Fine Gael Party example essay topic

THE IRISHMAN'S DIARY This is a news article taken from "The Irish Times" newspaper. The audience this story is written for are sophisticated, middle to upper class, business-types. The writer uses latinate language with long complex sentences, for example, "The first merely proves one thing: the poor creature has an addled pate, which therefore makes joining his party an eminently sound career move". His use of words is not that of everyday language, for example, "the insanity which prompted the blatant and cynical machiavellianism [sic] of President Chirac".

His sentence structure, although at times long and complex, does follow a normal logical pattern like "From Fine Gael, the party which made the Irish Free State, one might have expected rather more measured wisdom". He comes across to his audience as humorous yet very serious, at one point in his story he is willing to "break with tradition now to provide some springtime career advice to our younger readers" with his witty comparison of Fine Gael and the Catholic Church, both, {as he sees it} with declining membership and so a good chance of rapid promotion. He uses jargon to good effect when getting his point across, as when he says "green tree-staggers, green kneecap pers and green Stalinist's" referring to the Green Party, Sinn Fein and the Labour Party. The purpose of the article is both persuasive and informing. Yet he is also entertaining. He uses humour, "One day soon you will be the only still breathing member of the Little Brothers of St Anselm the pure, and be the sole heir to 500 Acres of Prime Fox rock Land.

Party-time" while stating that the priesthood is a dying occupation. He uses questions and answers", So what else can you do? You can join Fine Gael" and rhetorical questions as when he asks the consequences of taking "sides against a firm friend which is also the mightiest country in the world"? He is emotive and extreme when he writes "Defending your national interest with vision and courage and realism is not the same as proclaiming soupy and emotionally satisfying pities in a college debating society". His purpose of the story is to really criticise Enda Kenny and his party, Fine Gael.

He is also be quite sarcastic to his audience, a lot of whom support the Fine Gael party, "the party which made the Irish Free State, one might have expected rather more measured wisdom. But not, under Enda Kenny's sublime leadership". The writer's tone throughout the article is highly critical in his attacks on Enda Kenny, Fine Gael, President Chirac, France and the Catholic Church. He has a strong personality. He also involves the reader directly in the article, asking you to give the answers, "Do you know, Enda? No?

OK". The tone of the article is strong and consistent, with use of long complex sentences, strong nouns and adjectives, "sublime leadership", "strange reptile" and "the Devoted sisters of Lourdes, or the Warbling Friars of Fatima". His article remains the same throughout; he starts off on his topic and finishes on the same note.