(slide 1) Hello everyone I’m ….. we are gonna talk about an interesting topic which is Decolonization in Yeats’ poems The first thing that comes to our mind after hearing Yeats’ name is the word decolonization Before we’re gonna talk about him ‚ there’re some details about the Irish literature in general . Also‚ in our presentation we selected the important points because all these points if we take them individually we’ll not finish (slide 2) So‚ If you look at this sentence ‚ the main
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Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal is a short satirical literary work‚ in which Swift shows dissatisfaction with the political situation in Ireland during the Age of Rationalism. In this period of time‚ Ireland was in a great poverty and was being abused by the English and Swift wrote this piece in order to emphasize the terrible situation. He uses a cold‚ very objective tone to stress the absurdity of his proposal. As for the title‚ that is a big irony straight from the beginning‚ since Swift’s
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Akenson argued that all immigrants from Ireland‚ both Catholic and Protestant‚ possessed roughly the same occupational an economic profiles. His view was that the poorest immigrants headed for Britain while those with more resources ventured to destinations in America‚ Canada and even Australia
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uses satire in the essay and the title itself‚ to make a point about the English government allowing the citizens of Ireland to starve to death. The proposal that he makes is by no means “modest‚” hence the sarcastic edge surrounding the title. The essay was written in 1729 and during that time‚ the entire country of Ireland was under English rule‚ unlike today where only Northern Ireland remains under English rule. During this time‚ the Irish people were without work‚ without food‚ and without proper
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way to catch their attention was to write the essay “A Modest Proposal”. Swift used satire in his essay to inform people of Ireland how high poverty‚ hunger‚ and death rates were not getting any help from the government. Swift was trying to deliver a message to the people of Ireland. There was so many men and women who could not support their child. Also people from Ireland were starving because of crop failure.
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------------------------------------------------- Top of Form * Yes * No Bottom of Form View Results Home / About the GAA / Our Games / Hurling Hurling Hurling is believed to be the world’s oldest field game. When the Celts came to Ireland as the last ice age was receding‚ they brought with them a unique culture‚ their own language‚ music‚ script and unique pastimes. One of these pastimes was a game now called hurling. It features in Irish folklore to illustrate the deeds of heroic
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Swift: A Modest Proposal Jonathon Swift’s A Modest Proposal is a parody on the economic situation of the society in which he attempts to “find out a fair‚ cheap and easy method” (Swift) for the children in poverty to be put to good use for good of Ireland. This is seen right away in the full title of the pamphlet‚ “A Modern Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to their Parents‚ or the County‚ and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.” The reader begins to realize
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matter of poverty‚ but “The Rape of the Lock" takes a trivial matter and dramatizes it in order to solve a more significant underlying issue. The former of the two texts is meant to point out the wealthy class’s lack of sympathy for the poor people of Ireland. In comparison to that‚ the latter of the texts is meant to show how the wealthy class gets caught up in unimportant cases. This comparison is significant because firstly‚ the two authors lives overlapped‚ meaning they lived in similar societies due
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October xx‚ 20xx The US-Ireland Alliance 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue‚ NW‚ 12th Floor Washington‚ D.C. 20006 To La Prensa Foundation Scholarship Selection Committee: I am writing a letter on behalf of Mr. Jose J Flores Contreras‚ an Business Administration student at SAC/ UTSA who is applying for La Prensa Foundation Scholarship . To get straight to the point‚ Jose is‚ without a doubt‚ one of the strongest person I have had the pleasure of meet at Immaculate Heart ofMmary Church
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described in the novel is the religion. As Stephen said‚ “I am the servant of two masters‚ […] an English and an Italian” (Joyce 19). Here‚ the Italian master refers to the Roman catholic church. During the 20th century‚ the unstable political state in Ireland allowed Roman Catholics’ power to pervade‚ becoming a driving force in Irish politics and a restriction of people’s thoughts. The metaphor Joyce uses in this quotation compares Irish citizens to servants‚ and Roman Catholics to the master. This metaphor
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