Republic of Ireland

James Joyce’s Dubliners, a collection of short stories, examines Irish life in the late nineteeth century and early twentieth century through the use of complex characters and multifacteted plots. Three of these stories, “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” “A Mother,” and “Grace,” focuse exclusively on public life. In Joyce’s eyes, public life in Dublin was run by politics, art, and religion. While each of these stories takes on a different subtopic of public life, they share an overarching theme.…

As well as religious differences, the new immigrants faced stereotypes that ‘Clashed’ with Protestant American values. These stereotypes were highlighted to put down the Irish immigrant community and were created out of fear because these Irish immigrants challenged for job openings. The Irish immigrants were stereotyped as barbaric, unskilled, impoverished and unpolished. Anti-Irish cartoons for magazines such as Harper's Weekly featured cartoons by Thomas Nast and depicted Irish immigrants as…

The Impact of Irish immigrants on the U.S. Did you know that Irish immigrants consisted of half of all immigrants who came to America looking for better opportunity? They have impacted the U.S in all different types of areas. These immigrants strongly participated in the Civil war, brought many important cultural changes, and more man power to increase construction across America. Without the Irish immigrants America wouldn’t be what it is today. In fact they helped the U.S. develop as a country…

We know this because he wanted to inform us on the history of St. Patrick and St. Patrick’s Day. During the speech, he spent the first thirty minutes discussing the life of St. Patrick and his journeys. Some of these include, when he was taken to Ireland at the age of sixteen, the meaning behind the clover and how he used it to show God the Father, God the Son,…

in a stunning case of irony a fictional comic on the “welfare queen” by the onion's fake editorial artist “kelly” has been taken up by the very source of its satire; anti-welfare peddlers. rightfully so, the originally over the top cartoon has now become a representation of all that conservative republicans find wrong with social welfare. However, it goes beyond that,appearing at first like any american editorial cartoon with its simple lines with blatant labels on benign seeming personal…

great ideas to solve social issues such as abortion, overpopulation, and poverty. Throughout his essay, Swift is able to convey his point through sarcastic suggestion of the cannibalism of children as the answer to the social and economic issues that Ireland faces, while still providing facts about the matters at hand. In the beginning of his essay, it is unclear to the readers whether or not his proposal is literal. However, as the essay progresses, we are able to differentiate when Swift is…

Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal certainly carries a very strong impact and is a powerful piece of writing that can leave an audience stunned. It is a satirical narrative, about overpopulation and famines in Ireland, and Swift’s opinion on what can be done to solve it. The “proposal” he had in mind was that people simply fatten up and eat the children, because he believes that they serve no purpose and in actuality are merely contributing to the complication at hand. Swift also uses…

wrote in 1729, and is a famous work of the satire genre. In this short story, Swift is addressing the great famine that is threatening the people of Ireland, due to English landlords taking away too much money away from the Irish people, which in turn takes away funds to buy food. Swift is one of the few who want to stand up and and tell the people of Ireland to rise against their landlords. But knowing his fellow Irish country people who indeed won’t listen to his problem solving idea of…

What shall Ireland do during such a crisis in their economy? Everyone isn’t rich nor can they become rich overnight. Well this rich man wants to help Ireland as it faces poverty. Women are having children faster than they can feed them. This rich man believes he has the solution to the Irelands financial crisis. He thinks that Cannibalism is a way of bringing a circulation of money within the country. It will cause a continuation of money within the country for goods and food. The selling…

Far and Away, written and directed by Ron Howard is an extremely accurate historical film. The film begins to tell the tale of Joseph Donnelly and Shannon Christie. Their journey went from Ireland to boston and the Oklahoma territory. Shannon and Joseph did not have much of a relationship at the beginning. They delve deeper and deeper into the movie and all of their experiences spark the attraction to one another. This creates an additional interesting theme to the film’s portrayal of the life…