However, some cultural groups have sought to revive the custom at Uisneach and perhaps at the Hill of Tara.

During his reign, Justinian sought to revive the Empire's greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the classical Roman Empire.

A new movement in the United States became visible in the early and mid-1990s that sought to revive the punk movement, doing away with some of the trappings of hardcore.

The council sought to revive the central role of Scripture in the theological and devotional life of the Church, building upon the work of earlier popes in crafting a modern approach to Scriptural analysis and interpretation.

In Russia, Viktor Hartmann, Viktor Vasnetsov and other artists associated with Abramtsevo Colony sought to revive the quality of medieval Russian decorative arts quite independently from the movement in Great Britain.

Li presented Falun Gong as part of a " centuries-old tradition of cultivation ", and in effect sought to revive the religious and spiritual elements of qigong practice that had been discarded in the earlier Communist era.

Pope Leo XIII had sought to revive the inheritance of Thomas Aquinas, ' the marriage of reason and revelation ', as a response to secular ' enlightenment '.

In recent decades, Leo Strauss sought to revive " Classical Political Rationalism " as a discipline that understands the task of reasoning, not as foundational, but as maieutic.

After a period of high creative turnover, in 1991 DC sought to revive interest in Swamp Thing by bringing horror writer Nancy A. Collins on board to write the series.

With the triumph of the Restoration and with it the Church of England, Dean Fell sought to revive a project proposed in the 1630s by the late William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury: a separate building whose sole use would be graduation and degree ceremonies.

The group were disgusted by the indolence prevailing in the Church, and they sought to revive the spirit of early Christianity, this caused tension in College as Provost Edward Hawkins was a determined opponent of the Movement.

He sought to revive the broken spirit of the simple Jews.

His general erudition, and the skill and success with which he sought to revive the study of the old Greek physicians, gained him a reputation, and ultimately the office of physician to the court.

In the context of contentious debate over the suitability of Norse mythology as subjects of high art, in which the strong neoclassical training of northern academies, both Swedish and Danish, furnished powerful prejudices in favor of Biblical and Classical subjects, the members of the Götiska Förbundet sought to revive Viking spirit and related matters.

Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla (, December 8, 1902 – September 11, 1982 ), better known as Wifredo Lam, was a Cuban artist who sought to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit and culture.

To counter its enemies militarily and politically, Russia sought to revive the Franco-Russian Alliance.

The Carolingian art of the Frankish Empire, especially modern France and Germany, from roughly 780-900 takes its name from Charlemagne and is an art of the court circle and a few monastic centres under Imperial patronage, that consciously sought to revive " Roman " styles and standards as befitted the new Empire of the West.

In 1989 Anton Foljambe sought to revive the Frontline title for his " Conservative Front " groupuscule.

" Their appearances, lyrics and musical style sought to revive a punk movement that they believed had lost its original zeal.

To revive the fervor of punk rock, which the band felt was being distorted by New Wave, The Teen Idles sought to make their appearance as intimidating as possible.

But his courage never failed ; and, uniting genius with industry, he was ere long foremost among the young national party which sought to revive the arts of Germany.

Finally he was forced to an open protest, which he caused to be inscribed on the journals, but the action of Capo d ' Istria in reading to the assembled Italian ministers, who were by no means reconciled to the large claims implied in the Austrian intervention, a declaration in which as the result of the intimate union established by solemn acts between all the European powers the Russian emperor offered to the allies the aid of his arms, should new revolutions threaten new dangers, an attempt to revive that idea of a universal union based on the Holy Alliance against which Britain had consistently protested. The objections of Britain were, however, not so much to an Austrian intervention in Naples as to the far-reaching principles by which it was sought to justify it.

Colonial Revival ( also Neocolonial, Georgian Revival or Neo-Georgian ) architecture was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts.

Timotheus ( died 354 BC ) was a Greek statesman and general who sought to revive Athenian imperial ambitions by making Athens dominant in a second Athenian Empire.

