Jill Ireland

Just as with Catholic schools at the time, the Irish in Britain were also segregated from the general British population through the establishment of Irish working-class ghettos. “John Foster has described the existence of ghettoized Irish communities and anti-Irish hostility as a significant factor in the assertion of political and industrial authority over the indigenous working-class in the mid-nineteenth century.” (Hickman, 17). Throughout the nineteenth century, the Irish in Britain were…

a 45 year old male Christian immigrant from Ireland that came to settle in Canada to start up a farming business. Alphonsus migrated to Canada due to the potato famine in Ireland. But, what was the cause of the potato famine? The great famine or the Ireland potato famine was caused by a potato disease; Phytophthora infestans better known as potato blight. This infection damaged crops throughout Europe during the 1840s to around the 1860s. However Ireland was the most affected as one third of the…

signed the Declaration of Independence (Robert ‘25)”. Between 1800-1844 there were 8 million people in Ireland, during the same years, 600,000 left for America. Many of the immigrants were poor, unskilled Irish-Catholics from southern and western Ireland. Through 1841-1850, 780,700 people emigrated from Ireland for America and Canada. Today, 40 million Americans can trace their lineage back to Ireland. Starvation, religious discrimination, and disease forced Irish immigrants out of their home…

In the early 1700s, poverty struck Ireland physically and spiritually. High taxes, overpopulation, drought, and the famous potato famine drove the Irish out of their normal life. An Anglo-Irish, Johnathan Swift, journeyed through Ireland and witnessed the poverty-stricken conditions the Irish were living in. However, no soul was brave enough to advocate for change. This ultimately angered Swift and incited him to craft “A Modest Proposal.””. Taking on a persona of an impersonal and statistical…

poverty crisis under the guise of a logistically sound yet ethically decrepit solution. Drawing attention to the issue through the proposal’s sheer absurdity, Swift constructs a targeted criticism of England’s apathetic attitude towards the state of Ireland under the guise of presenting cannibalism as a cure for poverty and overpopulation. By adopting a detached, high-minded tone towards his outrageous proposition, Swift mocks the apathy of England towards the Ireland’s dire poverty issue and…

The Irish people were faced with many problems in their home countries of Ireland that caused them to migrate to the United States. The first wave of people that migrated to the United States in the nineteenth century were Protestants, political refugees, and Catholic peasants. Most of these people were farmers that had their land taken from them, or their landlords no longer leased the land because of an interest in grazing. According to the textbook A Different Mirror: A History of…

Around this time of year, people in all parts of the world have celebrated the Celtic festival known as Halloween. The reason I chose this topic was my fascination of the holiday, dressing up as the supernatural, carving Jack-o-Lanterns, and trick or treating. I have always wondered how Halloween became such became such a popular holiday. The origins of Halloween can be traced back to the pre-Christian festival of the dead, also known as Samhain. This ties to the theme of Religion since it was…

There are several parallels between the eviction of renters in the Ireland by the rich landlords and the dispersion of people from New Orleans after Katrina. Some of the major ones include the exploitation for profit and the turning of a blind eye by government officials. During the Irish Potato famine, wealthy landlords would routinely kick out tenants without notice. To prevent them from returning, they would sometimes tear down or even burn down their homes. This was done to gain economically…

to early 1900s (1879-1916). (Green, http://www.ireland-information.com/articles/padraigpearse.htm) He was a nationalist and firmly believed that Ireland should be its own country. He was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (a group that wanted to use force to break the link with England). Pearse was executed at the age of 36 in Dublin, Ireland. After his death, he became the personification of the uprising against England. (White, E-Study Guide For: Terrorism and Homeland Security) 2.…

William Butler Yeats was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century; his works were inspiring and embraced a culture lost with the changing of times in Ireland. Yeats was born in the spring of 1865, to John Butler Yates and Susan Mary Pollexfen, during the time of the protestant ascendancy in Ireland; he was the oldest one of his three siblings. His father John, dissatisfied with his current standings, dropped out from law school to pursue a career as a painter and became a well…