Irish people

Scotland V.S. Canada Every year, my family and I go to Scotland for 2 weeks, and every year I have an amazing Scottish soda named Irn Bru. The soda tastes amazing, and I always feel happy after having some. Irn Bru was made in Scotland in 1901 by a company named Barr. Barr makes many great tasting sodas, they make many types. Ex: crème soda, lemonade, limeade. Etc. whenever I go to Scotland that is the first thing I would want to have. When I’m in Scotland, I would also want to get chocolate…

After reading the work of Jonathan Swift "A Modest Proposal" I could not help feeling sorry for the people who live in these conditions. The farmers who have to meditate for food and children who cannot defend themselves and only suffer from hunger and poverty. It is inevitable to think of solutions that help to hunger, anguish, and poverty. Therefore, Swift poses a solution full of satire, black humor and a bit of mockery about the depressing situation of these families and the society in…

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde of Sir William and Lady Jane Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland-born on the 16th of October of 1854. Wilde was born two years after his eldest brother William and born two years after Wilde was their sister Isola. At age 30 Wilde married Constance Lloyd and later had two boys in which he was a very active and fun father to both. Growing up Wilde excelled exceptionally in academics at Trinity College in Dublin, Magdalen College, and Oxford. Leading him to become a…

the Irish Catholics in Ireland. Some of the laws included preventing the Irish Catholics from holding public office, limiting their rights to education, buying and selling land, bearing arms, serving in the army, obtaining certain jobs, or voting. These weren’t the only things the British took away from the Irish, they also decided to reform Ireland by eliminating the original Gaelic traditions and replacing them with British ways of life. These restrictions and limitations caused the Irish to…

for his proposal about the number of children that should be sold, the projected eating patterns of the consumers, and the children’s weight and price along with specific data about them. Moreover, he argues that nearly 120.000 out of 1.5 million people in the country are children who have no use to the society. The mother would receive sum of three pounds if she would sell her child at the age of twelve. The best solution that the author states is that in the 120.000 children we should keep 20…

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…

more relevance and importance, and to take it serious, like the information in any other pamphlet. The satire is explicit right from the first moment you read it. Just the title and the subtitle, A Modest Proposal for preventing the Children of Poor People from being a Burthen to their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Public, is a clear example of the use of Swift’s satire. His satire can be classified as mordant, and some critics call him a misanthrope and hater of…

wander the streets of the Irish capital today, they would witness signs of urban decay, homelessness, drug abuse and uneducated, impoverished youths floating aimlessly around the inner city, left to fend for themselves by the Irish state. In relating to such, it is still incomprehensible that one of the greatest pieces of satire ever composed, Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’ is still as relevant today in society as it was 285 years ago. Written in 1729, in an era of Irish history where…

Throughout his short story “A Little Cloud,” James Joyce considers the ramifications of remaining sedentary in Dublin through his characters Little Chandler and Ignatius Gallaher. That Little Chandler and Gallaher seem so antithetical, despite their proximity and similar upbringings, invites the reader to question whether Joyce intends to insinuate that success is only possible outside of Dublin, and that ambition and Celtic nationalism are incongruous. Having left Ireland at twenty years old,…

How does Fitz present the moral corruption of the 1920s? Fitzgerald criticizes the moral corruption of 1920s society in in the text ‘The Great Gatsby’, as one of materialism, frivolity, and hedonism. The theme of moral corruption is reflected in numerous ways, which Fitzgerald is inherently criticising through his portrayal of materialism and frivolity in upper class characters of the novel, and the symbolism of location. This links directly to the themes of the American Dream, mass consumerism…