In the middle of the 18th century, Europe began to move toward a new style in architecture, literature, and the arts, generally known as Classicism, which sought to emulate the ideals of Classical antiquity and especially those of Classical Greece.

As the father of the Order of Preachers, Dominic had a lasting influence on a group of people who sought to fulfill his ideals.

Surrealists have often sought to link their efforts with political ideals and activities.

The ideals of the Abbey were derived from the avant-garde French theatre, which sought to express the " ascendancy of the playwright rather than the actor-manager à l ' anglais.

Both Foucault and the revolutionaries were highly critical of modernity and sought a new form of politics, they both also looked up to those who risked their lives for ideals ; and both looked to the past for inspiration.

The Augustinian friars came into being as part of the mendicant movement of the 13th century, a new form of religious life which sought to bring the religious ideals of the monastic life into an urban setting which allowed the religious to serve the needs of the People of God in an apostolic capacity.

The leaders of the Irish Parliamentary Party ( IPP ) sought a rapprochement with Griffith over the British threat of conscription, which both parties condemned, but Griffith refused unless the IPP embraced his more radical and subversive ideals, a suggestion which John Dillon, a leader of the IPP rubbished as unrealistic, although it would ultimately mean the defeat and dissolution of the IPP after the election in December 1918.

However, this was done to keep Spain's citizens consistent with the ideals sought by the FET y de las JONS and Franco.

Although Lewis sought to portray the middle-aged American in Babbitt, he includes tidbits of his character ’ s youthful dreams and ideals.

Fukuyama sketches a brief history of man's changing understanding of human nature: from Plato and Aristotle's belief that humans had " natural ends " to the ideals of utopians and dictators of the modern age who sought to remake mankind for ideological ends.

A staunch utilitarian, he sought to improve Indian society under the prevalent Benthamite ideals of the period.

Co-opting Russian nationalism, he attacked the infiltration of Western ideals into Russian society and portrayed Russia as a great nation that had been dismantled from within by traitors in cahoots with Western capitalists who sought the dissolution of Soviet power in order to exploit Russia's boundless resources.

In light of this, historians have sought to define romanitas using a number of approaches: one way is to consider the general ideals Romans attributed to themselves ; another approach, which has achieved consensus amongst scholars, is to consider the construction of Roman identity during the process of colonization.

Adolf Hitler admired the ideals exemplified by the Ford Model T, ( even though he didn't drive himself ), and sought the help of Ferdinand Porsche to create a ' peoples-car ' - literally Volks-Wagen, with the same ideals for the people of Germany.

During their hearing in the High Council Tower, Orion rigorously defended their ideals, even reviving the ancient philosophical phrase " Autobots " to describe the autonomy his brethren sought.

Paternalism, a subtle form of social engineering, refers to the control of workers by their employers who sought to force middle-class ideals upon their working-class employees.

More specifically, he sought to resist what he saw as America's growing barbarism by teaching his students of the correct way to write, use, and understand language, teaching that connected Weaver with Platonist ideals.

In 2003 and 2004, the Hispanic Project produced more than twenty commercials on Spanish-language television, radio and Internet that sought to speak directly to America's growing Latino community and highlight the values and ideals that they see as the bond between Hispanic voters and progressive causes, and has recently stepped up its ad campaigns and project initiatives in hopes of reclaiming lost ground among those voters as evidenced by the outcome of the 2004 presidential election.

Started in continental Europe in the 1950s, the SI was an avant-garde political movement that sought to recapture the ideals of surrealist art and use them to construct new and radical social situations.

In 1825, the family left Philadelphia and traveled to New Harmony, Indiana, a utopian community on the Ohio River led by Robert Owen and sought to follow communitarian ideals.

His books have sought to explicate the ideals of human social, political, and economic activity, and to free them from their institutional chains.

Founded in December, 1845 or in January, 1846, the society sought to revive the ideals of the traditional Ukrainian brotherhoods.

After the Song granted Western Xia indemnities similar to those granted the Liao in the Treaty of Shanyuan, Fan, along with other advocates of Confucian ideals, sought reform at the court.