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In the final decades of the nineteenth century, American composers turned with increasing frequency to Irish and Scottish sources of inspiration, a trend that manifested not only in songs but also in large-scale instrumental works such as sonatas and symphonies. Though many of t…

In his 1893 poem, "To Ireland in the Coming Times" Yeats claimed to have shared a particular literary heritage with Ferguson, Davis, and Mangan, writers commonly understood as predecessors to the Irish literary revival. As this study demonstrates, however, these writers had oppo…