Irish Republican Army

The Irish Diaspora in the US is massive with the 1990 census totalling an immense 43 million Americans consider themselves to be Irish American which at the time equated to roughly 19% of the American population(Feargal Cochrane 2007:218). Beyond just equating for a fifth of the American population, a third of American…

of United Kingdom while the nationalists wanted to join the Republic of Ireland. The Catholic in Ireland felt discriminated against by the Protestant majority who made up most of parliament. The conflict began in 1968 and ended in 1998. First, Irish people rioted against British rule, and eventually parted from them creating the Republic of Ireland. Then, the Catholic in Northern Ireland, which continued under British rule, faced heavy discrimination. For example, the Catholic were offered…

Introduction: Second-generation Irish migrants in post-WWII England took up a variety of noteworthy hybrid-identities. This particular study of displacement is significant in the context of WWII, which produced twenty-seven million displaced persons and furthermore, is relevant in a present day context because of the continually increasing number of refugees worldwide. This essay compares the way that the two popular music bands made up of second-generation Irish migrants, The Pogues and The…

that the parties have lost control of the national debate as well as the other congressional candidates and issues. In past years it has seemed like candidates are selected by the parties through a “rigged system”, meaning that the Democratic and Republican parties already have in mind those candidates who they want to endorse. This year the parties have lost control of the election process. This is due to populist candidates coming from outside the traditional party system, which is “a style…

Parties were destined to play a central role in American politics ever since the introduction of representative democracy in the United States after the establishment of the US constitution in 1788. The founding fathers of American agreed that direct democracy would be detrimental to US society. James Madison wrote in the the Federalist papers 10 that direct democracy would create the tyranny of the majority, whereby political decisions would favor the majority and disregard the interests of the…

supported the white South while doing close to nothing for the freed slaves. His favor towards the white South then radicalized ordinary white Republicans, therefore starting Radical Reconstruction. After winning most of the elections of 1866, the Radical Republicans acquired close to all control of policy in Congress. With the more moderate Republican friends, they also gained control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, which meant an abundant amount of say to override any vetoes…

Bush’s promotion of global democracy goes hand in hand with his crusading rhetoric, and despite the Iraq War, that was started in 2003 to ‘promote democracy and end tyranny’, being somewhat of a failure, Bush continued to place unflinching emphasis on the worldwide fight between freedom and tyranny – a fight for which the U.S. would and did act unilaterally by declaring war in Iraq. (Shinkman, 2015). There is little doubt that the Bush administration pursued a strand of liberal internationalism…

“After the 1948 election Republicans decided that the achievements of the New Deal couldn’t be reversed, and stopped trying, while Democrats… settled down to a program of incremental reform. The result was a generation-long era of muted partisanship.”(Krugman 155). This bipartisan cooperation was due to Republicans moving towards the middle in their policies. The Republican party needed to change the basis of its platform because “... the Great Compression…

While in office, Obama proved to be realistic and moderate. Obama made some initial attempts to distinguish himself as a reconstructive president. One example would be his executive order banning torture on his first day in office. Obama tried to continue his reconstructive tendencies like his signature achievement, the health-care reform bill. Yet not enough because the bill was largely conservative and when Obama abandoned climate-change legislation. But consistently Obama has continued the…

North and South, and urged moderate policies that would help to heal the wounds from the Civil War. Andrew Johnson advocated harsh penalties, including hanging, for Confederates, but softened his stance following Lincoln’s assassination. The Radical Republican Congress favored a more punitive Reconstruction policy and citizenship for the freedmen. This desire led to the passing of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States. The…