ENG 342RW Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cathleen Ni Houlihan (Play), W. B. Yeats, Irish Mythology
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He wants them to intertwine european ideas too. Instead he turns to mythology and folklore because it reflects how the europeans always borrow from greek and roman classical mythology. Parents would beat their children for speaking gaelic at home- irish was seen as a badge of poverty, see as the thing that kept you down. Yeats and lady gregory: cathleen ni houlihan is a one-act play by irish poet and dramatist william butler. Yeats and irish dramatist and theater manager lady gregory, written and first performed and published in 1902. Centering on the events of the 1798 rebellion against british rule in ireland, it is a nationalistic play centering around the titular heroine, who is a fictional representation of irish independence. She appears as an old woman at the home of a family celebrating their son"s wedding and encourages the young man to leave his home and fight for ireland.
