Ireland. Eire. Part III. Фомина И.В. - 8 стр.

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Over a hundred new titles in Irish are published every year, including
books for children. Foremost among these contemporary writers are Liam
Ó Muirthile (b. 1950), Nuala Ní Dhómhnaill (b. 1952), Áine Ní Ghlinn
(b. 1955), Cathal Ó Searcaigh (b. 1956), Biddy Jenkinson (b. 1949) and Colm
Breathnach (b. 1961).
Ex. 3. Ask 10–12 questions to the text.
Ex. 4. Entitle each paragraph of the text and make a plan of the text.
Ex. 5. Retell the text using your plan.
UNIT V
Ex 1. Pre-reading task.
Answer the following question:
Do you know any Irish prose or poem written in English? Who are their
authors?
Ex. 2. Read and translate the text.
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Writing in English has flourished in Ireland since eighteen century. For
the past three centuries, Ireland has produced a golden treasury of literature in
English: drama, novels, poetry, short stories. Some of the world’s greatest writ-
ers in English have been Irish, from the satirist Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), au-
thor of Gulliver’s Travels, and the political essayist Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
to Samuel Beckett (1906–1989). The Anglo-Irish literary tradition began in the
late seventeenth century; the first great development took place in the eighteenth
century, that of the English comedy of manners. The main creators of these clas-
sical plays were Irish, educated at protestant grammar schools and at Trinity
College, Dublin, then an exclusively Protestant establishment. William Con-
greve, the dramatists Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) and Richard Brinsley
Sheridan (1751–1816) could hardly be detected as Irish from their writings.
The antidote was provided by Jonathan Swift, one time Dean of St Pat-
rick’s cathedral in Dublin, who savagely satirized the shortcomings of eight-
eenth century Ireland and its Protestant establishment. After the Act of Union in
1800 creative energy drained away from Ireland. Regional and romantic fiction
owing much to Scott became the vogue, with Maria Edgeworth’s novels being
powerful and popular indictments of landlords, especially the absentee variety.
William Carleton, an early nineteenth-century writer and the son of Irish-
speaking parents from County Tyrone, wrote vividly about Ireland’s rural
masses. Gerald Griffin and James Clarence Mangan were other noted nine-
      Over a hundred new titles in Irish are published every year, including
books for children. Foremost among these contemporary writers are Liam
Ó Muirthile (b. 1950), Nuala Ní Dhómhnaill (b. 1952), Áine Ní Ghlinn
(b. 1955), Cathal Ó Searcaigh (b. 1956), Biddy Jenkinson (b. 1949) and Colm
Breathnach (b. 1961).

      Ex. 3. Ask 10–12 questions to the text.

      Ex. 4. Entitle each paragraph of the text and make a plan of the text.

      Ex. 5. Retell the text using your plan.

                                        UNIT V

      Ex 1. Pre-reading task.
      Answer the following question:
      Do you know any Irish prose or poem written in English? Who are their
authors?
      Ex. 2. Read and translate the text.

                             LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

       Writing in English has flourished in Ireland since eighteen century. For
the past three centuries, Ireland has produced a golden treasury of literature in
English: drama, novels, poetry, short stories. Some of the world’s greatest writ-
ers in English have been Irish, from the satirist Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), au-
thor of Gulliver’s Travels, and the political essayist Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
to Samuel Beckett (1906–1989). The Anglo-Irish literary tradition began in the
late seventeenth century; the first great development took place in the eighteenth
century, that of the English comedy of manners. The main creators of these clas-
sical plays were Irish, educated at protestant grammar schools and at Trinity
College, Dublin, then an exclusively Protestant establishment. William Con-
greve, the dramatists Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) and Richard Brinsley
Sheridan (1751–1816) could hardly be detected as Irish from their writings.
       The antidote was provided by Jonathan Swift, one time Dean of St Pat-
rick’s cathedral in Dublin, who savagely satirized the shortcomings of eight-
eenth century Ireland and its Protestant establishment. After the Act of Union in
1800 creative energy drained away from Ireland. Regional and romantic fiction
owing much to Scott became the vogue, with Maria Edgeworth’s novels being
powerful and popular indictments of landlords, especially the absentee variety.
William Carleton, an early nineteenth-century writer and the son of Irish-
speaking parents from County Tyrone, wrote vividly about Ireland’s rural
masses. Gerald Griffin and James Clarence Mangan were other noted nine-
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