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A generation later, the Irish Anglican bishop, George Berkeley ( 1685 – 1753 ), determined that Locke's view immediately opened a door that would lead to eventual atheism.
The right to register as an Irish citizen terminates at the third generation ( except as noted above ).
" According to Bronwen Walter, professor of Irish Diaspora Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, " the adoption of a hyphenated identity has been much more problematic for the second generation Irish in Britain.
Although he was influenced by French Symbolism, Yeats concentrated on an identifiably Irish content and this inclination was reinforced by his involvement with a new generation of younger and emerging Irish authors.
After a third campaign by Óengus in 741, Dál Riata then disappears from the Irish records for a generation.
A generation of leaders who had dominated Irish politics for over three decades had moved off the stage of history — although neither Fine Gael or Labour's new leaders initiated major policy changes on the level of Lemass '.
Many of the new generation of Irish leaders who played a central role in the fight for Irish independence in the early twentieth century, including Patrick Pearse, Éamon de Valera ( who married his Irish teacher Sinéad Ní Fhlannagáin ), Michael Collins, and Ernest Blythe first became politicised and passionate about Irish independence through their involvement in Conradh na Gaedhilge or ( Gaelic League ).
:" The fusing process goes on as in a blast-furnace ; one generation, a single year even -- transforms the English, the German, the Irish emigrant into an American.
Of Irish descent, Donovan was born in Buffalo, New York to first generation immigrants Anna Letitia " Tish " Donovan ( née Lennon ) and Timothy P. Donovan, of Ulster and County Cork origins respectively.
On June 29, 1826, Philip married Catherine Gavin, a 2nd generation American of Irish ancestry.
French, who like many generals of his generation genuinely believed that the government owed a moral duty to those who had served, urged that a “ Comrades of the Great War ( Ireland )” be set up to prevent returning Irish war veterans joining the Sinn Fein-dominated “ Soldiers ’ Federation ” – he also recommended that soldiers be given cash and land grants, perhaps in “ Soldiers ’ Colonies ”.
The assassination was greeted with horror in the UK, and compared to the Phoenix Park murders of 1882, which had – it was said – set back the cause of Irish Home Rule by a generation.
Upon his death in 2010, UNESCO-IHE described him as a " towering figure and pioneer in hydrology " whilst the Chancellor of the NUI, Dr. Maurice Manning, described him as " that rare phenomenon in Irish life, a public intellectual whose life was devoted, without posture, to the public service .” Professor John Sweeney who was one of the scientists as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 described him as " perhaps one of the most important, prolific and distinguished scientists of the past generation.
Overall, a new generation of young voters, the disappearance of much of the oldest generation of voters, and the sudden influx of women over thirty, meant that vast numbers of new voters of unknown voter affiliation existed, changing dramatically the make-up of the Irish electorate.
* Since the last general election in 1910 the local organisation of the previously dominant Irish Party, unchallenged for nearly a decade, had atrophied at best making defence of its seats difficult and was largely of an older generation.
O ' Reilly's mother Mina was of mixed Irish and Welsh descent, of a third generation family from Adelaide.
The most significant of the second generation Modernist Irish poets who first published in the 1920s and 1930s include Brian Coffey ( 1905 – 1995 ), Denis Devlin ( 1908 – 1959 ), Thomas MacGreevy ( 1893 – 1967 ), Blanaid Salkeld ( 1880 – 1959 ), and Mary Devenport O ' Neill ( 1879 – 1967 ).
While academic attention has remained, perhaps disproportionately, focused on poetry from Northern Ireland, several of the younger generation of Irish poets ( William Wall, Justin Quinn, Caitriona O ' Reilly ) have proved perceptive and independent critics of the contemporary scene, as have several older poets who are also literary critics, such as Hugh McFadden, Dennis O ' Driscoll and Michael Smith.
