Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916: A Study of an Ideological Movement

We know from our literary histories that there was a movement called the Irish Literary Renaissance, and that Yeats was at its head. We know from our political histories that there is now a Republic of Ireland because of a nationalistic movement that, militarily, began with the insurrection of Easter Week, 1916. But what do these two movements have to do with one another? . . . Because I came to history with literary eyes, I could not help seeing history in terms and shapes of imaginative e...