Childish Adults in 20th Century Irish Literature

In contemporary Ireland, women have fewer children than decades ago. This fact is reflected in contemporary Irish literature. In William Trevor's "Reading Turgenev" and Edna O'Brien's "Wild Dead" there are few children. Both of these stories follow the struggle of adult and Irish relations, which has not been complicated by the task of raising children during the plot. Children are rarely seen anywhere, but many characters behave like adults adults.

WB Yeats is an Irish poet, playwright and is one of the most important persons of the passionate 20th century literature of Irish nationalism. He is a promoter behind the revival of Irish literature and in collaboration with Mrs. Alice Martin contributed to the Irish Renaissance, the Renaissance of the Irish Theater, the prose from the Victorian era to the 1920s. He studied poetry as a young man and was fascinated by the Irish legend and the very young occult. In 1924, he hosted a monetary committee responsible for selecting designs for the first currency of Ireland Free State.

William Butler Yeats is an Irish poet and playwright, one of the most important figures in the literature of the 20th century. Pillars of the literary institutions in Ireland and the UK, he served as Irish senator for two years in his later years. Yeats is a promoter that backed up the revival of Irish literature, and in collaboration with Mrs. Gregory, Edward Martin and others, founded Abby Theater and served as the initial CEO there. In 1923, he expressed his "spirit of the whole country in a very artistic manner" as described by the Nobel committee by his "Nobel Prize for literature respected by inspired poetry" I won the Nobel Prize for literature. Yeats are usually ... More »

William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet and was one of the most important figures in literature in the 20th century. As a backbone of the literary institutions in Ireland and the UK, he helped establish a monastery theater, and in his later years served as a Senator in the Free State of Ireland. Yeats, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn etc, is supporting the revival of Irish literature. He was born in Sandymount, Ireland, where he was educated in London. He spent his childhood in Sligo province and began studying poetry since he was very young, fascinated by Irish legend and occultism. These themes feature the first stage of his work that lasted until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest poetry was published in 1889 and his slow paced, lyrical verse shows Yeats' debt for Edmund Spencer, Percy Bess Sherry, and Raphael's brothers and poets.