Influential Masterpieces In many works of literature, an author may make their works somewhat autobiographical. They may do this in order to make a specific work unique. This may also be done in order to bring out a particular point or fact. There are several stories in which the author uses ...

William Butler Yeats is best known for his large contribution to the Irish Literary Renaissance of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, his writing alone would have been unique enough to start a literary renaissance even if he had not been joined by fellow authors Lady Gregor...

Northern Ireland has been plagued by bloody and virtually ceaseless violence for the better part of the last hundred years. The conflict in Northern Ireland is a combination of religious strife between Catholics and Protestants, nationalism versus colonialism, and a search for a true Irish identity ...