Celtic Tiger - The famine
"The famine" number of the Celtic Tiger show symbolizes the struggle and the suffering of the Irish during the imposition of the corn law.
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The Easter Rising
The Easter Rising ( Irish : Éirí Amach na Cásca) was a rebellion staged in Ireland in Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was an attempt by militant Irish republicans to win independence from Britain by force of arms. It was the most significant uprising in...
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James Larkin
THE BALLAD OF JAMES LARKIN (Donagh MacDonagh) In Dublin City in 1913 the boss was rich and the poor were slaves The women working, the children starving, then on came Larkin like a mighty wave The workmen cringed when the boss man thundered, seventy hours...
Memories...
Qui n'a jamais appris ce ce poème en forme de limerick extrait d'A little pretty pocket-book de John Newbery? Hickory Dickory Dock The mouse ran up the clock The clock struck one The mouse ran down Hickory Dickory Dock
Eveline, James Joyce
SHE sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired. Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home;...
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An Image from a Past Life
He. Never until this night have I been stirred. The elaborate star-light has thrown reflections On the dark stream, Till all the eddies gleam; And thereupon there comes that scream From terrified, invisible beast or bird: Image of poignant recollection....
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the major figure of the Anglo-Irish revival in poetry and literature at the turn of the century. Though he wrote quite a number of plays, such as The Countess Cathleen (1892) or The Hour Glass and Others Plays (1903),...