American people of Irish descent

satirical genre in order to negatively exaggerate the presence of Britain colonizers, as well as his use of repetition of the suffix (ing) serve to urge the Irish people into making immediate individualistic changes , in addition; his simultaneous use of syntax (long sentence structure) mimic the overbearing struggle and exhaustion that is felt by the Irish. Thus Swift empowers the Irishmen and critiques the unjust English repression of them. Swift utilizes a satirical genre of an exaggeration…

Ezra Pound eloquently highlights the overall impact Thomas MacDonagh had on Irish literature during his short life. Pound states that MacDonagh’s ‘loss is a loss to both Ireland and to literature, and it is a loss bound to be felt as his work becomes more widely known’. He was born in 1878 in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary to a father from Roscommon and a mother from Dublin, both school teachers. Both his family life and the influence of his parents are key to understanding the shape his life took…

explicitly discuss political issues, but rather to allude to the past to understand the present. As a native from Northern Ireland, politics did, however, affect Heaney’s life inexorably as it did with many in the political and sectarian strife between Irish nationalists and British unionists during The Troubles in the 1970s. Though tension between the two sides did culminate and explode in the form of violence during this period of time, the underlying reasons for The Troubles may have had to…

anglicizing the Irish names of the places. The major theme of the play is language, and more specifically how the loss of a language can also help erase people’s history, culture and identity. In the 1800s Ireland was still a predominantly Gaelic-speaking nation. In 1975, only 2.7% of Irish speakers possessed a native speaker ability and about 80% were found to be indifferent towards the language (Brannigan, 71). Friel’s play offers us a glimpse of how this enormous decline of Irish occurred.…

Satire is used in literature to criticize and point out society’s flaws. The criticism is usually masked in humour. Irony is commonly used in satires to expose flaws, an effective example is John Smith’s A Modest Proposal, in this essay he effectively uses irony, to communicate his argument about the poverty in Ireland. Similarly, in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale she criticizes the society that women live in. Atwood uses satire to display the oppression of women in political, religious…

problems.In Catch 22 the author takes the reader on an emotional trip through the extended use of satire. Satire is the use of humor to expose others stupidity another word to use would be mockery. In Heller's case it is the weaknesses of the several American institutions, such as religion,war, and many other things, he wishes to expose. In The book, Catch 22, Joseph Heller displays many different example of satire, however I will focus on one topic and that will be power, and how the officers…

reveal his resentment of British policies toward the Irish. Straightforward and poignant in his assertions, the speaker proposes that the impoverished Irish people could alleviate their troubles of famine, poverty, and overpopulation by selling their babies as food for the rich. In reality, Swift is not advocating for children to be eaten; he is simply using the tool of irony in a humorous way to draw attention to the poor living conditions of the Irish and to expose England’s unwillingness to…

Narayan accepts the realities of life ungrudgingly, taking things as they come to him – and so do his characters. Nowhere does he seem to be writing with an idea of rectifying the situation or the world. Nowhere does he sound sarcastic, or critical of people or circumstances. Criticism, bitterness, cynicism have no place in his works. Probably this kind of realization and attitude helped him form a balanced view…

role of women during the 1641 Rebellion. The 1641 Rebellion was the result of discontent with the British in Ireland due to a number of reasons, including but not limited to the failures of the Ulster Planation. During the Ulster Plantation many Irish lost their land and were left with less desirable land. As well as land and economic reasons, another factor resulting in the rebellion was Catholics unhappiness during the English Lord Deputy, Thomas Wentworth’s rule, many were unhappy with…

sensibilities. Swift was not an Englishman, but an Irishman. In addition, he was a man of the cloth, which no doubt afforded him a clear view of the sufferings of his people. He was also wise enough and educated enough to understand the nature of the injustices visited upon his people by the English, as well as the English attitude toward the poor people of Ireland. It is easy to assume that, after years and years of witnessing these things, he was bitter and furious. It is no surprise that he…