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Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: Modernism and Modernity

Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: Modernism and Modernity. Enric Monforte Jacqueline Hurtley Bill Phillips. William Butler Yeats 1865-1939. http://www.geocities.com. http://www.concentric.net. Jack Butler Yeats 1871-1957. http://www.yeats-sligo.com.

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Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: Modernism and Modernity

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  1. Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: Modernism and Modernity Enric Monforte Jacqueline Hurtley Bill Phillips

  2. William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 http://www.geocities.com

  3. http://www.concentric.net Jack Butler Yeats 1871-1957 http://www.yeats-sligo.com John Butler Yeats 1839-1922

  4. http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org “On through the Silent Lands” by Jack Yeats

  5. http://www.emmedici.com “My beautiful, my beautiful” 1953

  6. Yeats fell in love with Maud Gonne, a supporter of violent revolution. 1897-8 he joined Irish Republican Brotherhood to impress her. http://www.yeats-sligo.com

  7. Maud Gonne 1866-1953 http://www.hermeticgoldendawn.org http://www.enoque.blogger.com.br/maud%20gonne.jpg www.research.umbc.edu

  8. Friendly with Lady Gregory. Mutual interest in Irish folk-lore and came to believe in the virtues of aristocracy and peasant life. set up Irish theatre in Dublin together (Abbey theatre 1904). Wrote plays for Maud Gonne to appear in. http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/exhibition/dublin/literary/full/OldAbbey1913M.jpg

  9. http://www.au.encarta.msn.com http://www.uvm.edu Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory 1852-1932

  10. “Easter 1916" http://www.users.bigpond.net.au ‘At the moment I feel that all the work of years has been overturned, all the bringing together of classes, all the freeing of Irish literature and criticism from politics’

  11. “That woman” Con Markiewicz (1868-1927). Death sentence commuted. “This man had kept a school” Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie http://www.nationalarchives.ie “This other” Thomas MacDonagh 1876-1916) “This other” John MacBride 1865-1916 James Connolly 1870-1916 http://www.rsf.ie

  12. 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature http://www.nobelprize.org

  13. Dies in 1939 Yeats is buried in Sligo http://www.commons.wikimedia.org

  14. Cathleen Ni Houlihan (1902)

  15. 1798 Rebellion of the Society of United Irishmen Founded in Belfast in 1791 by Theobald Wolfe Tone. The ideals of the Society were based on those of the French Revolution http://www.searcs-web.com/tone.html

  16. The Society developed into Irish republicanism, defending total separation from England. The Society led a rebellion in 1798, supported by the French. The rebellion failed. The rebels who were captured were publicly hanged and hundreds more left the country.

  17. 1801 Act of Union The Act abolished the separate Irish Parliament. Ireland was annexed to Great Britain under the name of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The Union lasted from 1801 to 1921. Anglo-Irish Protestant landowing ascendancy vs. Irish Catholic peasant majority

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