When doing the assignment about the Irish/Dublin famine it accrued to me that we don’t know what the reality of … More
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Aquinas and Aristotle in Portrait of the Artist
I have decided to write my paper on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The basic goal of … More
A Protestant Minority in a Catholic Majority
For the final paper, I will be researching the Protestant-Catholic religious divisions within Ireland and the dynamics between a Catholic … More
The Intersection of Irish Nationalism and Celtic Literary Revival in the Works of Joyce and Yeats
One thing which struck me out of our many class discussions was the use of mythology as a theme within … More
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 … More
Language and Identity
A theme that has stood out to me throughout this quarter – probably because I am taking an anthropology class … More
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 … More
Galway, Gretta, and Gabriel
In Joyce’s “The Dead,” Galway is mentioned as the hometown of Gabriel’s wife, Gretta. Throughout the story, this place increasingly … More
A Tale of Two Cities: Portrayals of London and Dublin in “A Little Cloud”
As I was reading this week, I was very interested in the way that the inhabitants of Dublin in Dubliners … More
A Moment of Introspection
I finished reading “The Dead” four days ago, and the concluding passage has not left my mind since: “Generous tears … More
