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Irish Literary Themes in 1916 by Morgan Llywelyn

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Consideration of the Popular Themes in Irish Literature , For - June 2001 -- for more information on using this paper  properly! The themes which have been prominently featured throughout the illustrious history of Irish literature have been a mirror reflection of the people themselves. The Irish are a  people of many passions, expressed both internally and externally. The people and their literature have long contemplated the perpetual conflict between the soul and the body. A man  feels with the heart beating within his body, but it is his soul that dictates his actions. The celebrated Irish poet William Butler Yeats pondered how the moods inspired  by the struggle between mind and body are manifested in literature. He mused, "Literature differs from explanatory and scientific writing in being wrought about a mood, or a community  of moods, as the body is wrought about an invisible soul; and if it uses argument, theory, erudition, observation, and seems to grow hot in assertion or denial, it does  so merely to make us partakers at the banquet of the moods" (William Butler Yeats: Quotations). While the soul and body  conflict rages within, there are conflicts aplenty without. The passage of time also brings with it change, often initiated through the violent means of war and revolution. Ireland  is a country which has seen more war than most, much of it fought on its own shores. Irish citizens are constantly faced with dealing with the destruction wrought  by the changing times, which have incited more than a few uprisings and rebellions. Amidst all these struggles and changes, man feels the need to find something permanent in