, Irish nationalism, and occult studies all serve as central ideas in Yeats’s works. Here is a portion of Yeats’s poem “Second Coming” (1920-1921), which prophesies an imminent Armageddon.

  7. Waiting for Godot is one of the best-known plays of the Irish-born writer Samuel Beckett. The tramps Vladimir and Estragon, shown here, wait for Godot, who never arrives. Beckett’s play addresses the absurdity of, and need for, hope.

  8. Music and Dance • Old tradition sean nos Irish pipe • Dancing – intricacy and fervor • Irish musical instruments

  9. Visual Arts • “no visual culture”– a half-true cliche • reason for its underdevelopment • old tradition of visual art • “native” vs “foreign”

  10. Gundestrup Cauldron

  11. Book of Kells The Book of Kells, an illuminated Irish manuscript of the Gospels in Latin, contains sumptuous illustrations on vellum, including this page illustrating the arrest of Jesus Christ. The manuscript, which probably dates from the mid-8th century, is in Trinity College Library in Dublin, Ireland.

  12. Sports • Traditional sport game – hurling

  13. Hurling is one of the most popular team sports in Ireland. Players use a stick, called a hurley, to hit, catch, and throw the ball, or sliotar. Play moves rapidly from one end of the field to the other.

  14. Science and Technology • “arty” rather than scientific – a stereotype • important inventors and scientists • Irish institutions for scientific research

  15. Irish Culture: A Summary • Social culture • Work culture • A nation of imagination • Changes of a European and global Ireland • The shaping of Irish identity

  16. Eamon de Valera Irish independence activist Eamon de Valera served as prime minister of Ireland three times from the 1930s through the 1950s and as president from 1959 to 1973.

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