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An English Speaking Culture

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• U2


• Enya


• The Cranberries


• James Joyce The novel Ulysses

(1922),a short story collection

Dubliners (1914), the novels A Portrait of

the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).


• Sinéad O'Connor.


• Oscar WildeNovel novel, The Picture

of Dorian Gray,

Plays The Importance of Being Earnest, Salomé and An Ideal Husband.


• Riverdance


• George Bernard Shaw

Play Pygmalion (1912)—on which My Fair Lady was based


• The Corrs


• Where are these people from?

• England• South Africa• USA• Ireland


• Ireland The Republic of Ireland is the official description of the sovereign state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of north-west Europe. The state's official name is Ireland (in the Irish language: Éire) and this is how international organisations and residents usually refer to the country. It is a member of the European Union, has a developed economy and a population of slightly more than 4.2 million. The remaining sixth of the island of Ireland is known as Northern Ireland and is part of the United Kingdom. Source: Wikipedia


• Ireland and Northern Ireland


• Republic of Ireland

and

• Northern Ireland


• Republic of Ireland Capital: Dublin

Official Languages: Irish and English

Government: Republic

Independence from United KingdomDeclared: 21 January 1919Recognised: 6 December 1922

Accession to EU: January 1, 1973

An English Speaking Culture• The Importance of Being Earnest, a play

by Oscar Wilde This play was a great triumph since its first performance.Earnest is free of any melodrama; it brought irony, satire and verbal witt to English drama. Yet follows an unusually clever plotline, where alter egos adopt false identities while adopting the name that was popular among women at that time, Earnest.


• Oscar Wilde and His StyleOscar Wilde is known for his incisive and scathing attach on Victorian values. A married father of two, fell madly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. Oscar Wilde was sued by the father of his lover and inprisioned. This way hee falls from the heights of British society to the depths of prison and exile. Oscar Wilde was the first famous homosexual in history. One of the 19th century’s greatest contributors to literature, his epigrams are endlessly quoted. His paradoxical parables remain inprint, most notably The Picture of Dorian Gray.In his play Salome, Wilde applies the musical technique of constructing melodies by repeating words, phrases and thoughts like musical motifs, the text is very poetic and melodic and thus suits well for musical arrangings.

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