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Catholic Nationalism in the Irish Revival: A Study of Canon Sheehan, 1852-1913

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From: The Catholic Historical Review
Date: 19980701
Author:Mahony, Robert

Catholic Nationalism in the Irish Revival: A Study of Canon Sheehan, 1852-1913. By Ruth Fleischmann. (New York: St. Martin's Press. 1997. Pp. xiv, 188. $65.00.)

During the early decades of this century in Ireland, when the Literary Revival, at its zenith, was earning the country international critical acclaim, one of the most popular of its writers was a parish priest from County Cork. But the aspects of Ireland featured in the work of W B. Yeats,J. M. Synge, George Moore, and Bernard Shaw, and which have continued to appeal to later generations of twentieth-century readers, have little ...

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