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The Emerald Isle

The Emerald Isle. The shamrock. The Celtic Harp. Music …fiddle , drums , accordion…. Free space for your pictures…. IRELAND TODAY. IRELAND TODAY. IRELAND TODAY - GOVERNMENT. EIRE = REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Capital: DUBLIN President (7 years) : Michael D. Higgins (since 2011)

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The Emerald Isle

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  1. The Emerald Isle

  2. The shamrock

  3. The CelticHarp

  4. Music…fiddle, drums, accordion…

  5. Free spaceforyourpictures…

  6. IRELAND TODAY

  7. IRELAND TODAY

  8. IRELAND TODAY - GOVERNMENT EIRE = REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Capital: DUBLIN • President (7 years) : Michael D. Higgins (since 2011) • Parliament: Senate + House of Representatives = Dail • (elected by universal suffrage every 5 years) NORTHERN IRELAND (UK) Capital: BELFAST

  9. IRELAND TODAY - ECONOMY • AGRICULTURE: cattle , dairy farming, fishing (smoked salmon, oysters, mussels, cod….), potatoes, racehorses • FOOD PROCESSING and drinks: soda bread, stews, Guinness beer, whiskey, artisan cheeses, fruit and potato cakes • MANUFACTURING: computer technology, metal, engineering , crystal, tweed • TOURISM

  10. THE CELTIC TIGER • 1995-2007: rapid economic growth • 2009: end of economic boom • Collapse of banking system • Property bubble burst • Fewer US investments

  11. THE IRISH QUESTION

  12. THE IRISH QUESTION

  13. Ireland – XIX century

  14. Irish Independence

  15. THE IRISH QUESTION • 1937 : EIRE left the Commonwealth • 1949: Republic of Ireland

  16. ULSTER AND “THE TROUBLES”

  17. Ireland : TowardsPeace

  18. Ireland : TowardsPeace

  19. Some Famous Irish Writers(dealing with the Irish question) • Johnathan Swift • Oscal Wilde • William Butler Yeats • James Joyce • Samuel Beckett • Frank McCourt • Roddy Doyle

  20. Johnathan SWIFT (1667-1745), Protestant Dubliner 1729: A Modest Proposal (+ other pamplets) Criticism on the British who don’t do anything against Irish poverty + criticism on Irish passivity Oscar WILDE (1854-1900), born in Dublin, lived in England and Paris James JOYCE (1882-1941), left Dublin for a cosmopolitan, detached perspective

  21. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939) A) Anglo-Irish family => passion for the Irish countryside and folklore - The Rose (1893): romantic, exotic, languid, symbolic B) Love for Maud Gonne, a fervent patriot and actress => the artist has to encourage national consciuosness, themes, traditions - 1899, Irish Theatrical Society , plays at the Abbey theatre

  22. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939) C) Gradual disillusionment as nationalism became mixed up with Catholic middle-class values D) After 1916 => sympathy for “moderate” members of the new government; became senator of the DIAL - Michael Robartes and the Dancer, 1921 IRISH SYMBOLISM: “Norman Tower” => historical cycles & the past “Parnell” => past and present possibilities

  23. SEAMUS HEANEY (1939 -…) • County of Derry – Northern Ireland; eventually settled in Dublin • Graduated in English language and literature; taught in Dublin, Oxford and Harvard (USA) • 1995: Nobel Prize for literature • Lived throught the conflicts of his time; got involved into the civil rights movement • POETRY: a mode of resistance and responsibility

  24. SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1985) • Family: protestant, Anglo-Irish, well-off • Education: modern languages and literatures at Trinity College, Dublin; worked as a secretary for Joyce; travelled to France • 1946: Settled in Paris: taught English and wrote in French • 1969: Nobel Prize for literature

  25. Francis "Frank" McCourtIrish- American (1930 – 2009) 1996: Angela's Ashes memoir that consists of various anecdotes and stories of Frank McCourt's impoverished childhood and early adulthood in BROOKLYN, New York and Limerick, Ireland, as well as McCourt's struggles with poverty, his father's drinking issues, and his mother's attempts of keeping the family alive. 1996 : it won the Pulitzer rize for Biography and Autobiography. A sequel to the book, 'Tis, was published in 1999, and was followed by Teacher Man in 2005

  26. Roddy Doyle (Dublin 1958, ) • Novelist, dramatist, screenwriter; several of his books have been made into successful films , e.g. The Commitments, 1991 • 1993: Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, a novel in which the world is described,understood and misunderstood by a ten-year-old Dubliner. • A Star Called Henry (1999) -The story of Henry Smart, an IRA assassin and 1916 Easter Rebellion fighter, from his birth in Dublin to his adulthood when he becomes a father. • Oh, Play That Thing! (2004) — Henry Smart's adventures in 1924 America, specifically the Lower East Side of New York City , where he catches the attention of local mobsters by hiring kids to carry his sandwich boards. He also goes to Chicago where he becomes a business partner with Louis Armstrong. The title is taken from a phrase that is shouted in one of Louis Armstrong's songs, "Dippermouth Blues". • The Dead Republic (2010) — Henry Smart's adventures with Hollywood film-making

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