# Innti > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Innti > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Innti.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innti > Source revision: 1356235532 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Irish language poetry movement}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Use Irish English|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Innti | image_file = | image_size = 46 KB | image_caption = | editor = [Michael Davitt](/source/Michael_Davitt_(poet)) | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | category = [Irish poetry](/source/Irish_poetry) | frequency = Sporadic | total_circulation= | circulation_year= | publisher = | founder = | firstdate = 1970 | country = Ireland | based = [County Cork](/source/County_Cork) | language = [Irish language](/source/Irish_language) | website = | issn = }} '''''Innti''''' was a [literary movement](/source/literary_movement) of poets writing [Modern literature in Irish](/source/Modern_literature_in_Irish), associated with a [literary journal](/source/literary_journal) of the same name founded in 1970 by [Michael Davitt](/source/Michael_Davitt_(poet)), [Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill](/source/Nuala_N%C3%AD_Dhomhnaill), [Gabriel Rosenstock](/source/Gabriel_Rosenstock), [Liam Ó Muirthile](/source/Liam_%C3%93_Muirthile), later joined by [Louis de Paor](/source/Louis_de_Paor).{{cite news|url=https://blogs.haverford.edu/celticfringe/2014/05/02/innti/|publisher=The Celtic Fringe|title=Innti|date=5 December 2015}} These writers were students of [University College Cork](/source/University_College_Cork), drawing inspiration from [Seán Ó Ríordáin](/source/Se%C3%A1n_%C3%93_R%C3%ADord%C3%A1in) and [Seán Ó Riada](/source/Se%C3%A1n_%C3%93_Riada),{{cite news|url=http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/3051/30/Liam-O-Muirthile|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220104845/http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/3051/30/Liam-O-Muirthile|url-status=usurped|archive-date=20 December 2013|publisher=Poetry International Web|title=Liam Ó Muirthile|date=5 December 2015}}{{cite news|url=https://www.festivaldepoesiademedellin.org/en/Revista/ultimas_ediciones/93/muirthile.html|publisher=Liam Ó Muirthile|title=Offshore on Land|date=5 December 2015}} as well as American influences such as the [Beat movement](/source/Beat_movement) and the [counterculture of the 1960s](/source/counterculture_of_the_1960s). Their reception was mixed, with literary traditionalists resenting their [urbanism](/source/urbanism), [social liberalism](/source/social_liberalism) and "foreign" Anglo-American influences.{{cite news|url=http://www.archipelago.org/vol7-3/dorgan.htm|publisher=Theo Dorgan|title=Twentieth-Century Irish Language Poetry|date=5 December 2015}} ==Background== Some prominent Gaelic poets in the generation prior to ''Innti'' were associated with the journal ''[Comhar](/source/Comhar)''. Among these, who were of relevance to ''Innti'' were [Seán Ó Ríordáin](/source/Se%C3%A1n_%C3%93_R%C3%ADord%C3%A1in) and the author of ''Nuabhéarsaíocht'', [Seán Ó Tuama](/source/Se%C3%A1n_%C3%93_Tuama). These writers were both from the [County Cork](/source/County_Cork) area and Ó Ríordáin especially introduced European-styles into Irish-language poetry and themes of modern urban life. Ó Tuama held seminars on Irish poetry at [University College Cork](/source/University_College_Cork) where ''Innti'' was founded in 1970.{{fact|date=September 2021}} Aside from these local Irish influences, ''Innti'' was also influenced by the American-led [counterculture](/source/counterculture) of the 1960s which spread throughout the [Western world](/source/Western_world). Among these foreign influences (principally from [American poetry](/source/American_poetry)) were [Beat poets](/source/Beat_poets) such as [Allen Ginsberg](/source/Allen_Ginsberg) and [Jack Kerouac](/source/Jack_Kerouac). ''Innti'' marked a counterpoint to the traditional [Irish nationalist](/source/Irish_nationalist) idealizatio of the ''[Gaeltacht](/source/Gaeltacht)'' as a somewhat austere, rural [Catholic](/source/Irish_Catholic) bastion of a Pre-Colonial Ireland, counter-posed to "English decadence" in the cities. The [Sexual Revolution](/source/Sexual_Revolution), questioning of authority, a more [cosmopolitan](/source/cosmopolitanism) writing of Gaelicness and the arrival of [pop music](/source/pop_music) were innovations in Gaelic from ''Innti''.{{harvnb|Koch|2004|p=1018}}. The eclecticism of ''Innti'', drawing from non-Gaelic sources, also allowed for Oriental-influences, such as the ''[Tibetan Book of the Dead](/source/Tibetan_Book_of_the_Dead)'' and Japanese ''[haiku](/source/haiku)'' poetry, to feature alongside Anglophone and French modernist ones such as [E. E. Cummings](/source/E._E._Cummings), [T. S. Eliot](/source/T._S._Eliot), [Wallace Stevens](/source/Wallace_Stevens) and [Charles Baudelaire](/source/Charles_Baudelaire).{{harvnb|Welch|2004|p=262}}. This [post-Christian](/source/post-Christian) environment even led to some, such as Rosenstock, exploring deeper [Indo-European](/source/Indo-European_languages) connections between [Buddhism](/source/Buddhism) and pre-Christian [Irish mythology](/source/Irish_mythology) and [Gaelic culture](/source/Gaelic_culture).{{fact|date=September 2021}} ==See also== * [Modern literature in Irish](/source/Modern_literature_in_Irish) * [Cúil Aodha](/source/C%C3%BAil_Aodha) and [Corca Dhuibhne](/source/Gaeltacht_Corca_Dhuibhne) ==References== {{Reflist}} ===Bibliography=== {{refbegin|2}} * {{cite book |title=Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010|last=Falci|first=Eric|year=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1107018136}} * {{cite book |title=Irish Poetry Since 1950: From Stillness Into History|url=https://archive.org/details/irishpoetrysince00good|url-access=registration|last=Goodby|first=John|year=2000|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=071902997X}} * {{cite book|title=Cross-Addressing: Resistance Literature and Cultural Borders|last=Hawley|first=John C|year=1996|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=0791429288|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/crossaddressingr0000unse}} * {{cite book |title=The Irish Writer and the World|last=Kiberd|first=Declan|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=1139446002}} * {{cite book |title=Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia|last=Koch|first=John T.|year=2004|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781851094400}} * {{cite book |title=The Cold of May Day Monday: An Approach to Irish Literary History|last=Welch|first=Robert Anthony|year=2004|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=019968684X}} {{refend|2}} {{Irish poetry}} {{Irish linguistics}} {{Gaeltacht}} Category:Irish literature Category:1970 establishments in Ireland Category:20th-century Irish poets Category:University College Cork --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Innti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innti) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innti?action=history)). 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