Writing in 1894 in the American journal The Outlook: A Family Magazine, the Irish poet and novelist Katharine Tynan identified the Irish Literary Revival as a distinctive movement within the wider trends of English literature. For her, the Revival had begun with the Gaelic poetry that ‘had been exquisitely translated into English by Edward Walsh, Ferguson, Mangan, Callanan, and others, thirty or forty years ago’, and had reached its zenith with the publication of Douglas Hyde’s Love Songs of Connaught (1893), a collection that brought ‘fresh and exquisite earth-songs’ to a wider English audience than the previous Revival poets had been able to capture.