Irish Civil War

Houlihan is a mythological female figure who represents Irish nationalism in literature and art. In the play Cathleen ni Houlihan written by William Butler Yeats and Lady August Gregory, she is personified as an old, suffering woman, representing Ireland’s oppression by the English. Cathleen and the martyred Saint Joan of Arc, as represented in George Bernard Shaw’s play Saint Joan, share strong similarities. Significantly, Maud Gonne, the original Irish actress chosen to portray Cathleen on…

The Irish American culture is family-oriented, respectful, and hard working. When interviewing 86-year-old W.E., I learned what Irish Americans' views and practices are to prevent illness, promote wellness and maintain health. I also learned about the different foods Irish Americans eat and what folk medical remedies are significant to W.E. Religion is an important part of the Irish culture but when W.E. and his family suffered a tragic loss, he questioned his faith. I was influenced by the…

A Modest Proposal is an essay by Jonathan Swift of the 18th century. It is a satirical essay that talks about an argument that says infant children should be sold for their meat. Ireland needs a simple solution to help its poor population. The streets of Ireland are full of beggars, and they are mostly women beggars with children that struggle to find something to eat. The poor parents in Ireland spend all their time trying to find something to feed their large families. Even with all the…

In the essay A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift written in 1729, a proposal is demonstrated by Jonathan for preventing the children of unfinancially stable people in ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and making them beneficial to the public. As sarcastic and unproportionately disturbing his suggestions are, poverty had a key role into the written essay proving exaggerated solutions to add humor and his own personality to grab attention from readers so they can address…

(Swift 230). Instead of proposing a logical and practical solution, however, the Proposer offers a horrifying plan: selling the babies of poverty-stricken families into the food market to lessen the number of beggars on the street. With the majority of Irish children being used for food consumption and a small percentage retained for breed, overpopulation would no longer be an issue and the upper-class would have a constant food source. The Proposer goes on to list even more advantages of this…

Both Jonathan Swift and John Gay’s works have the same characteristic: the use of satire as a way to provoke a reaction in their readers. In A Modest Proposal, wrote by Swift, is a clear example of a satirical pamphlet. Due to the arise of the journalism and the newspapers, pamphlets became quite popular at that time, and Swift uses this layout to give his proposal more relevance and importance, and to take it serious, like the information in any other pamphlet. The satire is explicit right…

(www.poetryfoundation.com)(www.biography.com) When Heaney was eleven he was granted a scholarship from Saint Columb's College in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, so he took it and left his father's farm. As Heaney was growing up, he was introduced to Irish, English, and American literature and exposed to artists such as Patrick Kavanaugh, Robert Frost, and Ted Hughes.…

of voters required to capture a majority of the vote in any state. Frymer points out that “as a group, African American voters in the post-civil rights era tend generally to be more liberal that white voters, particularly on those issues most pertinent to the African American political agenda” (Frymer 30). As a result, blacks interests in areas such as civil rights and affirmative action are not generally part of the national party political agenda because of the left leaning tendencies of the…

Also, he states that he is not bent on his real ideas alone to fix the problem. Therefore, he says if there are any better ideas, that others should do it. He did not refute the opposing claims to leave room for those who may have better ideas than Swift and therefore, he is not so bent on his ideas. The weakness in Swift’s argument is that it does not account for how the people would feel about helping the poor. They may not feel the need to do anything for the poor; such as feeding them…

Introduction: Second-generation Irish migrants in post-WWII England took up a variety of noteworthy hybrid-identities. This particular study of displacement is significant in the context of WWII, which produced twenty-seven million displaced persons and furthermore, is relevant in a present day context because of the continually increasing number of refugees worldwide. This essay compares the way that the two popular music bands made up of second-generation Irish migrants, The Pogues and The…