Ireland Essays

To understand the failure of the 1798 rebellion we need to consider the nature of Irish society prior to the rebellion. The upheavals of the 1600s resulted in the confiscation of almost all land owned by Catholics.[1, 2] The Penal Laws aimed at the Catholic majority and the dissenters meant …

William Butler Yeats’s poems “Easter 1916” and “The Second Coming” each portray the theme of rebellion. However, rebellion is not always heroic and these two poems clash with one another to prove this point. “Easter 1916” contains text which presents rebellion as a positive action; whereas, “The Second Coming” makes …

On a regular day in Ireland on January 30th, 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland everything was turned upside down during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights movement. Through this it changed the way people looked at their rights as a human being. When something like this happens …

Cathleen Ni Houlihan is a play written by William Butler Yeats. The setting of Cathleen Ni Houlihan is Killala. Killala is a small village, which located in Ballina, Ireland. It is an important place in Irish history. Before Ireland gained independence from Britain through the Irish War of Independence in …

As part of this assignment I will write about the historical developments of the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) sector in Ireland, History of ECCE provision in Ireland Pre-school education did not really exist in Ireland apart from a few exceptions until the 1980s and 1990s. This was largely …

Swan (2000) described special needs education in Ireland in three phases, the neglect and denial, the special needs school and the integration or inclusion. The national Education System was first set up in 1831 making it compulsory for all children from age six to fourteen. By 1892 children had to …

In Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, the tone of a Juvenalian satire is evident in its text. Swift uses the title of his essay to begin his perfect example of a Juvenalian satire. Swift gives a moral justification to the dehumanization of the Irish and attempts to provide ‘logical’ solutions …

The central theme in ‘Translations’ is language, with associations between people who do not speak the same language or same objectives. It is a play about alienation, relationships and a small community and its limitations, it is about love and the political problems between the English and the Irish. The …

Martin Luther King jr. and Jonathan Swift, both persuasive writers and speakers, write for a very similar purpose; they wish to ‘free the oppressed.’ It is interesting that they induce their audience in practically opposite ways. King condemns the oppressors, spreading the message of hope to the oppressed while Swift …

Executive Summary In early 1990, Warner-Lambert Ireland planned to launch an innovative new product named Niconil, which was made for people who would like to quit smoking. Niconil would be the first patch-type product in the smoking cessation market in Ireland. While existing smoking cessation products of the other companies …