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These machines serve also as engines from which to lobby for Ireland’s social, cultural, and ideological progress. With this premise in mind, these writers use images of machines to: 1) envision a cosmopolitan national literary revival movement; 2) redress negative stereotypes of Ireland and Irish people as being \"\"backwards\"\"; 3) reject the post-enlightenment belief in a disenchanted, merely rational world; and 4) counter traditional gender and sexual roles. In all of these instances, Irish modernists endorse outlooks that go against traditional social and cultural grains. Rather, they insist that modernization is a process that necessitates ideological, and not just technological, advancement. 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