Xeración Nós was a Galician nationalist intellectual group of the 1920s, which followed from the cultural

Rexurdimento The ''Rexurdimento'' ( Galician for Resurgence) was a period in the History of Galicia during the 19th century. Its central feature was the revitalization of the Galician language as a vehicle of social and cultural expression after the so-calle ...

movement of the 19th century. The name alludes to the Irish

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("We Ourselves"). The group's tradition was revived by the

Xeración Galaxia The Xeración Galaxia (Galaxy Generation) were a group of Galician language writers centred on the Editorial Galaxia (founded 1950) which was established to publish and translate modern texts that would develop Galician national literature. The n ...

in the 1950s.Kirsty Hooper ''Writing Galicia Into the World: New Cartographies, New Poetics'' 2011- Page 21 "Galician language and culture, setting them up in opposition to Spanish language and culture, in a way that in 1922 was still new ... The renewal of Galician cultural history from the early 1950s, through the efforts of the intellectual group known as the Xeración Galaxia, was ... given the estate's refusal to authorize translation into Galician, with the slightly bizarre consequence that Galician was confirmed"

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