Most teenagers have experienced that odd moment when their parents know what they are doing‚ even though they haven’t told them; and they certainly don’t like being compared to their parents. Young people consider themselves as individuals who have nothing in common with their parents – but in fact they might have more in common with their elders than they think. The latter might be the case for the main character in Maggie O’Farrell’s short story “The Problem with Oliver”‚ Fionnuala‚ who is a perfect
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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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241 26 February 2011 Symbolism Symbolism is a powerful tool used by people every day to force people to look past the obvious and find the deeper meaning. Symbolism is used by authors‚ musicians‚ priests‚ and many others. James Joyce‚ a well-known Irish author‚ uses symbolism repeatedly throughout his collection of short stories published in 1916. In these stories‚ titled Dubliners‚ Joyce uses symbolism not only to enhance the stories‚ but to also show the hidden‚ underlying message of each story
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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
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Protestant Church‚ thereby sowing the seeds for centuries of religious conflict in Ireland. They extinguished the "Kildare Supremacy" and established the principle that the King of England automatically became King of Ireland. They partially destroyed Irish culture through an "anglicization" program that imposed England ’s language‚ laws‚ culture and religion on Ireland; and they "re-conquered" Ireland by defeating the Gaelic lords at Kinsale‚ thereby extinguishing the old Gaelic order and paving the
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It seems like there is no pot of gold for the Irish. In both “A Modest Proposal”‚ written by Jonathan Swift‚ and Angela’s Ashes‚ written by Frank McCourt‚ Ireland is portrayed as the land of the poor. Although they were from a different time period and age when they wrote their piece‚ they both touch on the same subject and seem to be sympathetic towards it. When describing the poor‚ Swift and McCourt each had their own description. Swift describes‚ not himself‚ but other people he saw. For
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tells the story of a young‚ Irish Catholic boy during the 1930’s and early 1940’s. Frank’s memory of his impoverished childhood is difficult to accept‚ however‚ he injects a sense of devilish humor into his biography. He creates a story where the readers watch him grow beyond all odds and live through the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. "People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years‚ but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty‚ the shiftless
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desire to possess the courage his heroes did. Above all‚ I can identify with his wish for an ideal world. Quite frankly‚ Yeats was a bitter‚ arrogant and cynical man who‚ despite his riches and comfortable lifestyle‚ never seemed happy. An Anglo-Irish descendant‚ he spent part of his childhood in England‚ before returning to Dublin for the later part of his education. He was greatly influenced by Maud Gonne‚ his unrequited lover‚ and Lady Augusta Gregory‚ an old friend of his. Yeats spent his life
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“Punishment” “Punishment‚” a poem written by Irish author Seamus Heaney‚ speaks of the discovery of the body of a young bog girl‚ who as realized later in the poem‚ was punished for being an “adulteress.” (23) On closer inspection and as the poem shifts from past to present the faith of the bog girl is compared with the faith of another woman in more recent violent times‚ namely The Troubles in Northern Ireland. In this poem Heaney thus comments‚ through the use of literary devices such as enjambment
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In The Modest Proposal published in 1729 by Dr. Jonathan Swift‚ he feels pity for the Irish in the sense that they have destroyed themselves by having children who cannot contribute to society. For example‚ Swift proposes that the Anglo-Irish should pity those when “ they see the streets‚ the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex‚ followed by three‚ four‚ or six children‚ all in rags.” The purpose for this was to show how children and mothers are unable to survive as men who
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