Northern Ireland

Ireland is a country built on war. Throughout its history, it has been conquered, divided, won and lost wars. Even today, the island remains separated into two parts, one belonging to the Republic of Ireland and the other a member of the United Kingdom. The most substantial factor early on was the religion and today the clash between the north and the south is on economic issues. The north, which is part of UK, fairs better economically than the south, which is the Republic of Ireland.…

Jack Molchan Mr. Coyle English 415 8 March 2016 A Battle of Colors Come Out, Ye Black and Tans is an Irish song of rebellion. The song’s lyrics refer to the British paramilitary police force officially called the Royal Irish Constabulary Special Reserve. The Black and Tans were to be a force of temporary constables recruited to aid the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Irish War for Independence. Most were former British soldiers in the fields of Flanders during WWI who could not find work…

Friel’s 1980 play Translations tells the story of the fictional Donegal village of Baile Beag during the First Ordnance Survey of Ireland – a mapping of the country and anglicizing the Irish names of the places. The major theme of the play is language, and more specifically how the loss of a language can also help erase people’s history, culture and identity. In the 1800s Ireland was still a predominantly Gaelic-speaking nation. In 1975, only 2.7% of Irish speakers possessed a native speaker…

The events that took place during the 1649 re-conquest of Ireland are perhaps some of the most controversial in Irish history. Popular history tells us that Oliver Cromwell was a genocidal maniac who led an army with the aim of wiping out the Irish population. Consequently, the name Oliver Cromwell still brings out negative emotions in Ireland today. Cromwell went to Ireland with the aim of seeking the loyalty of the population to the Westminster Parliament. Attacks on towns such as Drogheda…

to the condition Ireland was in. As a country that was making major profit from the potato and supplying to many, Britain should of naturally supplied a lot of resources in order to continue that economic growth. However, Britain believed that the Irish were lazy because of the success of the potato. So much hatred that they created a generalized persona of how Irish citizens act. (lazy,angry and stubborn) This led to Britain trying to justify their reason for abandoning Ireland as a way of…

Finally, Irish Catholics in Toronto were not completely without support, since Quebec embraced Irish Catholic culture through the dominance of Catholic cultural ideology amongst the Francophone population. This type of political, social, and economic support defined one reason why the Catholic Irish in Toronto was alienated, yet not without some resources to countermand the sectarian oppression of the Orange Order: In time the appearance and plight of these faminites became a lens through which…

Originally the leaders of the Easter Rising assumed that everyone in southern Ireland were utterly against British rule, this was not true. Even in Dublin, many people relied on the British for work- whether they liked it or not. However, England’s harsh response to the uprising led many to sympathize with the movement. Not to mention…

islands. Located in Northern Europe, Scotland comprises the northern one third of the island of Great Britain as well as 790 surrounding islands encompassing the major archipelagos of the Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands and the Inner and Outer Hebrides. Scotland’s only land border is with England, which runs around for 60 miles, or 97km, in a northeasterly direction from the Solway Firth In the west to the North Sea on the east coast. Separated by the North Channel, the island of Ireland lies…

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…

seas of the world tumbled about her heart’. Thus, while Heaney offers a more postmodern investigation of identity as an external construct that allows him to resolve his sense of personal loss of heritage, Joyce focuses on the ‘moral history’ of Ireland struggling to assert itself in a pre-WWI zeitgeist and thus his treatment of Eveline’s inability to reconcile the loss of tradition is exemplary of Dublin’s paralysis in the early twentieth century. Thus, Joyce and Heaney’s treatment of personal…