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short to extended periods of time. Trauma can affect at different levels, at an individual of course, but also at a widespread socio-cultural one, a trauma that resides in the collective consciousness of a people, as exemplified by the effects on the Irish people due to the great famine. Significant trauma can cause a great degree of mental anguish, distress, fear and general hardship which can pervade much to just about all of a single person or an entire people’s lives. A serious side effect…

The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory was a play published on March 9th, 1907 at the Abbey Theatre. The theatre being known for Irish literature and drama, the majority of Gregory’s plays were performed there. Different literary critic have slightly different suggestions on what they consider the main theme of this play to be. Two analysis of Lady Gregory and her one-act play that will be presented in this paper are by Elaine T. Partnow and Edward A. Kopper Jr. Two people who can be considered…

American Dream. Likely the most well known cause of voluntary immigration is the potato famine, in 1840 Ireland began to starve because of the potato famine. In the nineteenth century America's population increased from 30,000 to 100,000 in one year (The Irish in America: 1840's-1930's.). From 1820 to 1860 the American population held over…

Scots Gaelic Separately, Scots and Gaelic are two distinct languages, but Scots Gaelic is a completely different language on its own (Hahn 1999). The language family that Scots or Scottish Gaelic descends from is the Indo-European language family, being further defined in the sub-branch of Celtic languages (Ager 2015). There are two main types of Gaelic, Irish and Scottish, which are mutually intelligible. As the names might suggest, Irish Gaelic is largely spoken in Ireland while Scottish…

this leader (relevant biographical information)? Patrick Pearse was a key leader in the Easter Rising (Irish rebellion against British rule). He was an Irish man living in the late 1800s to early 1900s (1879-1916). (Green, http://www.ireland-information.com/articles/padraigpearse.htm) He was a nationalist and firmly believed that Ireland should be its own country. He was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (a group that wanted to use force to break the link with England). Pearse was…

Ireland, in County Mayo and is set in a country public house or shebeen and the playwright attempted to write the way Irish people actually spoke English, the language is known as Hiberno-English, there is also a lyrical, poetic quality to the language of the play. The actors all speak in a colloquial dialect that would have been authentic at the time. In the book, Modern Irish Drama: W.B. Yeats to Marina Carr, Sanford Sternlicht praised the playwright John Millington Synge on his ability to…

Jamisha Fletcher Irish Literature in English Dr. Martine van Elk September 14, 2015 Thomas Davis: Repealer or Rebel? In his essay titled “Moral and Physical Force: Violence in Irish Nationalism” Perry Curtis Jr. argues that Thomas Davis hides behind the guise of being a writer whose narrowing concern is the immediate and indefinite repealing of oppressive English legislature. Curtis claims that Davis is actually an agitator. That Davis is a rabble-rouser who uses violent language in his…

Catholic schools at the time, the Irish in Britain were also segregated from the general British population through the establishment of Irish working-class ghettos. “John Foster has described the existence of ghettoized Irish communities and anti-Irish hostility as a significant factor in the assertion of political and industrial authority over the indigenous working-class in the mid-nineteenth century.” (Hickman, 17). Throughout the nineteenth century, the Irish in Britain were attacked,…

Ireland lead the unity of the Irish people to a an altercation, one that is grieved upon amongst Irish history. Since the 1700's, Irish nationalists stressed about the necessity to withdrawal any British rule or influence from what they believed to be their own, God-given country. The British were a powerful empire that took advantage of their size and strength to control foreign lands. Ireland was in a state of servitude to the British. Throughout the centuries, Irish natives experienced…

With the resurgent interest in Irish Nationalism and subsequent Literary revival, many artists were encouraged to create works that were separate and distinct from all things English. This newly found undertaking was to draw upon the opulent and fertile tapestry of Irish history. As Synge prefaced in The Playboy of the Western World, “in countries where the imagination of the people, and the language that they use, is rich and living, it is possible for a writer to be rich and copious in his…