Ireland

When I was nineteen years old life was pretty hard in Ireland. It was not like you think it is today where many people go for vacation to rest and see the beautiful land. There was an law passed long before I was born that took many rights from our Irish people like voting, being able to defend ourselves with weapons, receiving an education, and enrolling in colleges, gaining employment. Because of the many rights that were taken away there was forced military service among our men leaving young mothers without fathers for their children, famine which is not enough food for everyone and many people died, too many people where in the country and many of them without jobs, and religious persecution which means we were not allowed to practice our beliefs without consequences.…

poverty” (Connolly 41). Segregation between the Catholics and Protestants led to a prolonged economic downturn in Ireland. The minority Protestant population achieve an economic advantage over the Catholics in Ireland through the oppressive Penal laws which were designed to strengthen the Protestant stronghold on Ireland's economy. One of the defining policy under the law required Catholic to divide land equally among male heir and forbad them from purchasing land. This law ended Catholic…

important aspects of Irish culture and history. The country of Ireland is geographically located at the westernmost portion of the British Isles, withstanding the people primarily speak a combination of Irish and English. Temperate climate provides the rain necessary for the green pastures and its nickname. The people of Ireland number nearly 3.6 million, roughly 95 percent of which are predominately Roman Catholic. Ireland, a country rich in history and cultural heritage has been around…

simple things such as potatoes can be such a devastating thing to engulf a nation. This is of course the Great Hunger, also known as the Great Famine. It was one if not the most devastating events in Irish history. Costing Ireland an estimated 800,000 lives to hunger , and even more emigrating out to other nations. Though this number does not stack up to other tragedies in size, this made up roughly 10 percent of the population alone, not accounting for those who had left. But what did the loss…

Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the British oppression rapidly increased as the British began to pass laws against the Irish Catholics in Ireland. Some of the laws included preventing the Irish Catholics from holding public office, limiting their rights to education, buying and selling land, bearing arms, serving in the army, obtaining certain jobs, or voting. These weren’t the only things the British took away from the Irish, they also decided to reform Ireland by…

The culture, music and history of the Celts in Ireland has influenced and created the modern era of Celtic rock and punk music. This paper will discuss the origins, development and instruments used in Celtic rock and punk music and give a view into how the culture, traditional Celtic music, and history has influenced them. Ireland has a long history and has been inhabited since about 500-300 BCE, but for this paper, the late 19th century and 20th century will be the focus (Hast, Scott, 20).…

England had dominance over the Catholics and Presbyterian Protestants in Ireland by the 1700. This dominance over Ireland was established by hierarchy system and legislative power and another reason being regulation of religion. These changes provoked Irish mean and woman to emigrate out of Ireland and in some cases feel like exiles. Ireland began to be majorly Catholic and when England came to Ireland to challenge this they began to feel like they were look down upon. With the English system…

Dia duit. The culture of Ireland fascinates me for many reasons. This country is located in Eastern Europe and has about 6 billion residents. My grandparents lived in Ireland for many years before they came to America. In Ireland the cultural practices are very similar to America’s holidays. My family does some of Ireland culture but we also do very different things. I am excited to learn even more about Ireland. Ireland has so many unique facts about it. In Ireland their main industry is…

part of my family ancestry. My grandmother’s maiden name was McMinimen. Ireland is a very safe place as stated in the book, “Ireland” “Safety is the responsibility of the police. Overall crime in Ireland is low.” Many are considered “Normans” who are people who believe strongly in their culture. Ireland is a beautiful country filled with many historical events especially in their capitol Dublin. Ireland is a very religious place. Its main religion is Christianity. They also have Roman Catholic…

In the book “Why Ireland starved: a quantitative and analytical history of the Irish economy, 1800-1850” the author Joel Mokyr tries to assess why the Great Famine of Ireland from 1845-1852 was so disastrous. Mokyr is an economic historian and as a result, the book is from an economic perspective and does not consider other factors outside of the economy as causes tot the famine. The majority of the book focuses on the lead up to the event and it is not until the last chapter when Mokyr…