Northern Ireland peace process

My project is on the country Ireland. Ireland is a large island located in the North Atlantic, West of Great Britain. Ireland is the third-largest Island in Europe and the twentieth-largest in the world. The geography consists of several low lying mountains surrounding a central plain, with several rivers expanding inland. The island 32,599 square miles. The climate is always humid, because of the high precipitation. The capital of Ireland is Dublin. I choose Ireland because of my Irish heritage…

Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is called Éire in Irish and is also known as the Republic of Ireland. Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, in the northeast of the island. The United Kingdom is the only country…

of basic products, a sparse population, recurrent subsistence crises and widespread 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…

The House of Commons is made by Members of State (MPs). The public elects the members every five years. The House of Commons debates important issues, makes and reviews laws, represents the public and holds the Government to account. Inside the House of Commons, there are two sides: on one side, there is The Government, which runs the country, and the other side is called The Opposition who keeps an eye on what the Government is doing. The chamber has 437 seats for over 650 members. The Commons…

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…

lower on the status pole. Julie explains, “I find myself seated at the top of a high pillar and I see no possible way to get down. I grow dizzy when I look down, but down I must. But I'm not brave enough to throw myself… And yet I can find no rest or peace until I shall come down to earth; and if I came down to earth I would wish myself down in the ground” (9). But Jean responds with feeling the exact opposite: “I dream that I'm lying in a dark wood under a tall tree and I would up--up to the…

The Easter Rising began on Easter Monday, 24th of April 1916, and lasted for six days. The Easter Rising was an insurrection against British rule in Ireland and took place in Ireland's capital city, Dublin. The Easter Rising of 1916 is believed to be the most compelling single event in modern Irish history. The number of plays, novels and poems centred around the Easter Rising are endless. For the purpose of this essay I will discuss how the Easter Rising is represented in both Sean O' Casey's…

dispassion for contemporary life, resulting in his nostalgic longing for the past and to be part of the Irish ancient legends – to transcend the life of the ordinary man. The red rose is used by Yeats as a nationalist symbol to represent a mythological Ireland, which shows Yeats’ sense of nationalism that only grew over the years. The poem starts with: “Red rose, proud rose, sad Rose of all my days!”. Here “all my days” gives the impression that the…

nationalists regard the Rising as the most important event in twentieth-century Irish history. Without it, Irish politics would have been shaped by the moderate constitutional nationalism of John Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party, and southern Ireland may have remained part of the British Empire for much of the twentieth-century. One of the driving forces behind the rebellion was Patrick Pearse, an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist. He became…

couple of class projects regarding the use of Body Scanners and Less Lethal Weapons and the Court Cases regards both. While as a graduate student, I participated in a summer school program of Irish Studies at Queens University in Belfast, Norther Ireland. While there, I learned about Irish History, Culture, and an in-depth look at The Troubles. They…