Barbarians In Irish History

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In Irish history, people saw Ireland as a place of savage barbarians, when they were actually just protecting their fellow man. One example was in 1798 when the Irish rebelled against Britain trying to reform them to a mini version of England, when they just want to be their own independent country. Ireland is a mirror for Britain by how when Britain does something to Ireland, Ireland in return attacks with the same force and with Ireland taking a liking to the French because of their rules and way of life, they got a look at freedom. A historian of Ireland, Dr. A.G. Richey when talking about people over a hundred years ago today as “... a knowledge of the truth is never dangerous, though ignorance may be so; and still more so is that half …show more content…
The Gaelic Golden Age was created in Irish monasteries where the details of the ancient Irish society were first written down, like the Book of Durrow and the Book of Kells. One day in 795 AD, off the coast of Dublin the Norsemen, known in Irish history as ‘Danes’, invaded Ireland. They had boats of fierce and terrible warriors who slaughter, burned, and ransacked their way into Irish history, by terrorizing and looting Gaelic homesteads and monasteries.(Kee, 27) Although the Irish didn’t retaliate against these invasions, they would have more invasions from different countries later in their history and eight hundred more years of …show more content…
You could reasonably oversimplify matters and say that this is the cause of the Irish problem. It is certainly the cause of Britain 's Irish problem. The attempt to assert that claim has given government in London the most consistent problem of her long domestic history.(Kee,15) In the beginning Catholics were not allowed to practice, Britain was forcing the idea of being protestant because of they want everyone to have the same religion. In the process, Britain banned all priests in Ireland and continue to patronize their religion, soon half of the country was protestant. Irish Catholic parents turn to enrolling their children in Catholic schools and colleges in Italy. Penal laws made being Roman Catholics hard or impossible to continue doing and mercantilism was a way of looking at countries’ trading processes, but Britain was always in the middle of Irish trades. Henry Grattan became a leading figure by 1778 when the Irish volunteers,a nationalist force, he adopted catholic emancipation in 1742, even though he hated it. With the Clerkenwell explosion and Irish republican actives, prime minister, Gladstone suggested that “first induced the British people to embrace, in a manner foreign to their habits in other times, the vast importance of the Irish controversy.”(Kee,21) When France became allies with the United Irishmen during the 1798 rebellion, it gave Ireland a look and taste

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