The Irish Identity: Independence, History, and Literature

Patrick Kavanagh: After the Renaissance (1x33)

Air date: Oct 31, 2016

The Irish Renaissance had largely succeeded in bringing folk life to the center of cultural consciousness by the 1930s. At that time, the poet Patrick Kavanagh-hailing from the rural farmland-emerged with a critique of the sentimentality and nostalgia of Yeats’s generation. Explore how the next wave of poets carved out their own views of Ireland.