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The Irish Renaissance-or Irish Revival-that occurred around the turn of the 20th century fused and elevated aesthetic and civic ambitions, fueling a cultural climate of masterful artistic creation and resolute political self-determination reminiscent of the Italian Renaissance. Delve into this remarkable period with The Irish Identity: Independence, History, and Literature. Over the course of 36 enthralling lectures, Professor Marc Conner of Washington and Lee University reveals the multifaceted story of the Irish Renaissance through an exploration of its complex history and remarkable literature.
00:00 Irish Independence and Cultural Renaissance Coincide
02:01 Irish Identity Is Exemplified by Three Historical Guides
06:59 Burial Sites Prove the Brilliance of the Irish Ancestors
13:55 The Seat of Tara Reveals Reverence for Astronomy
16:31 Are the Celts the Ancestors of the Irish?
22:30 St. Patrick: Cultural Respect Survives
After laying the groundwork of ancient Irish history and centuries of British rule-from the Norman invasion in the 12th century through the brutal Penal Laws and the Great Famine-Professor Conner brings you inside the Irish Revival, when a group of writers began taking a keen interest in the uniquely Irish culture, from its language to its art to its mythology. This fascination fed into the growing demand for Irish nationhood, for the arts, culture, and politics of the time are inextricable.
Uncovering Ireland’s mythic cultural history worked in tandem with promoting the power of a nationalist political movement. As a consequence of British rule, the Protestant Ascendancy had become the dominant land-owning and political class, leaving Catholics and Irish country folk to nurture their identity, history, and myths under strong-often brutal-oppression. As you’ll discover in these lectures, the formation of the Irish identity in the early 20th century was a fierce struggle-a story clearly captured in the literature of the era.
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[@gaylenescott1317]

Wow, Thank you!! As an Irish descendent of I have searched and searched for such information to feed the soul... Truly eye opening and Speaker narrates so well....

[@GkPhotographic]

hi from Dublin , iv heard many descriptions of my culture , people and island .many very wrong and out of context . i wish to thank you for your research and openness and delivery in your description .

[@mushtaqmirani4173]

Excellent information on Ireland

[@truthseeker1871]

You're drivin' me to drink, lad. Thank you ever so much. I'm running like a crazy man so that I won't purchase this course. It's not your fault, lad. The fault is mine. You're so good that I know I won't be able to put the lectures down until I finish every last one of them. Happy days, Bro.

[@mjmjmj28]

Such great information, thx for sharing ❤️

[@connemaraadventureprogramm3233]

It think his statement that Skellig Michael is Granite outcrop is in fact incorrect. I'm not going to go back over the geo maps, but from memory it's Devonian sandstone and slate.

[@RobD2000]

I LIKE THIS! 😊

[@shoftim]

I wish there was a map view, of all of these lovely places to visit, just to get a better context of the geography.

[@antiqueoftheweek5032]

New Grange kicks off on the 21st of December. It's easy to remember because it's the shortest day of the year.

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

dude, this is cool

[@alisonarmstrong8421]

Newgrange as shown is very different from its original exterior. I was there in 19701-2 when it was being excavate with Leo Swan; then went bakin 2012 and inside...

[@Joshua_Jaguar]

Is that the Rock of Cashel behind him through the window?

[@joeavreg2254]

I'm glad you guys put in the effort but, for the love of Christ there's an island of us here and we have modern technology. You can ask us how these things are pronounced and said.

[@LilyGazou]

I took a class in Irish at the Irish Arts center in NY, 6 months. I retained so little. I’m trying with the Duolingo app now. Do you have any advice on something better for learning? Thanks.

[@clayfada6993]

Don't think you should refer to the celtic revival without refering to the Gaelic league or Gaelic Athletic association

[@TheBigmick33]

PS less I forget HON MAYO!!!!!!!!!!

[@blazayblazay8888]

We wuz kangs!

[@22grena]

Vote for the National Party or kiss goodbye to the Irish

[@longlivethechief2373]

Lovely profile pic there boi

[@FPSIreland2]

Dulta cheana féin.

[@robertmacdonald6527]

@@FPSIreland2 Sadly correct

[@Declan_Moriarty]

We need to revive Celtic pagan culture! That's the natural religion of Ireland, of the Celts and the Gaels.

[@pad5152]

The Celts were into blood sacrifices! Who are you thinking of putting to the knife?

[@praytherosaryeveryday2709]

Do you see the state of the world since we kicked the one and only God out, it's now over run by the devil and his fallen angels,

[@m.e.3614]

