Although there are parallels between Irish and Welsh sagas of elopement‚ the powerful self confident women depicted in these narratives do not represent the real women of Medieval Ireland and Wales. Proinsias Mac Cana has suggested that the dominant roles of Deirdre and Gráinne in their respective tales (Longes mac nUislenn and Toruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne) are ‘literary variations on the exemplar of the sovereignty goddess’ (Doan‚ 1985: 90). Bitel (1996: 2) asserts that Celticists have been
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In the book Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work In Essex County‚ Massachusetts‚ 1630–1850‚ Daniel Vickers explores the lives of both farmers and fisherman‚ both very popular professions in New England during the early colonial period. By telling two separate stories of the farmers and fisherman of the region‚ specifically telling the story of Essex County‚ Massachusetts‚ Vickers is able to bridge the gap of knowledge through primary source material left behind by settlers in the region as
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"Welsh Landscape" is written by R.S Thomas. He was a Welsh traditionalist born in 1913 and he died in 2000. He has strong views and lives in the past thinking of Wales of having no present or future. The poem consists of just one stanza. The main theme of this poem is war imagery‚ the words that suggest this are "ambush"‚ "spilled blood"‚ "wild"‚ "strife"‚ "strung"‚ "sped arrows"‚ "cries"‚ "fields"‚ "corners" and "carcass". He describes Wales to have "spilled blood" which describes past battles
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landscape and the hard lives of the peasant farmers became the main themes of his poems. By analysing these aspects of Thomas’s poetry this essay will examine how he makes the Welsh countryside and its inhabitants vivid to the reader. Thomas’s poem “The Hill Farmer Speaks” demonstrates inextricable link between the Welsh hill farmer‚ nature‚ his land and his animals. The hill farmer holds a special bond with his animals for which he cares ’year after year’. The hill farmer is used by Thomas as
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Merchant Services in Irvine‚ Surveys Suggest Credit Cards Are the Preferred Method of Payment. 1888PressRelease - Gathered from reputable sources and surveys‚ Merchant Services has collected a series of statistics that prove that not only is cash no longer king‚ but it might just cease to be a player in the new economy at all. In the year 2014‚ it’s hard to believe that not every business accepts credit or debit card payments. The obvious trend in the past decade has been for customers
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R.S. Thomas was born in Cardiff in 1913 and became the rector of Manafon church in 1942. He was a rector there for twelve years and during that time‚ he taught himself the Welsh language so he could better understand and relate to the local people. At first sight‚ his poetry is based around a narrow range of subjects: the Welsh people and landscape‚ but the emotional range of his poetry is vast and it tends to be universalised. The three main poems I am going to write about are Evans‚ Lore‚ and Cynddylan
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Trainspotting – Yasmin Allen Trainspotting is a phonetically written novel by Irvine Welsh. The Scottish heroin addict battles his way through the story to kick his addiction. The captivating story of the random events that occur during a critical time in a group of Scottish junkies’ lives. Irvine Welsh illustrates the confusion and anger many heroin addicts are subjected to and what happens once they try to quit. The story is based around Mark Renton‚ an ordinary twenty-two year old who
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Welsh uses structure to show juxtaposition of the different characters and the different position of the narratives. One way that Welsh expresses struggle for identity is through the use of gender roles. “The rest make whooping noises and dae a drum roll on the table. Ah complete the order feeling shattered and debased and deport to the kitchen.” At this point in the book the character Kelly is working as a waitress in an Edinburgh restaurant. Some male costumers treat her with disrespect and she
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(Blackwell Publishing‚ 2011)‚ Blackwell Reference Online. 24 August 2011 3 Winton‚ Tim ‘Aquifer’‚ in The Best Australian Stories‚ ed. Peter Craven (Melbourne: Black Inc. 2001)‚ pp. 248-262 4Welsh‚ Irvine ‘A Fault on the Line’‚ in Reheated Cabbage (London‚ Jonathan Cape‚ 2009)‚ pp.1-10 5Morace‚ Robert. ‘Welsh‚ Irvine.’ The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction ed. Shaffer‚ Brian W. (Blackwell Publishing‚ 2011). Blackwell Reference Online. 24 August 2011 6Enright‚ Anne ‘Until the Girl Died’‚ in Taking
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Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist and playwright author. He is well known for his best selling novel Trainspotting. He had adapted many of his books into screenplays and movies. Irvine Welsh was born in 1958 in the city of Edinburgh‚ Scotland. His father worked as a docker until his health made him work as a carpet salesman and his mother worked as a waitress. Where he was growing up‚ he lived in an area called Leith. The area was known for its ports and poverty in the 1980s. Welsh left Ainslie
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