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In the fall of 1920 a group of Galician1 intellectuals published the first number of a monthly cultural journal which they called Nós. Until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 19362 the publication would become the symbol and the voice of a generation of thinkers popularly known as the Xeración Nós (Nós Generation). Their central role in the cultural sphere and political arena of their time has often been compared to the protagonism of the intellectual elites commonly associated with the development of the so called Celtic Revival in the Irish context3. It was not accidental that the name Nós, literally meaning “we, ourselves” echoed Sinn Féin (“we ourselves” or “ourselves alone” in Irish), the motto of patriotic groups formed in the 1890s for the revival of the Irish language and culture, later adopted by Arthur Griffith as the name of the political movement for national independence that he founded in 1902. In contrast with this motto, as we will see, the Galician grouping of intellectuals consciously and conveniently turned to their Irish contemporaries as emblematic role models.
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Caneda-Cabrera, M.T. (2009). “The Loveliness Which Has Not Yet Come Into the World”: Translation as a Revisitation of Joyce’s (Irish) Modernism. In: McGarrity, M., Culleton, C.A. (eds) Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive. New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230617193_7
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