Irish Civil War

and history, having developed its own customs, musical styles, and cuisines, which have distinguished it in some ways from the rest of the United States. The Southern ethnic heritage is diverse and includes strong European (mostly English, Irish, Scotch-Irish, Scottish and French),…

and Nancy McKinley who came from an English, Scots-Irish lineage. His dad, William McKinley sr. moved to Ohio when he was a kid. He married Nancy Allison Campbell on…

The Civil War started on April 12, 1861 and ended on April 9, 1865. The war was started when southern states seceded from the union after the election of Abraham Lincoln. There were many movements before the Civil War that were considered significant. There are four that were especially significant during the pre-Civil War period, which include the Nativist Movement, the Temperance Movement, the Manifest Destiny Movement, and the Abolition Movement. The Nativist Movement was a movement made by…

For quite some time now, the debate whether or not the United States government should pay restitution for the injustice of slavery, has been going on. When it comes to a sensitive topic, such as slavery, it is always difficult to completely gravitate to one side. After doing some bit of research and reading articles, it is safe to say that it would be wise to stick against reparations. The reasons for that, would be because it is simply too hard to identify who exactly is the descent of a slave…

hunting using an essay by Amy Kaplan. The non-literary piece, written by C. Armstrong, will be used to expose the hypocrisies of a wealthy businessman who stole from his company. For the illustration, I will comment on a cartoon that mocks female Irish servants, and use Lester F. Ward’s article “Plutocracy and Paternalism” (1895) for additional support. Finally, in section four, an advertisement for Sozodont, a popular product of oral hygiene, will be examined and its claims for healthier…

It could be said that the seemingly beautiful façade of Ireland is merely just a front, as Irish literature explicitly challenges the idea that this country is as unaffected as their landscape. However there is a much darker and conflicted understanding that leaks through Ireland which epitomizes it 's unstable past. Prevailing literary texts represent the harsh reality that is Ireland, whereby poverty and Catholicism serve to subjugate society. However it is evident that the population embodies…

socio-linguistic sense, I took a harder look at irregularities I had never before heard outside the context of my immediate family. Passed down from generations matrilineally: Great Grandmother, Grandmother and Mother alike have recited two distinct Irish rooted limericks and poems to me through the course of my life. As my great grandmother passed, G.G. (my mom’s Mother) and Jamie (my mom), continued the tradition at every family party, starting either one or both in a kind of…

crisis for many of the leading Irish…

despair as trade deteriorated and poor harvests brought starvation (“Hang up Half a Dozen Bankers ': attitudes to Bankers in Mid-eighteenth-century Ireland”). The English were also tyrannizing the Irish very strongly. All Ireland’s money was shipped off to England and the English policies kept the Irish poor. During this time, political pamphlets were distributed throughout Ireland to promote the ideas of various intellectuals but many discarded them (Cody). Jonathan Swift took advantage of the…

their babies, do not socialize children until they become toddlers, and mother-baby bonding in infancy through breastfeeding is also rare. Myths and superstitions may be the root cause of why babies are kept isolated and out of harm’s (fairies) way. Irish Catholics strongly believe in original sin, humans are by nature sinful and sins of the flesh need to be curbed. Mothers tend to see a baby’s innate need to suck, be rocked and stroked as something to be curtailed. Physical punishment, even for…