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James Joyce is widely considered to be one of the best authors of the 20th century. One of James Joyce’s most celebrated short stories is “Eveline.” This short story explores the theme of order and hazard and takes a critical look at life in Dublin, Ireland in the early 20th century. Furthermore, the themes that underlie “Eveline” were not only relevant for the time the story was wrote in, but are just as relevant today. The major theme explored in “Eveline” is the idea of order and hazard

Natural Empathy: Duty and Responsibility in "Guests of the Nation" Frank O'Connor uses character surnames in his story "Guests of the Nation" to help develop the characters of the English and Irish soldiers. The characters engage in a struggle between hidden powers of empathy and duty, and O'Connor displays their first-person point of view about the irony of war similar to Thomas Hardy's poem, "The Man He Killed": Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met

Protestantism. And the deeply faithful Irish have always felt that they were looked down upon by the British for refusing to practice their form of

teacher employed by the Education Committee after she had failed a test, intended to asses her knowledge of the Irish language. Minister’s

“nationalism is when hate for people other than your own comes first,” by this definition turning points in Irish Nationalism can be seen not as what changed as in regards love for Ireland, but what changed hatred for the English withinin Ireland. There are numerous significant turning points in Irish Nationalism; it could be argued that The Great Famine is the largest turning point in Irish Nationalism as it encouraged independence through means of violence as well as cementing a deep-rooted hatred

People undertake missions for different purposes and it's impossible to know what drives them to do it. To undertake missions, you need to be willing to take risks and also have the courage to do it. For example, Aengus was determined to find his true love, Ernesto was trying to fit into the American culture, and Farah Ahmedi climbed a mountain with a prosthetic leg to seek a better life. These three characters were motivated by the thought of a better future. All three individuals shared the ability

questioning the assumption that any two people can share the same reality; ideas can be translated between cultures without necessarily being altered. The play offers a parable about the fate of a parochial attitude for those who are not familiar with Irish history. Brain Friel is considered to be “concerned with the nuances of both personal and cultural-national identity and its relation to colonial dispossession, issues of home, language, tradition…’ (Bertha 2006, 154). Friel writes a story of how one

for nearly a decade. My brother influenced me into playing the fiddle; the musicians and the sounds it produced amazed me. By the time I was nine I had chose to pursue a path in music, my mother supported this and signed me up for lessons at the Irish American Heritage Center. I remember walking into room 302 for the first time. On the center of the ceiling is a coke stain, I’m guessing from children before us, and inside was an old man in his seventies who I would come to respect and question as

Near the turn of the twentieth century, Ireland had a crisis of identity. In 1890, the most influential Irish Nationalist politician and champion of home rule, Charles Stewart Parnell, was denounced by the Catholic Church of Ireland over the Divorce Crisis, something the church saw as an immoral affair. The issue of Parnell’s morality split the Irish public’s opinion on what was fundamentally most important: Religion or State Freedom. The political progress that was made towards a freer Ireland came

starving or dealing with political turmoil. Around 7 million people migrated to America from 1820-1870. One-third of this new population was Irish and one-third was German. Around 1845 in Ireland, a potato famine struck and caused millions of Irish people to starve. Because of this, over 1.25 million Irish moved to the United States to escape it. The Irish immigrants were mostly poor and unskilled, while the immigrants from Germany were skilled laborers and professionals who came from various economic