Jill Ireland

Crèveloeur’s character, James, “beholds fair cities, substantial villages, extensive fields, an immense country filled with decent houses, good roads, orchards, meadows, and bridges, where an hundreds years ago all was wild, woody and uncultivated!” (Horwitz 25). America’s identity is formed by how its citizens and visitors view the country. Crèveloeur described America as being a beautiful frontier. John Quinney’s speech was the complete opposite from Crèveloeur’s story. It focused on the…

The great famine or the great hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. [1] Mainly the Irish were farmers and their major dependent was on farming but what changed the situation is the number of historical reasons. During the famine, approximately 1 million people died and a lot of them emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%. [2] The famine was caused by a potato disease commonly known as…

when the British Empire had conquered Ireland and Scotland. This forced the inhabitants of both countries to give up their customs and traditions to conform to the British Monarchy for almost 1000 years. Both countries continuously fought the Kingdom of England between the early 14th to the 18th century, to liberate their beloved homeland from British reign and regain their independence and identity. A historical grudge still resonates today in Northern Ireland. Political agenda is an important…

Meet Mickey Sullivan, a thirteen year-old Irish immigrant. His parents are Ava and Sean Sullivan. They arrived to the U.S. in 1847. They have considered changing their names to blend in with their surroundings, but decided against it. Their life in Ireland during the 1840s was very difficult. A blight, a disease that destroyed the leaves and the potatoes of the plant, wiped out almost all of their potato crop. The Irish relied heavily on one or two varieties of potato, and because of this it…

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 churches. Ireland is filled with many kinds…

As someone who is primarily Scotch Irish, I speak for myself and many other Americans in believing that the First Scottish War of Independence had a large impact in the lives of our ancestors. At the finale of this war was the Battle of Bannockburn, an extraordinary battle and victory for the underdog in numbers, Scotland, a country protecting its land from the massive power that was England. The historical significance of the battle is what keeps it alive to this day in Scotland. This past…

Since the Irish parliament was dissolved in 1801 and Ireland was enveloped in the new United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Ireland) under the Act of Union, many Irishmen and women have at one point or another planned and carried out insurrections against the tyranny of the English. Although the insurrectionists of the Easter Rising of 1916 share the failure of their predecessors, they achieved a lasting impact on the history of Ireland in a way that those that came before never did. On that…

bustling campus of Trinity College on his left‒looking back across the street there was the Trinity Capitol Hotel. An old 1800s, cozy, three-story brick building that wrapped around the corner where it bordered Tara Street. Since it was 6:30 pm in Ireland; the streets were jammed with college students that were party hopping and shopping at the many storefronts that dotted the strip. McGinty was a swift walker. And as the crowd parted for him, he led his company through the front door…

The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory was a play published on March 9th, 1907 at the Abbey Theatre. The theatre being known for Irish literature and drama, the majority of Gregory’s plays were performed there. Different literary critic have slightly different suggestions on what they consider the main theme of this play to be. Two analysis of Lady Gregory and her one-act play that will be presented in this paper are by Elaine T. Partnow and Edward A. Kopper Jr. Two people who can be considered…

Cassie Manoogian Dr. Altman English 102 27 October 2014 #RRC 8 Jonathan Swift was a minister in eighteenth-century Ireland who became tired of listening to the complaining of the rich of how the children of poor people were a burden to their parents and the country and how they needed to be beneficial to the rest of society. Swift is known for his satirical writings, but in this piece he was trying to prove a point to society of how heartless they were becoming and how ridiculous they sounded.…