Republic of Ireland

Why should St. Patrick's Day be a holiday for everyone? Well this should be interesting because this is coming from a Students perspective. Here are my reasons for my argument on St. Patrick's Day. My first reason is for this is that me as a student I would like to spend extra time with my parents because, when we are home and they aren't you don't need to be home I know I would rather be at school. If your parent's are home you could have family time, and go on a small vacation. If this were…

Long long ago under the sea was a star named patrick. He was showered with love everyday when he was born, patrick was the “cutest kid alive” says his mother. Everything was amazing everyday was full with love and fun events. Patrick had his mom and dad by his side if he needed help or was just hungry. His first birthday came around and Patrick had it all until his house was bombed in a war. His mom and dad where separated from him and he was just in his crib crying for them to come back, but…

Have you ever thought your yourself, is my house part of me? Or do you hear loud noises banging in your house? In the story House Taken Over by Julio Cortazar was a story about two siblings that live in a big wealthy house. Throughout the story the narrator talks a lot about fantasy in the house. Going into the story the first, the narrator talks about marrying his sister to keep the house in their family. Another thing the narrator talked about was the noises coming out of there house. “...…

Home is where the family gathers for a good time. Home is where students return from school for a good cooked meal. “Home is where my heart lies and where I want to be”, my mother would often say to me when she thinks about Jamaica. How she longs to return home. Home is defined as a place where someone permanently lives. So where is your home? Is home where you currently live or is it the place where your memories always bring you back to and where your heart yearns to return? Even though a…

‘He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor Macleod. He is immortal.’ Despite tanking at the majority of global box offices and bringing in only approximately $13 million, Russell Mulcahy’s Sci-Fi/Fantasy film Highlander (1986) soon developed a cult following. This lead to the production of five reboots, two TV series, an animated series, movie and flash movie series, along with ten…

Though not a dominant language in Ireland, it would be false to state that “the Irish language is now dying” (Hindley 248). In fact, the Irish language is a unique example of an endangered language that has been able to survive near extinction. While it is a “miracle that Irish has survived at all as a language,” the credit for its survival can be given “to those who had the courage and the tenacity to hold on to their native tongue in such terrible circumstances” (Great Famine, par. 10). These…

The Legacy of Owain Glyndŵr: Redeemer of the Welsh English conquest of foreign territory began long before the age of colonization within the British Isles themselves. History focuses primarily on the English point of view towards their acquisitions because little text survives to this day from the subjected lands. Due to its colonization, the ancient country of Wales witnessed the rise of abuses, taxes, and occupation in the late fourteenth century. Consequently, opposition developed towards…

Northern Ireland from the UK and to join with the Irish republic. They carried out many bombings during a period colloquially known as the Troubles. Their prime target was members of the British Army and officers of the Irish national police force. They fought a guerrilla warfare against the army and police, rarely confronting them “head on” but using surprise attacks and car bombs. The IRA was an incredibly strong and brutal paramilitary group vying for an Independent Northern Ireland who's…

nationalists regard the Rising as the most important event in twentieth-century Irish history. Without it, Irish politics would have been shaped by the moderate constitutional nationalism of John Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party, and southern Ireland may have remained part of the British Empire for much of the twentieth-century. One of the driving forces behind the rebellion was Patrick Pearse, an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist. He became…

Palestinians over territorialism and the establishment of a Jewish land and that of “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland between the largely Catholic Nationalists and the majority Protestant Unionists have many key similarities. Both “Northern Ireland the State of Israel emerged out of war, the breakup of empires, and international agreements.”1 (ESEP 93)The main phase of both the Northern Ireland conflict and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict occurred around mid 1960s to late 1990s and both had…