Republic of Ireland

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…

subsequent provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) both existed based on British policies and involvement related to Irish Independence. The IRA of the early 1900s “fought an insurgency that successfully challenged British rule in the whole of Ireland” (Gregory, 2010), this challenge resulted in an agreement granting Irish Independence in 1921. Independence was agreed upon with a caveat that the 6 northern counties be retained by the British. This agreement resulted in uneasy peace through…

Dear cousin Maeve, (History and Geography) I heard the news about the Lusitania and how it sank on the seventh of May, and I know it happened near the other side of Ireland, how are the people reacting back home in Mayo? Also, how is Aunt Kathy? I, on the other hand, am not doing as well. I have news that makes me feel sick every time I think about it. Roger and I will be heading overseas to help France in the war. France has suffered lots of casualties from the Oise-Aisne campaign, along with…

Ireland was founded more than 5,000 years ago. The country has many places where things of their history and culture are seen. The national parks and other areas are major locations where tourists visit to learn more of the country's history. Ireland is full of ancient areas with historical significance. The journey of Ireland’s history begins in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, known for its history and heritage. From Dublin, the scenic route takes you to Wicklow Mountains National Park to…

“The Ireland which we have dreamed of would be the home of a people who valued material wealth only as the basis of a right living, of a people who were satisfied with frugal comfort and devoted their leisure to the things of the spirit” one author said (Hennessy). This couldn’t be more evident than through the life of Eamon de Valera, the most important person in Ireland history. Ironically, Ireland wasn’t his birthplace, as you would assume; instead, de Valera was born and raised in 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…

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…