Outline In this paper I will attempt to define why the Anglo-Irish appeared to have such ambivalence towards the changes going on in the country around them. I will try to show that they did this out of fear; out of fear of themselves and of breaking away from the past, a past in which they perceived that their only security could come from. I will do this by using Bowen's own analogy of the …showed first 75 words of 3151 total…

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