At the end of the XIX, a new Irish theatre was arising, as part of a movement known as the Irish literary renaissance. This movement was closely related to a strong political nationalism and a revival of Irish "the Gaelic Revival". Important names of this...
The English have been in Ireland, both as peaceful settlers and conquerors, since the 12th century. It was not until Henry VIII (king 1509-1547) that English interference took its toll on the Irish people. In order to subdue and rule Ireland, Henry sent Protestants...
The war brought radical changes in life and social forms. However, revolutionary innovations in technology already existed in 1914. The motor car, the aeroplane, the cinema, the telephone, the principles of radio, but the war speeded their development. Similarly...
Social and economic problems are the most outstanding features in Great Britain from the very end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second World War. However, two different periods should be considered, the first one from 1919 to 1929, in which...
In 1951, Churchill again became prime minister at the head of a Conservative government. George VI died on Feb. 6, 1952, and was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II. Churchill stepped down in 1955 in favour of Sir Anthony Eden, who resigned on grounds...
Following World War II, the United States emerged as one of the two dominant superpowers. The post-war era in the United States was defined internationally by the beginning of the Cold War, in which the United States and the Soviet Union attempted to expand...
The Detective novel has always been related to public interest in the problems of modern, urban life, particularly in crime. But crime as a feature of Western social life was not generally recognized until the rise of large cities in the early 1800s, a period...
Cinema should by now have attained some measure of cultural respectability. But many literary critics still view film at worst as the illegitimate offspring of theatre and photography, and at best as a vulgar, commercial medium, capable very occasionally of achieving...
The commonwealth is a free association of sovereign states comprising G B and a number of its former dependencies who have chosen to maintain ties of friendship and practical cooperation and who acknowledge the British monarch as a symbolic head...
The Commonwealth of Nations, usually known as the Commonwealth and sometimes as the British Commonwealth, is a voluntary association of 53 independent sovereign states, most of which are former British colonies (the exceptions being the United Kingdom...
