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of Dublin Current style manual: Specifications for submissions (page limit, format The six pages journal was first published in print in 1st July 2004 as a double blind peer…

author’s writing style. Bram Stoker chose to follow the genre of gothic horror/ historical fiction in Dracula because of his interests in vampiric mythology. Stoker was born on November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland during the Irish potato famine. He was the third of seven children of his father, whom worked at Dublin Castle and his mother who was a social activist 20 years younger than her husband. Throughout his adolescence, Bram Stoker was ill and consequently, was forced to stay in bed and…

The realistic fiction story “The Sniper” by Liam O'Flaherty occurs in Dublin, Ireland during a civil war. It begins with a sniper on a roof during the night and there was hardly anyone on the streets. He is hidden on a rooftop eating a sandwich and scouring for threats. The author creates an eerie environment and also uses irony to create the theme that a person needs to think before acting. The Sniper, not thinking about his actions, results in consequences for himself. An example of this…

first House of Mercy in Dublin, a shelter and school to educate the less wealthy women and girls. She used her inheritance from the Callaghan’s to make this possible. In August 1827, a month before the House of Mercy was opened, Catherine’s sister Mary died of consumption. Mary had a husband Dr William McAuley, and five children aged six to sixteen. This was a big setback for her as she now had more responsibilities and her losses began to affect her life. The Archbishop of Dublin was very…

carried out, there can be certain groups within homelessness that have been left out or they may include biases. There is a survey carried out in Dublin every three years to determine the number of people who are using homeless services and or are registered as Homeless. Therefore this is not a valid measure as there are many homeless people living in Dublin who do not make use of these services or may not be registered but yet are still homeless.It is also not a reliable measure as the survey…

James had a pretty good occupation. He had left Dublin in October 1904 and became an english teacher at Berlitz school in Pola. He then married Nora Barnacle, and he took her to Pola with him. They lived on that continent for the rest of their lives. They legalized their marriage in a civil ceremony on…

Coleridge decided to write about the supernatural in his piece The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In Ulysses, Joyce went through the normal day in Dublin. For this book, Joyce did not want to be defined in a single genre; he wanted to “break down the accepted distinctions between genres and to create a new, unique form out of the resulting confusion” (Litz 78). In Ulysses, the main character Stephen…

every question. 1.Author name Oscar Wilde 2.Place of birth Dublin, Ireland 3.Date of birth 16 October, 1854 4.Date of death (if applicable) 30 November, 1900 5.Place of death (if applicable) Paris, France 6.Burial location (if mentioned) Paris, France, Europe 7.Interesting facts about this author’s childhood (parents, siblings, people that influenced them, interests, etc.) 1.Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. 2. His father was a doctor (eye-ear), a…

In the northeastern corner of Ireland, just outside the town of Sligo, is a small cemetery with a number of old, mossy gravestones. One of the gravestones reads “IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARGARET DAVEY” in faded white lettering, and signifies the life and death of my great-great-grandmother. Just a few minutes walk from the cemetery is a quaint house surrounded by a thick, green hedge. Here lives my great-aunt, Stella, who has been living in Ireland all her life. During the summer of my fourteenth…

There are similarities between John Updike’s short story, "A&P" and James Joyce’s short story, "Araby." The characters and their situation they are going through are alike both guys are crushing over a girl. There are some differences in the settings though, they are in two different countries. In both short stories the boys are trying to be heroes and win the girls affection, which in the end doesn’t work for either guy. The main characters in "Araby" and "A&P” have similar traits. They are…