Rethinking Revivalism: a conceptual case study in Modern Irish literature

这个项目旨在解决学术界的一个重要空白，即我们倾向于谈论具体的复兴，而不是复兴主义本身。这一遗漏使我们无法认识到复兴运动本身是一种跨学科的批判性文化实践，它跨越了地理和历史的界限。在爱尔兰，很少有文化力量比复兴主义留下更深刻的遗产，但复兴这个词已经意味着1880年代至1920年代之间的一个短暂的历史时期。然而，就爱尔兰语言传统而言，证据表明，从世纪初开始，爱尔兰语的复兴是一个持续的项目，而不是一个单一的事件。比较复兴主义为爱尔兰盖尔传统提供了一扇窗户，这一传统极大地改变了我们对一场运动的看法，而这场运动在很大程度上被视为政治革命的文化之翼。我们面临的广泛挑战是将复兴运动定义为一个通用概念，同时尊重其各种表现形式。考虑到这一点，建议我们开始与爱尔兰复兴的个案研究和概念调查，这将有助于建立一个雄心勃勃的比较，跨学科的项目，这将询问复兴的概念，并检查在其应用程序中出现的共同问题的职权范围。这一项目的第一阶段将通过完成一个爱尔兰复兴的专著，绘制从17世纪到今天的课程，其中爱尔兰复兴话语的关键概念的进展将进行探讨。鉴于文学是爱尔兰复兴的核心，研究将立足于文学分析，但同时，民俗，教育，国家政策和其他重要领域的复兴将形成讨论的重要组成部分。该项目的主要概念主题将是时间性，物质和精神，综合和连续性，更新和成为，救世主和乌托邦。在这项研究中的一个关键的关键策略将是突出比较复兴可以揭示复兴在不同背景下的共性新的光的领域。这样，专着将考虑的影响，17日世纪爱尔兰反改革传统的当代爱尔兰小说;福音复兴和爱尔兰语复兴的19-世纪爱尔兰;影响哥特式复兴的帕特里克皮尔斯的爱尔兰语复兴;国家赞助的爱尔兰民俗委员会和国家领导的口头传统在苏联中亚的复兴。除了已出版的文献语料库外，所查阅的资料来源还包括大量档案材料，如《卡德海恩文件》、《安古姆文件》和最近公布的《军事历史档案局》，其中载有36份，000页的证人证词，包括大量与盖尔联盟和其他复兴主义组织有关的证词，这些证词尚未用于爱尔兰语言复兴主义的研究。将涉及直接从第一阶段开始的一系列研究领导活动。这将需要建立研究网络，以开展跨学科研究;召开一次关于比较复兴主义的跨学科讲习班;通过在非高等教育机构场所举行的公开讲座，让公众参与并传播专题研究成果;制作一部关于复兴主义人物的6集电视纪录片系列，为两个非学术伙伴提供阴影和讲习班;指导同事和协调爱尔兰和凯尔特研究研究所的影响活动，最后，我被安排在阿尔斯特大学的领导力发展培训计划，以增加我的领导力组合，并准备申请学术晋升为读者/教授。

This project seeks to address an important gap in scholarship whereby we tend to speak of specific revivals but not about Revivalism itself. This omission prevents us from recognising Revivalism as an interdisciplinary critical cultural practice in its own right which spans geographical and historical boundaries. In Ireland, few cultural forces have left a deeper legacy than Revivalism yet the word Revival has come to mean one short historical period between 1880s-1920s. Nevertheless, where the Irish language tradition is concerned, the evidence points to a continuous project of revival, evident from the early 17th century onwards rather than to a single event. Comparative Revivalism provides windows onto the Irish Gaelic tradition which dramatically transform our idea of a movement which is otherwise largely seen simply as the cultural wing of a political revolution. The broad challenge before us is to define Revivalism as a generic concept while respecting its various forms of expression. With this in mind, it is proposed that we begin with a case-study and conceptual investigation of Irish Revivalism which will help establish the terms of reference for an ambitious comparative, interdisciplinary project which will interrogate the concept of Revivalism and examine the common issues which arise in each of its applications.This first stage of this project will be achieved through completion of a monograph on Irish Revivalism, charting a course from the 17th century to the present day, in which the progression of the key concepts in Irish Revivalist discourse will be explored. Given that literature is central to Irish Revivalism, the research will be grounded in literary analysis but, at the same time, folklore, education, state policy and other areas of importance to Revivalism will form an essential part of the discussion. Among the chief conceptual themes of the project will be temporality, the material and spiritual, synthesis and continuity, renewal and becoming, messianism and utopianism. A key critical strategy in this study will be to highlight areas where comparative Revivalism can shed new light on the commonality between Revivalism in different contexts. In this way, the monograph will consider the influence of the 17th-century Irish Counter-Reformationist tradition on the contemporary Irish novel; the evangelical revivals and Irish-language revivals of 19-century Ireland; the influence of the Gothic Revival on Patrick Pearse's Irish-language Revivalism; the state-sponsored Irish Folklore Commission and state-led revival of oral tradition in Soviet Central Asia. Besides the corpus of published literature, sources consulted will include a substantial amount of archival material, such as the Ó Cadhain Papers, An Gúm Files and the recently released Bureau of Military History Files containing 36,000 pages of witness statements including a huge number relating to the Gaelic League and other revivalist organisations not yet used in a study of Irish language Revivalism.The next stage of the project will involve undertaking a series of Research Leadership activities directly following from stage one. This will entail research networking to develop interdisciplinary research; the convening of an interdisciplinary workshop on comparative Revivalism; public engagement and dissemination of the monograph findings through public talks in non-HEI venues; presenting of a 6-part TV documentary series on Revivalist figures, shadowing and delivery of workshops for two non-academic partners; mentoring of colleagues and co-ordinating impact activities for the Irish and Celtic Studies Research Institute, and finally, placement on Ulster University's Leadership Development Training scheme with a view to increasing my leadership portfolio and in preparation for an application to the academic promotion scheme to Reader/ Professor.