Northern Ireland Assembly

Set in the Easter Rising, Sean O’Casey’s play, The Plough and the Stars, utilizes its setting to discuss the consequences of war and the idea of making a blood sacrifice for Irish independence. Prior its inception, Irish nationalist theatre consisted of works such as Cathleen Ni Houlihan by William Butler Yeats, which evokes a mythological sense of nationalist pride as it uses the figure of Sean-Bhean Bhocht, Poor Old Woman, who needs a young man to help her remove the invaders from her home,…

England vs. Ireland England vs. Ireland Throughout James Joyce’s short story “The Dead” there is a very strong ongoing motif of England vs Ireland. This power struggle is depicted through the use of character interactions, underlying messages, and imagery throughout the story. James Joyce seemed to incorporate a lot of political issues into his work, which seems to be appropriate for the time period it was written. Written in 1914 “The Dead” by James Joyce was a very popular short story for…

My earlier inquiries ported between Biblical Spirituality, Celtic Spirituality, and City Spirituality. An M. Div. mini-thesis investigated the spirituality of the insular Celts (du Toit, 2007). This study focussed on two Celtic liminality sniglets. For the island Celts, thin designated liminality. Thin Spaces (for instance, beaches and mountaintops) and Thin Times (such as dawn and dusk) thinned the veil between the natural and supernatural. Liminality, as an abstract zeitgeber, makes life and…

oppression rapidly increased as the British began to pass laws against the Irish Catholics in Ireland. Some of the laws included preventing the Irish Catholics from holding public office, limiting their rights to education, buying and selling land, bearing arms, serving in the army, obtaining certain jobs, or voting. These weren’t the only things the British took away from the Irish, they also decided to reform Ireland by eliminating the original Gaelic traditions and replacing them with British…

colonial representatives. The fraternal association reinforces through the rituals, ceremonies, initiations, and famous Orange bands worn in council sessions and parades. As St Patrick, a celebration held on 17 March, of a heavenly protector saint in Ireland, it is a cultural and religious heritage by the Irish diaspora. St. Patrick's Day was recognized as Orangeman's Day, is now considered a holiday in Newfoundland. It holds a substantial significance for Canadians and Irish descenders. The…

when the British Empire had conquered Ireland and Scotland. This forced the inhabitants of both countries to give up their customs and traditions to conform to the British Monarchy for almost 1000 years. Both countries continuously fought the Kingdom of England between the early 14th to the 18th century, to liberate their beloved homeland from British reign and regain their independence and identity. A historical grudge still resonates today in Northern Ireland. Political agenda is an important…

As someone who is primarily Scotch Irish, I speak for myself and many other Americans in believing that the First Scottish War of Independence had a large impact in the lives of our ancestors. At the finale of this war was the Battle of Bannockburn, an extraordinary battle and victory for the underdog in numbers, Scotland, a country protecting its land from the massive power that was England. The historical significance of the battle is what keeps it alive to this day in Scotland. This past…

Since the Irish parliament was dissolved in 1801 and Ireland was enveloped in the new United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Ireland) under the Act of Union, many Irishmen and women have at one point or another planned and carried out insurrections against the tyranny of the English. Although the insurrectionists of the Easter Rising of 1916 share the failure of their predecessors, they achieved a lasting impact on the history of Ireland in a way that those that came before never did. On that…

The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory was a play published on March 9th, 1907 at the Abbey Theatre. The theatre being known for Irish literature and drama, the majority of Gregory’s plays were performed there. Different literary critic have slightly different suggestions on what they consider the main theme of this play to be. Two analysis of Lady Gregory and her one-act play that will be presented in this paper are by Elaine T. Partnow and Edward A. Kopper Jr. Two people who can be considered…

questions on English rule in Ireland. Being an educated man, Swift had the incredible ability to influence his audience through satire works that were mostly seen within pamphlets. The best example being Swift’s work, The Modest Proposal, where he wrote, “I am assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London; that a young healthy…