William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and the Birth of Modern Ireland

The Literature of Rebellion

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Yeats and Joyce felt that the fall of this historic figure shaped modern Irish literature?

A. John Stuart Parnell

B. Arthur Griffith

C. Queen Victoria

D. Eamon De Valera

D. Michael Davitt

“The modern literature of Ireland, and indeed all that stir of thought which prepared for the Anglo-Irish War, began when Parnell fell from power in 1891. A disillusioned and embittered Ireland turned away from parliamentary politics; an event was conceived and the race began, as I think, to be troubled by that event's long gestation.”

William Butler Yeats

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A. Eamon De Valera

B. Arthur Griffith

C. Michael Collins

D. Sean O’Casey

E. William Butler Yeats

Who Was the “Big Fella? One of the most popular Irish revolutionary leaders, Michael Collins helped negotiate the Anglo-Irish Treaty. He was the IRA’s Minister of Intelligences at the time. He might have been set-up to take the fall for anticipated dissatisfaction with the treaty. IRA leaders knew compromises would have to be made; they also realized that the more radical IRA members would reject anything less than complete separation from England. Under the treaty, Ireland was established as a dominion of the British Empire, had to pledge allegiance to English king, and the Royal Navy kept control of the Treaty Ports on Ireland’s south coast. At the signing of the treaty, Collins remarked, “I may have just signed my death warrant.” The anti-Treaty IRA members launched a Civil War on April 14, 1922. The rebels assassinated Collins on August 22, 1922 when they attacked his convoy in County Cork. The “Big Fella” was on route to Cork City seeking a truce to end the Civil War.

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A. The Beginning of the Civil War

B. The Death of Parnell

C. The Signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty

D. The Easter Rebellion

E. The Execution of Roger Casements

Yeats’s “A Terrible Beauty Is Born” Refers to What Event?

I have met them at close of day   Coming with vivid facesFrom counter or desk among grey   Eighteenth-century houses.I have passed with a nod of the head   Or polite meaningless words,   Or have lingered awhile and said   Polite meaningless words,And thought before I had done   Of a mocking tale or a gibe   To please a companionAround the fire at the club,   Being certain that they and I   But lived where motley is worn:   All changed, changed utterly:   A terrible beauty is born

Hearts with one purpose alone   Through summer and winter seem   Enchanted to a stoneTo trouble the living stream.The horse that comes from the road,   The rider, the birds that range   From cloud to tumbling cloud,   Minute by minute they change;   A shadow of cloud on the stream  . . . . . .

Too long a sacrificeCan make a stone of the heart.   O when may it suffice?That is Heaven's part, our part   To murmur name upon name,   As a mother names her child   When sleep at last has come   On limbs that had run wild.   What is it but nightfall?No, no, not night but death;   Was it needless death after all?For England may keep faith   For all that is done and said.   We know their dream; enoughTo know they dreamed and are dead;   And what if excess of love   Bewildered them till they died?   I write it out in a verse—MacDonagh and MacBride   And Connolly and PearseNow and in time to be,Wherever green is worn,Are changed, changed utterly:   A terrible beauty is born.

William Butler Yeats, “Easter 1916” (Abridged)

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A Revolution in the Literary Arts:

George Bernard Shaw

John Millington Synge

Sean O’Casey

T. S. Eliot

Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse

The Shadow of

the GunmanPygmalion

The Playboy of the

Western WorldThe Love

Song of J. Alfred

Prufrock

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A Revolution in the Visual Arts:

Picasso

Edvard Munch

Manet

Giacometti

Match the Artist With the Work

Brancusi

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Joyce in ParisMatch the Artist With the

Work

Ezra Pound convinced Joyce to settle in Paris to promote Ulysses and become part of its artistic milieu. Joyce found a patron in Sylvia Beach who opened her English–language bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, in 1919. Literary expatriates were drawn to her shop, which is in the background of the photograph, but her most celebrated literary efforts were made on behalf of her literary idol, Joyce. (The other person in the photo is John Quinn, the New York lawyer who defended Ulysses and the Little Review in court.)

Ford Madox Ford

James Joyce

Ezra Pound

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The Final Chapter of Ulysses Is one of the Finest Uses of this Writing Narrative Mode:

A. Unreliable Narrator

B. Stream of Consciousness

C. Epistolary

D. Voice Over

E. Alternating Person View Angeline Ball performs the final lines of Molly Blooms soliloquy and Ulysses in the film Bloom to end our quiz.

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