Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-16 | Page 8 | The Celtic Renaissance

uu THE CELTIC RENAISSANCE. The Celtic Renaissance, begun nbout tho year 1890, very rapidly declared de-clared ItBelf in definite channels. Tho Irish peasant was made the contral object of InteroBt- the squalor and poverty In .which ho lived woro pitted pit-ted against tho rich background of folk-lore before which ho moved Literature Lit-erature had caught flashes of Irish peasant life In "Castle Rackrent," but now it was to exalt the very heart of Ireland itaelff Irish character heretofore here-tofore had boon cast In tho mold of English models, as In Goldsmith and Sheridan; or had been eonvontionalh caricatured, as In Bouclcault Now, It should be depicted through the medium me-dium of Irish sympathy. This Intellectual energy gathering headway, the Gaelic league was founded In 1SD.1, probably encouraged by the establishment of tho National Literary society, by Mr. Yeats In Dublin Dub-lin In 1S91. Dates are significant only as an Indication of tho rapid spread otjthe movemonL The year 1893 saWfthQ .light also of the Irish Literary iBOclcty and the Irish Text society, both intend on editing old Irish texts. Mr. Yeats' literary organization or-ganization fathered the causo of tho Irish- Literary theater in 1S9S, and It camo into existence intent on ha-Ing ha-Ing a policy as Invigorating and ns productve of originality hb the Independent Inde-pendent theater In London and An-tolno's An-tolno's Theater Libre In Paris. Metropolitan.