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Essays 271 - 300

'Guests of the Nation' by Frank O'Connor

In six pages this paper examines this text on the Irish independence conflict in terms of its strengths and weaknesses or limitati...

Classical History Preservation and the Role of Ireland

In five pages this paper examines the role of Ireland in preserving classical history in a comparative analysis of How the Irish S...

Cultural Ambivalence in Translations by Irish Playwright Brian Friel

In twelve pages this report discusses the Irish cultural ambivalence as a result of British dominance that is featured in the play...

Fools of Fortune by William Trevor

wish that somehow you might have shared my childhood, for I would love to remember you in the scarlet drawing room, so fragrant in...

American Immigration Paradoxes

will explore the ramifications of these paradoxes, focusing primarily on the experience of Puerto Rican immigrants. Silvia Pedra...

Immigration Experiences

island nation is difficult to overstate (Diner 164). Between 1845 and 1853, Irelands population was diminished by half, going from...

Irish American Influence on American Culture

society, so much so that the Irish ultimately became "more American than the Americans in their appreciation for the blessing of c...

Nineteenth Century Potato Famine of Ireland

also examines some possible solutions. Clarkson points out that other writers, in addition to Grada, have been appalled at the fac...

Irish Employment Law Case Study

the Irish Supreme Court; Henry Denny & Sons Ltd. T/A Kerry Foods v The Minister for Social Welfare [1997] Irish Tax Reports Volume...

A Woman Outsmarting Sherlock Holmes and Its Significance in Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle

the details of case - even to the point of coming off as offensive and brash - was construed out of a need for a more meaty type o...

Examples of Welfare Colonialism

be descended from the original inhabitants of a region prior to the onslaught of arrivals from outsider cultures (Burger, 1988). ...

Dublin According to William Butler Yeats and James Joyce

this work many critics feel that Joyce gave Dublin a feminized gender. They assert that Joyces Dublin corresponds to Claudine Herm...

An Examination of Irish Ornamental Art

can tell that ornamentation is a large part of this model. The Irish often added spirals and curves. One might look at these as co...

Overview of Political Machines and Immigrants

As a matter of a fact, for a time, it did appear that a new age might be dawning for the political machine because of the dire nee...

Oscar Wilde's Western Theatrical Achievements

older brother Willie and younger sister Isola (Kenyon 12). When his beloved sister died at the age of ten, it was a catastrophic ...

Community Relations and Race Issues

others. I grew up in Clarksville and I never left. I have seen families come and go and have seen the racial composite change from...

Romantic Era Poetic Influence of Thomas Moore

biographer. (5) It can also be argued that Moore had an influence on his contemporaries in the Romantic Era. Even though he spen...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries' Emigration from Ireland to the United States

In six pages the immigration to the United States by the Irish is examined in terms of the struggles and achievements that were en...

U.S. Life and Immigrants of Ireland

other systems of employment. Few had major industrial skills or their own trades outside of agricultural skills, and there was no...

1840 to 1900 Immigration of the Irish to America

In five pages this paper examines the Irish immigration during this time period in a consideration of geographic composition and i...

Civil War and Role of Irish Americans

In ten pages this paper examines the Irish Americans' role during the Civil War. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

Ireland and 'Home Rule'

This paper that is 7 pages in length charts the historical evolution of Home Rule and considers whether it was expected by the Bri...

The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor

In five pages this novel is analyzed in terms of its themes and portrayal of pertinent Irish American political and social issues ...

'Orange Order' and Immigration of the Irish

In fourteen pages the Boston immigration of the Irish and the Orange Order discriminatory practices of the mid nineteenth century ...

James Joyce Portrait as a Young Man

In ten pages this paper examines the author's life as it reveals itself in his novel 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' and e...

William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Colonialism, and Irish Identity

In eight pages this paper discusses how colonialism has shaped Irish identity in a comparative analysis of some poems by W.B. Yeat...

Fact or Fiction in the Life and Film Adaptations of Michael Collins

the boundaries of Eire. While Jordans film begins amidst the political turmoil of Ireland in 1916, with Jordan at the center of t...

Overview of Irish Screenplays

In eight pages Frank McGuiness' Someone Who'll Watch Over Me and J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World are examined in the...

Intercultural Communications and Irish Americans

massive prejudices against immigrants and of extraordinary displacements of people from their communities of origin, the question ...

Capitalism and Exploitation of Chinese, Irish, and Italian Immigrants and Native Americans

In seven pages the ways in which capitalism has exploited the Native Americans and discriminated against immigrants most notably t...