The Celts were seekers of knowledge, wisdom and truth. This is very important to understand, that they were SEEKERS of these things. Through the course of many thousands of years they learned much, and advanced a great deal, but they did not have all the answers and they were not right about everything. You say that paganism was the "natural" religion of Ireland, but what is "natural?" Is/was humankind in a "natural" state, or is there a higher state that is more "natural" but which has been lost, thereby leaving humanity in an "unnatural" state which looks "natural" by reason of the fact that it has become entirely "normal?" If you would agree that what we consider "normal" is, in fact, not "normal" (why else are humans always saying things like, "something is wrong with people," or "humans are so messed up," etc.), then it would be logical to say that human beings are not actually in a "natural" state. Therefore, what is the "natural" religion of any human being, including the Celts? If human beings are not even in a "normal" or "natural" state, how can they even identify what is "normal" or "natural?" The Celts were SEEKERS, striving to find something true from a state that is broken and flawed (and thereby not "natural" or "normal"). As a result, they found many truths, but also got much wrong. But as SEEKERS of the truth, who had studied a great deal and learned much more than many, would it not make sense that if they did find the truth that they were looking for, they would recognize it much easier than many others who had not studied as much and not been seekers to such a high degree? In other words, would the Celts have not been more "in tune" with truly "natural" realities than many others, and therefore able to recognize what is truly "natural" much faster? It is actually remarkable how quickly Ireland converted to Christianity. Within one generation the entire Island changed dramatically. Yes, there were those who did not convert, but the speed with which the Celts took to Christianity was quite striking. And the similarities between certain facets of Celtic paganism and Christianity is what some say helped to facilitate this quick conversion. In other words, it appears that they "naturally" recognized the truths in Christianity quite easily BECAUSE of their highly sophisticated education, learning and seeking which was very specific to them as a branch of Celts? So when you say that paganism is the "natural" religion of the Celts, I would ask in turn: would it be NATURAL for such an intelligent, sophisticated, educated group of people who were diligent SEEKERS of truth to have REMAINED pagan when they found an elevated variation of their own wisdom that had sifted out the errors, enhanced to a high degree what was already good, and introduced the remainder that they had so long been searching for? Would it have been "natural" for these SEEKERS to have ignored what they had been seeking all along, which was always a higher and higher truth? (Note that I am referring to Celtic paganism as it existed at the time of Ireland's conversion to Christianity. This is a very different, specific form of paganism and much has been lost to us. Therefore we cannot compare other branches of paganism, or those who consider themselves pagan today, to this form. It is simply not possible.)

[@biagiosancetta8876]

Sorry to be picky but I would have been pleased if the introductory images had not included a nylon strung harp made in Pakistan.

[@LughSummerson]

13:09, 13:42 It's not appropriate to apply Jewish mythology to the Celts. There's no reason to think that they believed the world or the Sun was created by a person.

[@kevincharlesperkins4395]

Actually, We Celts are the (real) is rael. Those others are impostors.

[@cheesegirl8624]

@@kevincharlesperkins4395 AMONG US!

[@robertmacdonald6527]

It's just as, if not more, likely that most pre-Christian Indo-European cultures saw both time and the cosmos as eternal without either a beginning nor an end.

[@rebeccalankford9810]

Ireland was not organally Roman Catholic. Many migrated from Ireland due to Catholicism to the USA to find protestant. Norwegian

[@22grena]

No it was originally pagan and then Catholic

[@alanbrady7116]

The migration to the America's and beyond had nothing to do with Irish changing to protestantism. They were overall catholic. Very few converted to protestant.

[@Everythings_A_Lie]

Great video but we was free for thousands of years we was the master race we had independence for thousands of years until rome after centuries of fighting ireland is where it all starts, the bible was Irish it was based of the church of isea, the Romans and British slaughtered millions and tore her apart all while silencing the true Irish preists and knowledgr Rome the doctored the bible and rewrote history us true Irish men and women know our history.

[@thomaskane5200]

The Irish were not Celts.

[@johndees4997]

What were they? Did they not speak a Celtic language? And have Celtic culture?

[@magnus3716]

Tuuatha de daanan means tribe of Dan. Irish were Hebrew migrants. It was called Hibernia (land of the Hebrews). Welsh (and also Gaelic) and Hebrew are extremely similar languages. Jeremiah brought the 2 Judean princesses there where they were married to the Irish kingly line. The stone of scone is also know as Jacobs pillow or the stone of destiny. It's supposed to be the stone Jacob used as a pillow. Tara is also a Hebrew patriach.

[@columbannon9134]

Hibernian was a name given by the Romans that meant Land of Winter.

[@columbannon9134]

Tara is an old name from Egypt, which it is now known in the last years with new findings that Ireland has early connections with the pharaohs of Egypt. There are no records of Jews in Ireland in these times.

[@conorspyridon7008]

Welsh and Gaelic are similar to Hebrew ?.....really ?? ....🤣 Tell me how ? ...!

[@johndees4997]

@@conorspyridon7008 linguists have pointed out similarities to Semitic languages. Not saying I agree but this is not something that the other commenter pulled out of his bum

[@iamachildofgodministry9360]

Tribe of Dan 1 of the lost tribes of israel

[@MV12379]

Irish Civilization LOL , Irish Celtic culture is based on British Celtic culture.

[@markcallaghan2789]

It's not though. Gaelic is a different branch of the celtic language to Welsh, the Irish spread the gaelic language to Scotland and the isle of man. Gaelic culture survived into the 17th Century until it was snuffed out by colonial rule. Parts of that culture are still alive and well. Educate yourself.

[@starpenta]

If you read up on 'Celtic history', there wasn't just one set of beliefs. It seems some scholars of Celtic history are divided about whether to even call the tribes in England, Scotland, Wales, or Ireland Celtic bc those societies weren't the same as mainland European Celts (before the Romans took over). Their (tribal-based) individual differences also included beliefs in other deities. It's actually pretty complicated. I quit researching it when I got that far into it

[@robertmacdonald6527]

It's a different branch of the same proto culture. Please stop the anti-Hibernist remarks