Northern Ireland Assembly

Although he first proclaimed to be from Ireland, he later changed his identity and boasted that he is from Formosa, where almost no one had a single piece of knowledge about its culture, language, and ways of life. Although he surely had a look that did not resemble that of an Asian man but that…

During the Neoclassicism movement, writers immensely based their work on those of ancient Rome and Greek, emulating what they saw as restriction, reasoning, and dignity of classical literature. Jonathan Swift’s satirical essay, “A Modest Proposal” draws attention to Ireland’s problems by advising the poor Irish people to sell their children as food to decrease poverty and overpopulation. Fanny Burney’s diary, An Encounter with “King George III” recounts an undesirable meeting with the king, and…

The long June nightfall blurred into night. Dublin lay wrapped in haziness yet for the diminish light of the moon that shone through warm mists, giving a pale light a role as of moving toward sunrise over the avenues and the dull waters of the Liffey. Around the ambushed Four Courts the overwhelming weapons thundered. All over through the city, assault rifles and rifles ended the hush of the night, uncontrollably, similar to pooches yapping on solitary ranches. Republicans and Free Staters were…

Home. A home is not always a building, sometimes it is a person or a feeling that makes a person feel warmth within themselves. Toni Morrison’s (Beloved) uses plot and style to demonstrate to us that a place we might call a house is no the same place where we might feel at home. Throughout the life story of Sethe in the book Beloved, Morrison demonstrates how it is that even if anyone has lived in the same place for many years it may never feel like home but just a house. In the beginning…

In his satirical piece, A Modest Proposal, Dr. Jonathon Swift’s use of pathos demonstrates that civil neglect has debilitating effects on the poor in Ireland. Swift uses reduction to convey the degraded value of human life. Swift proposes that “the skin [of a child...] will make admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen” (I. 94-96). Since poor children are an eyesore to the upper class in the streets begging for food and money, Swift proposes that these children should be…

political policies of English government. Swift was born in Ireland and also he was born of English parents, but he was anxious to distance from English government and Ireland because here swift uses the assumed voice of the economist, metaphors and other ironic technique to devastating effect. In this essay author does blame on the politicians, economist and the English government because they were the fault for the poverty in Ireland. A Modest Proposal is consider as satire in world literature…

Jonathan Swift’s addressing a serious issue that is affecting hundreds of thousand of children in Ireland. Due to increase in taxes and the Potato Famine a great number of children are starving, along with all the people who are living in poverty. Jonathan Swift wanted to bring attention to this important topic, and he decided that instead of writing seriously about this problem, he would use satire and black humor. It most have been very risky for Swift to write an essay such as this one,…

In this writing, Jonathan Swift expresses his belief that the children of poor women should be sold and eaten. He is, of course, using this writing as a satire and is to not be taken seriously. He meant to bring light to all of the poverty in Ireland. The literary devices of ethos, pathos, and logos can be seen throughout the essay. Ethos, the establishment of credibility of the author, can be seen when he says “having turned my thoughts for many years upon this important subject”.…

It was a day like any other day so the three brothers started to build their houses and the firstlittle pig built his house out of straw so he could have more time to play.The second little pig did the same except he builthis house out of tree branches or logs and went to play with his brother. The third little pig was smarterand a hard worker so he built his house out of bricks.The next day was pretty much the same but around lunch time the two little pigs whereplaying outside when all of a…

differences between Welsh, Scottish and Breton music and music making. What effect do you think Irish music has had on each of the other musical cultures? Celtic music tends to be defined as encompassing the traditional music of Celtic countries, namely Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Brittany, as well as Galicia and other areas. Since each country has gone through its unique history, there are differences in between one culture to another, but similarities are also present. Elements include…