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    A Study Guide for William Trevor's "News from Ireland"
    A Study Guide for William Trevor's "News from Ireland"
    A Study Guide for William Trevor's "News from Ireland"
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    A Study Guide for William Trevor's "News from Ireland"

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    A Study Guide for William Trevor's "News from Ireland," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535829502
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      A Study Guide for William Trevor's "News from Ireland" - Gale

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      The News from Ireland

      William Trevor

      1986

      Introduction

      The News from Ireland hearkens back almost 150 years, to a cataclysmic event in Ireland’s history: the Great Famine, which left over a million Irish dead from hunger and drove as many as two million to leave their country of birth. Many Irish peasants were dependent on the potato as their only source of food, and the blight that struck in the 1840s virtually wiped out the country’s potato crop. Yet as the Irish author George Bernard Shaw pointed out in his play Man and Superman, the term famine was a misnomer: throughout the entire period, food products were being exported from Ireland instead of being made available to the starving population.

      In The News from Ireland, Trevor demonstrates the disparity between the starvation of the poor Irish and the comfort of Anglo–Irish who profit from their labor. He evokes the situation through the viewpoint of outsiders who feel no real effect of the famine. Hs characters are all Protestants, the majority from England. The Pulvertafts, who have inherited an English estate in Ireland, have over the years learned to accept the inequities inherent in Ireland and no longer feel uncomfortable about the position of privilege and ease that they occupy. Their new governess, however, has some difficulty acclimating to her new surrounding and accepting such unintentional wickedness. The story chronicles her shift to complacency, and in so doing, it raises more universal themes: the greater issues of personal and social responsibility.

      Author Biography

      William Trevor Cox was born in 1928 in County Cork, Ireland, to Protestant parents. His family moved frequently, and Trevor spent his childhood in many different towns throughout the south of Ireland. Because he belonged to the minority religious group, Trevor says he developed early on a sense of being on the outside looking in. Despite his outsider status, however, Trevor described himself as a young man who was "very, very nationalistic, intensely

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