Gabriel Convoy is the epitome of the upper-middle class unionist in the early Irish 20th century – he’s well educated,…
Juno and the Matriarchy
My research paper will be based on the feminist overtones of Juno and the Paycock by Sean O’Casey. My research…
Emigration and “Eveline”
IMAGE: ‘Emigrants Leave Ireland’, engraving by Henry Doyle (1827–1892), from Mary Frances Cusack’s Illustrated History of Ireland, 1868. For my final…
Poverty During A Civil War
The research topic I have chosen for my final paper is about the Irish Civil War, which occurred during the…
Depths of Mrs. Sinico’s Death
My research topic is focusing on the role of the temperance movement in Dublin society around the early 1900s and…
Women as National and Mythological Resources
In Eavan Boland’s autobiography, Object Lessons, she mulls deeply over women’s portrayal in Irish literature, remarking that the female identity…
Language and Identity
A theme that has stood out to me throughout this quarter – probably because I am taking an anthropology class…
Poverty and the Paycock
I am planning to focus my final paper on poverty in Dublin and how it is portrayed through Juno and…
World War One and Irish Identity
For my final paper I am planning to focus on the cultural impact of World War One on Irish consciousness…
The Intersection of Life and Death
Even as the quarter comes to a close, I still find myself intrigued by the explorations and discoveries from Week…
