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Eamon de Valera and Irish Politics

run in Ireland. Perhaps it was his earliest experiences in America that led to his stubborn refusal to accept the Irish political ...

Snow in August by Pete Hamill and Friendship Bonds

In five pages this paper examines the friendship between Rabbi Hirsch and a young Irish boy named Michael as described in this tex...

Postmodern Playwright Marina Carr

theatrical works - old and new. One of those "new" Irish playwrights is Marina Carr (1964 -- ). Irish Invasion of Theater...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

Ireland's Women's Suffrage Movement

In ten pages this paper examines Irish women's suffrage movement from an historical perspective and includes strategies and major ...

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 ...

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...

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...

The Tribute to Endurance that is Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes

In five pages the book in which McCourt recounts his Irish childhood of poverty is examined within the context of Angela, the indo...

Irish War of Independence Leader Michael Collins

In twenty pages this research leader examines Michael Collins's life and charismatic leadership that would both flourish and be cu...

Differing Perspectives of Irish Americans and African Americans

A research paper that consists of fifteen pages discusses why Irish Americans and African Americans have differing views regarding...

Comparative Analysis of Terrorist Organizations

In twelve pages the terrorist organizations Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Sendero Luminoso, the ETA, and the ...

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...

'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 ...

Intercultural Communications and Irish Americans

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Examples of Welfare Colonialism

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