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  • Chapter 9 - Between Revivalist Lyric and Irish Modernism

  • Edited by Ailbhe Darcy, Cardiff University, David Wheatley, University of Aberdeen
  • Book:
    A History of Irish Women's Poetry
    Published online:
    11 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 July 2021, pp 173-188

  • Summary

    Women played an important part in the Irish Revival, only to discover their contributions were not always welcome, after the establishment of the Irish Free State, in the new dispensation they had helped to create. While modernist writing was a marginal presence on the Irish scene, women writers – with some notable, if partial exceptions (Blanaid Salkeld) – were a subset of this subset. One form in which women poets continued to work prolifically was the ballad, as in the work of Temple Lane, which takes refuge in suburban spaces from the schematic backdrops of rural and urban settings alike. For another writer in a similar vein, Kathleen Arnold Price, marginality meant avoiding publication in volume form, while Sheila Wingfield cultivated a performative distance from themes of hearth and home celebrated in her clipped lyrics. Critically at odds with both their Revivalist inheritance and modernist alternatives, Irish women poets of this period carved out a space of their own as modern traditionalists.