Publication Date
5-8-2006
Keywords
Manx; culture; Manx Gaelic; literature; survival; revival; identity; tholtan
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Celtic Studies | English Language and Literature | Folklore | History | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Linguistics | Theatre History
Abstract
This paper accesses Manx cultural survival by examining the work of one of the most controversial of Manx cultural figures, Mona Douglas, alongside one of the most well loved, T.E. Brown. It uses the literature in the Isle of Man over the period 1880-1980 as a means of identifying attitudes toward two successive waves of cultural survival and revival. Through a reading of Brown's Prologue to the first series of Fo'c's'le Yarns, 'Spes Altera', "another hope", 1896, and Douglas' 'The Tholtan' – which formed part of her last collection of poetry, Island Magic, published in 1956 – the differing nationalist and revivalist roles of the two authors are revealed.
Recommended Citation
Maddrell, Breesha
(2006)
"Of Demolition and Reconstruction: a Comparative Reading of Manx Cultural Revivals,"
e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies: Vol. 2, Article 4.
Available at:
https://dc.uwm.edu/ekeltoi/vol2/iss1/4
Spes Altera To the Future Manx Poet, by T.E. Brown
the-tholtan.pdf (23 kB)
The Tholtan, by Mona Douglas
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