Kevin Matthews May 12‚ 2013 ENGL 224 Language in Translations Translations is a three-act play written by Brian Friel set in the small town of Baile Beag‚ a fictional Donegal village in Ireland. The play deals with issues ranging from language and communication barriers to Irish history and cultural imperialism by the English. The clash of cultures coupled with misunderstanding and misinterpretations leads to chaos within the small town. The difficulty of trying to communicate without an effective
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At the time of writing Murmuring Judges‚ the whole of Britain was under the terrifying cloud of the IRA. With bombings going off in both England and Ireland‚ people on both sides feared for their lives. In the eyes of most English people‚ the Irish were seen as terrorists or‚ at the very least‚ co-conspirators. Therefore‚ Hare saw it as crucial that he set the victim of the play as an Irishman‚ with the middle-England judiciary being the abusers. As we see in Act 1 Scene 4‚ Gerard McKinnon is being
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the reader on the critical state of Ireland‚ at that time. In the essay‚ Swift suggests that the poor should sell their children to the rich so that they can “contribute to the feeding‚ and partly to the clothing‚ of many thousands.” Swift doesn’t simply want the poor to pay attention but wants to point his chagrin towards the politicians as well as the catholic citizens. Swift wrote his essay during a time where there was political and religious turmoil in Ireland‚ using sarcasm and extreme exaggeration
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“Was violence the main reason for Irish independence 1801-1922?” Violence has always been a part of Ireland‚ fuelled by religion‚ politics and nationalism. While it did play a significant role in Ireland being granted independence at the end of 1922‚ it was the motives behind the violence that arguably had more of an impact. Ireland entered the century with violence in the county of Wicklow‚ with prisoners still being shipped to Austrailia. Due to the violence the Irish Parlement and the British
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the refrains‚ Yeats mentions John O’Leary‚ who was an Irish separatist ’of a different kind’. His political stance was much less self-interested‚ compared with many of Yeats’ contemporaries‚ as he instead focused on getting the greatest good for Ireland. It is clear through the poem‚ Yeats admires this and wishes for a return to the less egotistical and self-driven politics of a bygone era. [3] Yeats does‚ however‚ appear to question whether these great historical figures‚ whom he admired and previously
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Irish Nationalism: The Fight for Self-Government Since the late twentieth century‚ Ireland has been subject to varying types of English rule. There has been much debate on the degree of English rule in Ireland‚ but the call for a united Ireland was very popular among many Irishmen. Nationalistic feelings in Ireland saw a steady growth in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with many different movements looking to achieve Irish self-government. These nationalistic movements can be
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story. In ‘ The Dead’ there are many references of snow ‚ the imagery of snow keeps appearing‚ it starts off with only a small patch (quote)‚ till it slowly spreads and in the end ‚ it became so big that it ends with ‘ snow covering the whole of Ireland’. I think that the accumulation of snow has several symbolism and several meanings. The small patch of snow at the beginning represents the inner doubts and misunderstanding that Gabriel has always had for his wife ‚ Gretta. . Because it’s during
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disturbances in Ireland during the 20th century a result of the actions of militant Republican organisation? This essay will show the extent to which the actions of Republican organisation caused violent in Ireland during 19000 and 2000. There will be shown several factors of the causes such as Easter Rising in 1916 and Economic failures in Ireland. All the factors that would be discussed are related to the outbreak of the republican organisation. The ’Troubles’ broke out in Northern Ireland in 1969.
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Governing Ireland 1914-1917 * Ireland ruled directly from London – Irish Politicians sit in the Parliament at Westminster (1800 Act of Union) * Lord Lieutenant – King’s representative in Ireland * Chief Secretary – Parliament’s representative in Ireland * Nationalists & Unionists are the TWO main political groups in the country. Political Groups in Ireland (1914) The Nationalists – About 3 million Irish people – most of them Catholic – believed that Ireland should be
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Yeats believed that art and politics were intrinsically linked and used his writing to express his attitudes toward Irish politics‚ as well as to educate his readers about Irish cultural history. From an early age‚ Yeats felt a deep connection to Ireland and his national identity‚ and he thought that British rule negatively impacted Irish politics and social life. His early compilation of folklore sought to teach a literary history that had been suppressed by British rule‚ and his early poems were
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