Irish Novels Essay -- Comparative Literature

...for we have rights drawn from the soil and skythe use, the pace, the patient years of labour,...this is our country also, nowhere elseand we shall not be outcast on the world.John Hewitt, The ColonyFor many years the Big House in Ireland was very primary(prenominal). In an agrarian society, the estate system organise a backdrop for the economy and culture of the island. The Anglo-Irish Big House is a historical social structure that has been employed for various purposes in the literature of a anatomy of Irish authors. The Big House as a symbol of wealthiness and social position in Ireland is associated pre-eminently with the Anglo-Irish. The Big Houses of Ireland are very important to gain any understanding of the political, economic and social developments in Ireland between the seventeenth and ordinal centuries. Some historical as well as literary interpretations are very controversial - because of the controversial role of the Anglo-Irish community in Ireland. In corp oreal life an Anglo-Irish Big House was the home of and represented the wealth and power of the Anglo-Irish community and their supreme authority over the local community. Anglo-Irish big house dwellers were the prosopopoeia of the chasm between the native Catholic Irish people and their colonizers, the Protestant Englishmen. The big house novel is not purely Anglo-Irish concept. Ireland has a long history - Celtic and Gaelic tribes lived in the island already centuries before the English or other occupants came. The same happened in many places in the world - America, Canada, Africa and even in the Baltic States. Conquerors came, saw and took the land and power. Occupants seem to adopt a similiar convening of behaviour everywhere. When they come, they ... ...th an Introduction by Kathryn J. Kilpatrick. New York Penguin, 1993Graham, Colin.,,History, Gender amd the Colonial Moment Castle Rackrent, in Irish Studies Review (No. 14 1996, spring)Johnston, Jennifer. How many Miles to B abylon? London Penguin Books, 1988Kiberd, Declan. Inventing Ireland The books of the Modern Nation. London Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1995Mcmanus, Karen.,,Prodding Republicanism, in Fortnight (1995, April) 36-37.http//digital.library.upenn.edu/women/lawless/edgeworth/edgeworth.htmhttp//www.local.ie/literature/http//www.irishwriters-online.com Irish Novels Essay -- Comparative Literature...for we have rights drawn from the soil and skythe use, the pace, the patient years of labour,...this is our country also, nowhere elseand we shall not be outcast on the world.John Hewitt, The ColonyFor many years the Big House in Ireland was very important. In an agrarian society, the estate system formed a backdrop for the economy and culture of the island. The Anglo-Irish Big House is a historical structure that has been employed for various purposes in the literature of a variety of Irish authors. The Big House as a symbol of wealth and social status in Ireland is associated pre-eminen tly with the Anglo-Irish. The Big Houses of Ireland are very important to gain any understanding of the political, economic and social developments in Ireland between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. Some historical as well as literary interpretations are very controversial - because of the controversial role of the Anglo-Irish community in Ireland. In real life an Anglo-Irish Big House was the home of and represented the wealth and power of the Anglo-Irish community and their supreme authority over the local community. Anglo-Irish big house dwellers were the personification of the chasm between the native Catholic Irish people and their colonizers, the Protestant Englishmen. The big house novel is not purely Anglo-Irish concept. Ireland has a long history - Celtic and Gaelic tribes lived in the island already centuries before the English or other occupants came. The same happened in many places in the world - America, Canada, Africa and even in the Baltic States. Conquerors came, saw and took the land and power. Occupants seem to adopt a similiar pattern of behaviour everywhere. When they come, they ... ...th an Introduction by Kathryn J. Kilpatrick. New York Penguin, 1993Graham, Colin.,,History, Gender amd the Colonial Moment Castle Rackrent, in Irish Studies Review (No. 14 1996, spring)Johnston, Jennifer. How many Miles to Babylon? London Penguin Books, 1988Kiberd, Declan. Inventing Ireland The Literature of the Modern Nation. London Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1995Mcmanus, Karen.,,Prodding Republicanism, in Fortnight (1995, April) 36-37.http//digital.library.upenn.edu/women/lawless/edgeworth/edgeworth.htmhttp//www.local.ie/literature/http//www.irishwriters-online.com