The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland

After Began Century Cultural Desires Each Failed Famine Forties Half Identity Independence Ireland Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Other Political Riffs Second Self-Determination Series Shape Sixties Time

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