Irish Civil War

murderer to others. It is often hard to believe that simple things such as potatoes can be such a devastating thing to engulf a nation. This is of course the Great Hunger, also known as the Great Famine. It was one if not the most devastating events in Irish history. Costing Ireland an estimated 800,000 lives to hunger , and even more emigrating out to other nations. Though this number does not stack up to other tragedies in size, this made up roughly 10 percent of the population alone, not…

The Irish Diaspora in the US is massive with the 1990 census totalling an immense 43 million Americans consider themselves to be Irish American which at the time equated to roughly 19% of the American population(Feargal Cochrane 2007:218). Beyond just equating for a fifth of the American population, a third of American…

symbol of Irish pride. Whether it be due to the luck of the Irish or being in the right place at the right time, Saint Patrick, at least his name rather than his legacy, is long from being buried in the depths of history. Patrick was born in 387…

the course of history, politics and comedy often go hand in hand. Edgeworth uses this idea to make some very interesting commentary about the state of the relationship between Britain and Ireland at the time, and what it meant to be truly British or Irish. Within the novel we meet the character of young Lord Glenthorn, who is bored of his rich and extravagant life, and no longer takes any interest in the fortunes in his possession. We learn shortly that the only reason he does not end his own…

Patrick McCabe and John McGahern are noted as two of Ireland’s most influential writers. Although their works have similar themes and take on issues prevalent in Ireland at the time, they have drastically different writing styles. McCabe is cynical yet humorous as he takes on darker subject matters. McGahern in more straightforward in his delivery of despairing plots. McCabe takes a strong interest in small-town Ireland and uncovers the inner workings of small-town folk, all the while…

times when one’s observations of what surrounds him or her lead to conclusions about common sense and society standards . In “Among the School Children,” W.B.Yeats structures his poem as an argumentative piece criticising the social status of the Irish people at the time. To accomplish this, Yeats starts by building up a speaker that could convey this message . The speaker characterises himself as a “sixty-year-old smiling public man” but one can also see evidence of literacy as he keeps…

GENERAL ENGLISH Continuous Internal Assessment-III SUMMARY Author Edmund John Millington Synge (16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and collector of folklore. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre. Although he came from a privileged Anglo-Irish background, Synge's writings are mainly concerned with the world of the Roman Catholic peasants of rural Ireland and with what he…

1840s” by Ruth Bleasdale discusses the social disorder of class conflict on the canals of British North America. In the 1840s numerous Irish immigrants were migrating to Canada whose sole choice was to enter the capitalist labour market and accept any wages given by the contractor. However, the unemployment rates in Upper Canada were at peak and several thousand Irish labourers were living in extreme poverty and facing starvation. The thesis of this article claims that the violence caused by the…

that is seen. In one part of the proposal, he said that the people within the country of Ireland should not be treated in a harmful way. As a whole, they should not be treated like vicious and caged animals. He actually takes the time to compare the Irish people to animals, but he does not want them to be treated in an ill manner. He actually says the following: “"I rather recommend buying the children alive, and dressing them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs.” This specific part of…

JOANNA BOTES 843963 WORD COUNT:1802 QUESTION 1: “Because satire often combines anger and humour it can be profoundly disturbing-because it is essentially ironic or sarcastic,it is often misunderstood”.Do you agree?Argue with close reference to events and characters in Oyono’s Houseboy and Eppel’s Absent:The English Teacher. This statement is correct as the writers satirical motive can often be misunderstood by the audience.Both Oyono and Eppel are political satirists and their…