Irish Plays and Playwrights - Cornelius Weygandt - Bog

To the general reader the Celtic Renaissance was a surprise, and even to Irish writers deeply interested in their country the phenomenon or movement, call it which you will, was not appreciated as of much significance at its beginning. Writing in 1892, Miss Jane Barlow was not hopeful for the immediate future of English literature in Ireland;-it seemed to her "difficult to point out any quarter of the horizon as a probable source of rising light."