Anglo-Irish

Discuss Home Rule as a force of unity and division in Irish political life during the period 1886 to 1921. The home rule question played a prominent part in Irish history for over 40 years. Home Rule, the ideology that a country under a colony would rule itself from home, caused bitter political and social divisions throughout Ireland. Whilst the division between nationalists and unionist became rife, Home Rule unified many that were willing to fight for Ireland’s cause. In Ulster there was a sectarian

facing the dichotomies of Irish culture. At Swim is at its most understated, a text of parodies. O'Brien expertly strings together the many layers of his novel's world to express a slew of critical observations about modernist ideology and realism, as well as exposing a necessary dialogue on the formation and perception of Irish culture. A third major aspect of At Swim-Two-Birds lies closer to O'Brien's own life experience: this is a novel of Irish identity. The Irish identity that O'Brien

Of the nineteenth century.” -Ian Gibson      Irish-American. To some, this term merely designates one of the many ethnic groups which can be found in the United States; but to those who are Irish-American, it represents a people who faced a disaster of mammoth proportions and who managed to survive at great cost. The Great Hunger of 1845 changed, or more often, destroyed the lives of millions of Irish, causing them to seek refuge from poverty and starvation in other, more

new Protestant Domination (History of Ireland). “Home Rule”, the historical movement used to solidify ‘internal autonomy’ for the British Empire. Thanks to a Protestant lawyer, Isaac Butt, an Irish Parliament was established in 1870. After going through the Irish War of Independence and the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922, Ireland became an independent free state. The last conflict in Ireland occurred in the late 1960s, which resolved thirty years later with the Belfast Agreement. Because these

Swift attracts attention to the cruel mistreatment of the impoverished class of Ireland through the use of his absurd proposal, his tone, and also his insincerity. Swift suggests that Irish women should sell their children as food and other necessities to the rich populace in order to benefit the economy and fight the problem of overpopulation. To specify, Swift proposes if the children are sold, there would be many more utilizations of the children instead of having to survive on the streets scraping

There are major impediments to this approach. 	The Proposer is "clearly in Ireland, addressing an Irish audience with an account of circumstances which are as real as they are horrible." (Rosenheim 204) England’s consumption of Ireland is mentioned expressly, but in a single clause which certainly does not inform but transiently exploits the

perceived by many to be the “golden era” was undermined by several bleak issues. Irish society was still very much subservient to the Catholic Church during this period, while the late 1960’s also marked the beginnings of “The Troubles” as we know them today, a period of major civil unrest in Northern Ireland which lasted for many years following and claimed the lives of many innocent people. (3) A notable feature of Irish society in the 1960’s was economic expansion. There was a prevalent perception

English, T. J. Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish-American Gangster. New York: Regan, 2006, 442 p.p Throughout his career T.J English has written five books and a multitude of articles for the LA Times, The New York Times, Playboy, and a variety of other magazines and newspapers. All of his books (The Westies, Born to Kill, Havana Nocturne, and The Savage City) and articles cover some aspect of the criminal world, whether it be the criminal themselves, or the act that they carry out. T

Furthering the impression of Gypsy’s liminality is the sense that her identity is withheld. Her clothes are another indicator of how her identity has been stripped in the same way her clothes are removed, “Holding her clothes about her body she stepped to the corner of the lodge and looked across at the blazing house” (32). Clothes are an indicator of class, personality and therefore identity. By merely holding them “about her body” she bears no identity. Later in the text, she is stripped of a voice

deals with the ways in which the consciousness of an entire culture is fractured by the transcription of one landscape (Gaelic, classical and traditional) for another (Anglo-Saxon, progressive and