Veteran MP Timothy Michael Healy was the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State ( 1922 – 1928 ), an enlightened choice to bridge the gap between the old order and the new generation of Cumann na nGaedheal politicians, although highly partisan ( his nephew was Minister for Justice Kevin O ' Higgins ; Healy made a public attack on Fianna Fáil and Éamon de Valera, which led to republican calls for his resignation ).

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These fragments would be held for many years in tradition, and learned by apprenticeship from one generation of illiterate poets to the next.
This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.
He was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death.
October 8 BC ) was an ally, friend and political advisor to Octavian ( who was to become the first Emperor of Rome as Caesar Augustus ) as well as an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets.
It continues to be successful, and is now tiered by a mixture of younger / older and a newer generation of poets by way of the ' Speak Easy ' events.
Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation.
* September 2 – Indian Hungry generation poets are arrested on charges of conspiracy against the State and obscenity in literature.
Čapek was also a translator, and his translations of French poetry into the language inspired a new generation of Czech poets.
The new generation of poets distanced themselves from both the neo-romantics and the modernists: led by S. K. Neumann, their work focused on concrete reality, free of any pathos, or complicated symbolism.
After their rebellious first decade, the new generation of poets ( Toman, Neumann, Šrámek ) turned toward nature and life in their work.
A new generation of poets ushered in the return of the avantgarde: poetry of the heart ( early Jiří Wolker, Zdeněk Kalista ) and naivism ( Čapek brothers, Josef Hora, Jaroslav Seifert, and S. K. Neumann ).
Changes were apparent first in poetry: the new generation of poets ( Bohuslav Reynek, Vilém Závada, František Halas, Vladimír Holan, Jan Zahradníček ) began as poetists, but their work is much darker, full of images of death and fear.
The effectiveness of her capricious power even achieved respectability in philosophical circles during that generation, though among poets it was a commonplace to revile her for a fickle harlot.
Shaped by both Golden Age writers such as Francisco de Quevedo and, like many Spanish poets of his era, by European vanguard movements, notably by Surrealism, he joined a generation of socially conscious Spanish authors concerned with workers rights.
In an article in La France, 1915, the French critic, Remy de Gourmont described the Imagists as descendants of the French Symbolistes and in a 1928 letter to the French critic and translator René Taupin, Pound was keen to emphasise another ancestry for Imagism, pointing out that Hulme was indebted to a Symbolist tradition, linking back via William Butler Yeats, Arthur Symons and the Rhymers ' Club generation of British poets to Mallarmé.
Imagism influenced a number of poetry circles and movements in the 1950s, especially the Beat generation, the Black Mountain poets, and others associated with the San Francisco Renaissance.
An entire new generation of poets including Mikhail Lermontov, Yevgeny Baratynsky, Konstantin Batyushkov, Nikolay Nekrasov, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Fyodor Tyutchev, and Afanasy Fet followed in Pushkin's steps.
The leading poets of the young generation are arguably Dmitry Vodennikov and Andrey Rodionov, both famous not only for their verses, but also for their ability to artistically recite them.
In the late 2000s ( decade ) a new generation of young poets came, who prefer the classic style of writing, which inherits the traditions of the Silver Age: Maria Markova ( owner of the Russian presidential award ), Andrey Nitchenko ( winner of many authoritative literary contests ) and many others.
* The evolution of rhythm and blues into rock and roll as a high art form, as evidenced by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and other popular musicians influenced in the later fifties and sixties by Beat generation poets ' and writers ' works.
Like many other American poets of his generation, Roethke was a heavy drinker and susceptible, as mentioned, to bouts of mental illness.
The polemic introduction to New Lines targeted in particular the 1940s poets, the generation of Dylan Thomas and George Barker — though not by name.
Pierre de Ronsard ( 11 September 1524 – 28 December 1585 ) was a French poet and " prince of poets " ( as his own generation in France called him ).
The 1940s opened with the United Kingdom at war and a new generation of war poets emerged in response.
A new generation of innovative poets has also sprung up in the wake of the Revival grouping, notably Caroline Bergvall, Tony Lopez, Allen Fisher and Denise Riley.

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