For an excellent account of the gender dynamics of Irish national allegory, from the Aisling to the Shan Bhan Bhocht, see Cullingford (1990):

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09502369008582073?journalCode=rtpr20

Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan (1928) by John Lavery

With reference to Valente (p.120), what are the allegorical meanings associated with the Old Woman's declaration of chastity? And how might this declaration comment upon the relationship between the fledgling suffragist and nationalist movements in Ireland?

What does this exchange of money suggest about Yeats and Gregory's conception of Irish national culture?

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