Republic of Ireland

Intro A Modest Proposal was written by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The “proposal” begins by dwelling in the poor and sad lives of the lower class Irish who tend to spend all their time working to feed their large families that seem to continuously grow. As a solution to the problem, which seems to be more than poverty but the attitudes that families have toward one another but also the abuse of power and greed from the upper class. Those higher up in society seem to only watch in disgust from a…

that Swift proposes for this issue that he conveys to the reader that the children should be eaten by the rich. The main issue of A Modest Proposal is the greed of the wealthy, the incompetence of the politicians, and the poverty of the citizens. Ireland is, as this point in…

“Between 1845 and 1855 more than 1.5 million adults and children left Ireland to seek refuge in America” (Costly). The multitude of individuals seeking assistance from a country, which was not yet their own, is significant. What could motivate a diaspora of this magnitude? For the Irish, the nineteenth century famine lit the fuse for immigration, which, in turn, affected the lives of those living in Ireland. James Mahoney, an Irish artist, captured the hardships and destructiveness of the…

completed. Some, like the Duke of Ormond who led the Royalist troops, were banned for life from stepping foot in Ireland for taking arms against the Parliamentary troops . The great majority of Irish Protestants however were able to enjoy the great tracts of land that were now there’s after the transplantation of the Irish. They also had no desire for more English Protestants to arrive in Ireland to take away some of the wealth they had just begun to earn again after the long years of fighting .…

Just as with Catholic schools at the time, the Irish in Britain were also segregated from the general British population through the establishment of Irish working-class ghettos. “John Foster has described the existence of ghettoized Irish communities and anti-Irish hostility as a significant factor in the assertion of political and industrial authority over the indigenous working-class in the mid-nineteenth century.” (Hickman, 17). Throughout the nineteenth century, the Irish in Britain were…

a 45 year old male Christian immigrant from Ireland that came to settle in Canada to start up a farming business. Alphonsus migrated to Canada due to the potato famine in Ireland. But, what was the cause of the potato famine? The great famine or the Ireland potato famine was caused by a potato disease; Phytophthora infestans better known as potato blight. This infection damaged crops throughout Europe during the 1840s to around the 1860s. However Ireland was the most affected as one third of the…

signed the Declaration of Independence (Robert ‘25)”. Between 1800-1844 there were 8 million people in Ireland, during the same years, 600,000 left for America. Many of the immigrants were poor, unskilled Irish-Catholics from southern and western Ireland. Through 1841-1850, 780,700 people emigrated from Ireland for America and Canada. Today, 40 million Americans can trace their lineage back to Ireland. Starvation, religious discrimination, and disease forced Irish immigrants out of their home…

In the early 1700s, poverty struck Ireland physically and spiritually. High taxes, overpopulation, drought, and the famous potato famine drove the Irish out of their normal life. An Anglo-Irish, Johnathan Swift, journeyed through Ireland and witnessed the poverty-stricken conditions the Irish were living in. However, no soul was brave enough to advocate for change. This ultimately angered Swift and incited him to craft “A Modest Proposal.””. Taking on a persona of an impersonal and statistical…

poverty crisis under the guise of a logistically sound yet ethically decrepit solution. Drawing attention to the issue through the proposal’s sheer absurdity, Swift constructs a targeted criticism of England’s apathetic attitude towards the state of Ireland under the guise of presenting cannibalism as a cure for poverty and overpopulation. By adopting a detached, high-minded tone towards his outrageous proposition, Swift mocks the apathy of England towards the Ireland’s dire poverty issue and…

The Irish people were faced with many problems in their home countries of Ireland that caused them to migrate to the United States. The first wave of people that migrated to the United States in the nineteenth century were Protestants, political refugees, and Catholic peasants. Most of these people were farmers that had their land taken from them, or their landlords no longer leased the land because of an interest in grazing. According to the textbook A Different Mirror: A History of…