Roy Foster Lecture - The Revolutionary Generation 1890 – 1923
Student societies, agit-prop theatre groups, vegetarian restaurants, feminist collectives, volunteer militias, Irish-language summer schools, and radical newspaper offices were central to Ireland's revolutionary generation between 1890 - 1923.
Roy Foster's book 'Vivid Faces' investigates that world, and the extraordinary people who occupied it. Looking back from old age, one of the most magnetic members of the revolutionary generation reflected that 'the phoenix of our youth has fluttered to earth a miserable old hen', but he also wondered 'how many people nowadays get so much fun as we did'.
Working from a rich trawl of contemporary diaries, letters and reflections, Vivid Faces re-creates the argumentative, exciting, subversive and original lives of people who made a revolution, as well as the disillusionment in which it ended.
EVENT INFORMATION
Royal Irish Academy October 6th, 6 pm
Cost: €5/3 Booking essential : ww.ria.ie