Northern Ireland

period of time in which there was a great desire to connect and revitalize the old energies of folklore, myth, and magic with the new, creating a new cultural nation of Ireland. Lady Gregory’s 1910 folklore “Biddy Early: Healer,” is composed of multiple folklore of the aid Biddy Early gave to the poor, desperate rural people of Ireland during the Post-Famine Era in 1890. Although some people had doubted Biddy Early, the mythical and magical lore associated with her proved her to be reliable and…

Ireland Ireland otherwise known as the Emerald Isle is an island country west of the United Kingdom with beautiful landscapes and Proud people. for example, Colin Farrell said that “Being Irish is very much of who I am I take it with me everywhere I go.” Now lots of people feel this, now 15% of people that live in the US have come from Irish decent. You could learn a lot about Ireland using the five themes of geography: Movement, Region, Human/Environment Interaction, Place, and Location.…

When History Is About Feelings In Frank Delaney’s Ireland, he takes the reader through the vivid tale of Irish history from a variety of perspectives. He applies emotion in his writing to criticize how history is taught today. Most scholars would agree with Ronan O’Mara’s professor, T. Barlett Ryle, when he argues, “History is not about feelings. History is about knowledge” (Delaney 342). However, it is taught from an objective point of view that causes it to be devalued, misunderstood, and…

Great Blasket is a scanty Island off the coast of Atlantic coast of Ireland. This Gaelic community is very different from the communities the average person living in the United States is used to. These people have a different sense of place that is impacted by their environment, their limited exposure to the outside world, and their belief systems. The people on this island live a very simple life that can almost be described as boring. Their lifestyles revolve around very simple jobs such as…

blight, scientifically known as Phytophthora infestans, infects the leaves and edible roots of the potato plant, leaving the whole crop rotting in the fields. Because at least half of Ireland at that time, mainly her poor, depended heavily on the potato crop as the main source of nutrients, and the rest of Ireland consumed it in large…

Cathleen ni Houlihan is a mythological female figure who represents Irish nationalism in literature and art. In the play Cathleen ni Houlihan written by William Butler Yeats and Lady August Gregory, she is personified as an old, suffering woman, representing Ireland’s oppression by the English. Cathleen and the martyred Saint Joan of Arc, as represented in George Bernard Shaw’s play Saint Joan, share strong similarities. Significantly, Maud Gonne, the original Irish actress chosen to portray…

During the 1800’s, the potato famine in Ireland caused around one million Irish people to immigrate to America. They settled in cities and worked in factories, and generally, were pretty poor. With the Irish immigration came a lot of Anti-Irish Sentiment from the Americans. That leads us back to the question- were Irish considered white in the 19th century America? Well, that depends on what your definition of “white” is. Obviously, it is a color...or rather, lack of color. It can also be used…

Irish author, Charles Handy, once said, “Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning” (“Charles” 2017. Par 7). Handy attempted to convey that growth is prompted by change. This assertion is a lesson that I learned first hand when I moved from Tennessee to Michigan at the age of ten. The move pushed me into adolescence, and I transformed into an entirely different person that year. Later down the road when I saw myself headed down the wrong path because of my lack of…

trouble they went through to reign in Ireland and establish the Act of Union in 1800. An example of this is shown clearly in Paddy’s Lament describing the British extraction of food and supplies from Ireland made by Irish people during 1847, the most brutal year of the Great Famine. During that year “Captain Larcom, found the total value of the agricultural produce of Ireland for that year to be… enough to feed… not only the eight million people living in Ireland but another eight million…

to change their policies before he died, his strike eventually succeeded and his methods provoked an increase in anti-British activity. Additionally, it is relevant that Lib, Anna O’Donnell’s British nurse in The Wonder, has much to eat while in Ireland, but despises both the food and the nation, leading to questions such as, “Wasn’t some…