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

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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 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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Vicente Risco Vicente Martínez Risco Agüero (October 1, 1884 – April 30, 1963) was a Galician intellectual of the 20th century. He was a founder member of Xeración Nós, and among the most important figures in the history of Galician literature. He is ...

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