One Land, Two Nations

Abstract

Cultural nationalism became the means of the reunion of Irish people and independence in Ireland. [...] Irish people believed that Anglicization had a demoralising effect. They believed in the power of education that would stop the decline of the Gaelic language and suppress illiteracy. The revival of the myths and history of the Irish past, and the literary works, the books, the journals and works of arts of the period all contributed to the formation of the Irish cultural nationalism that stood for the idea of independence.