{"title":"Ibsen, Yeats, Synge and the Development of Irish Cultural and Political Identity","authors":"Afuh Didachos Mbeng","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i7/hs2006-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i7/hs2006-014","url":null,"abstract":"Ireland’s over seven hundred years under British imperialism saw its national identity suffer immeasurably as the Irish themselves did. This is because imperialism was an educational movement where colonizers set out to “consciously modernize, develop, instruct, and civilize the colonized” (Said, 94). As many commentators of Irish history of colonization have reported, Irish native features like the ancient Gaelic culture, Ireland’s mother tongue, Irish traditions, thoughts and ideas, to say nothing of its independent identity were Anglicized. This article focuses on the cultural and political struggle for a reawakening of the Irish consciousness, and defends the view that the adoption of Ibsen’s works in Ireland was largely responsible for future political and literary developments in Ireland. I argue that Ibsen’s writings succeeded in establishing a new type of national identity in Ireland. Ibsen’s early plays like The Pretenders, without doubt, drove the poetic dramatist, W.B. Yeats to focus on dignifying Ireland’s Celtic past and Irish peasant life. By symbolically representing the Gaelic culture with its legends and heroes in Cathleen Ni Houlihan, Yeats intended to make the Irish conscious of their historical and mythological heritage. He used traditional Celtic symbols and shaped them in his own way. With this, he succeeded in transferring them into contemporary Ireland with a slightly different additional meaning. In addition, Ibsen’s master piece, An Enemy of the People, caused Synge to write plays that violated the existing picture of Irish nationality, thus bringing to limelight his personal conception of a new Irish political identity.","PeriodicalId":194775,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities and Social Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132722807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religion and Challenge of Societal Values","authors":"Wachukwu Chikodi Josiah","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i7/hs2007-050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i7/hs2007-050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194775,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities and Social Studies","volume":"12 45","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132748633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Influence of Business Strategy and Competitive Superiority to Business Performance of a National Forest-based Company PT. Inhutani I, Indonesia","authors":"Verri Ginoga","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i7/hs2007-102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i7/hs2007-102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194775,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities and Social Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121524541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impediments of Adult Children’s Support to Retired Primary School Teachers in Bumula Constituency of Bungoma County, Kenya","authors":"E. Wafula","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i7/hs2007-068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i7/hs2007-068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194775,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities and Social Studies","volume":" 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113949675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Availability of Electronic Libraries in Universities in Rivers State, Nigeria","authors":"Nwokoro Chukwudi Obinna, Obinachi Chinmanma, Lawrence Emenike Bull Igwe, Nwokoro Kelechi Cynthia","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i7/hs2007-041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i7/hs2007-041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194775,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities and Social Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116866053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of Educational Background and Religion among Women on the Occurrence of Intimate Partner Violence in Ekiti State, Nigeria","authors":"Modupe Mary Eloh, O. M. Bolarinwa","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i5/hs2005-036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i5/hs2005-036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194775,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities and Social Studies","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124575456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lukman Effendy, Dedi Kusnady, A. Maryani, Wida Pradiana
{"title":"Accelerating Farmers’ Regeneration of Chili Farmers in Garut District, West Java, Indonesia","authors":"Lukman Effendy, Dedi Kusnady, A. Maryani, Wida Pradiana","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i5/hs2005-111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i5/hs2005-111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194775,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities and Social Studies","volume":"57 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116517016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Libya in Post Muammar Ghadaffi Era","authors":"Samuel Ugochukwu Osisioma","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i5/hs2005-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i5/hs2005-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194775,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities and Social Studies","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134456325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Has Marx a Concept of Justice?","authors":"D. E. Igwe","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i5/hs2005-073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i5/hs2005-073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194775,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities and Social Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123049719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategies Influencing Corporate Social Responsibility Programs for Climate Change in Commercial Banks in Kenya","authors":"J. Njoroge, Kinyua Godfrey Muigai","doi":"10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i5/hs2005-041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i5/hs2005-041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194775,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities and Social Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126615497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}