Republic of Ireland

What is home? By dictionary definition, a home is a person's permanent living space. By my definition, a home is where you feel secure, it’s where your belongings are, it’s where you make your childhood memories that last a lifetime. If one understands and has a place they call home, they would know that there is no concrete description of one. The answer to the question of where my home is should be quite simple yet a question so elementary always leaves me confused. I get asked this question…

Not Just Nessie Scotland and the rest of Great Britain are known for their rich histories in many areas, including a vast amount of fairy tales and folklore. From the legend of King Arthur to the fairies in Shakespeare’s works, there are countless whimsical mythologies from all parts of the United Kingdom. Scotland, however, having the unicorn as its national animal, may be home to some of the most peculiar. Many tales from Scotland might seem as if they are useless and insignificant stories…

What Is Home? For some people, home is the place they return to each night after they end their day at school or at work. Home is the place that has four walls, a roof, a kitchen, bathroom, and living room where they can sit down and put their meet up in front of the television as they relax from a long, stressful day. For other people, home is cannot be found in a specific physical structure or geographical location, and is, instead, a feeling of comfort and safety that a certain place…

Scottish music is very unique due to the instruments used such as the bag pipes, fiddle, clarsach, accordion, guitar, drums, piano, bodhran, trump/jaws harp, mandolins, banjos, gut and wire strung guitar, harmonica and wooden flutes. All these instruments are used in Scottish music even though some may be out dated or adopted these instruments make Scottish music distinguishable from all the rest. The bag pipes are a difficult instrument to learn because first you need to learn the chanter.…

Queen Elizabeth issued a proclamation to Lord Barrymore in Ireland to “hang Harpers, wherever found, and destroy their instruments” in an attempt to gain control over Ireland. The power of Irish princes eroded away by increasing pressure from the British. This ended the patronage of Ireland’s harpers towards the end of the 16th century. In an attempted to gain control over Ireland, laws were enacted by the British Crown making it illegal for the Irish to speak their own…

Different people have ways to keep themselves steady. People can do this by looking for love with someone, or having an unbreakable friendship. These examples can both be referred to as a home. When you look up “Home” in a dictionary, the definition is a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household (Dictionary). However, home means much more than just a structure of walls. Home is when you’re with people who make you happy, love you, and…

“Up until the 1960s, Ireland was a country where change was rejected in favour [sic] of traditional patterns of life and old allegiances. In the Republic of Ireland in the south, the main political parties had their origins in the civil war between the pro- and anti-treaty factions” (Harris 150). Ireland is a land rich with history and culture, the customs that are still in practice date as far back as most can remember. Several customs have moved from country to country as the Irish move from…

Our big blue world is dying and we are the cause. Human beings are wasteful creatures: people overstock their fridge with food that they will just toss out because it was left in their too long, some countries ( the USA) won’t invest into renewable energy because they are afraid of losing their oily money, then we make things that are more harmful than good like Whole Foods already peeled organic oranges that come in a decent size clear plastic container that cost about six dollars. Humans take…

Bill Hickey is my Great Uncle on my mom’s mother’s side. My grandmother and her siblings grew up in castledermot, county Kildare Ireland. The Irish Parliament met in Castledermot on 18 June 1264 for the first time. The oldest window in western europe that is still intact can be found in Castledermot from the ruins of a Franciscan Monastery. The current population is 885 people. Bill grew up in kildare and many of his songs are about Kildare. He typically reminisces on the old days of Kildare in…

execute his wittiness in a style that was practically unique in collected works of writing. In “A Modest Proposal”, Swift successfully uses hypocrisy, sarcasm, and exaggeration to expose his infuriation of politicians, papists, and the poor citizens of Ireland. In “A Modest Proposal”, Jonathan Swift wrote a pamphlet in protest to the cruel treatment of the…