Irish Writing

Thesis for ‘Making History’

Brian Friel’s ‘Making History’ brings the large-scale conflict between Ireland and England into a small-scale domestic sphere in order to portray how external violence registers into intimate spaces.

‘Making History’ P1 E1

‘The only other person I know who has one is Queen Elizabeth’

‘Making History’ P1 E2

‘Hybrid mind’- Marilynn Richtarik

‘Making History’ P2 E1

Fight between Mabel and her sister

‘Making History’ P2 E2

‘We’re really talking about a life-and-death conflict, aren’t we? Only one will survive’

‘Making History’ P3 E1

‘The replacement of a public event, by a private, intimate tragedy’- Martine Pelletier

‘Making History’ P3 E2

‘Only from this outside position does he fully apprehend the gap between the England seen as a ‘golden beneficent land’ and the England which is engaged in ruthless suppression of the Irish’- Yvonne Lysandrou

What battle is fought in ‘Making History’

Battle of Kinsale 1601

Who is trying to write O’Neill’s story

Lombard

What is the name of O’Neill’s other companion

O’Donnell

History Essay P1 E1

‘The women want to be taken out of the static realm of history and myth into a world where they can swear, feel the cold, have children, and age’- Jeannette E Riley

History Essay P1 E2

‘The kettle in the toaster is a kingfisher/ Swooping for trout above the river’s mirror’- ‘Woman in Kitchen’

History Essay P1 E3

‘Finishes kneading cake, and puts it down in the pot-oven by the fire; then wipes her hands, and begins to spin at the wheel’- Cathleen

History Essay P1 E4

‘Which gives the simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.’- Synge

History Essay P2 E1

‘Thousands of years before/ Our pain did; they are, they always have been/ Outside history.’- ‘Outside History’

History Essay P2 E2

‘Boland’s decolonizing poetry constructs an Irish past that is not definitive’- Kim McMullen

History Essay P2 E3

‘I was surprised at the abundance and fluency of the foreign tongue.’- Synge

History Essay P2 E4

Synge writes with Irish syntax and rhythm