The Emerald Isle

magic - love, dreams, youth, healing and prosperity. Use your Cup or Cauldron, filled with water, in your ritual tonight. Dedicate nine apples to Her and set them adrift in a body of water. Meditate on traveling the silver moon path to the Fortunate Isles and ask Her blessing. Dance near water. Swim. Visit a well and dedicate it to Her for the night. If you have a sword and scabbard dedicated to Her, tonight you work with the healing scabbard. If you have a clear quartz ball, tonight She will…

that the white men wanted him to, and turns to violence as his revenge. After the accidental attack of his love, Sarah, by Secret Service men, and her ultimate death, Coalhouse puts his focus on the injustice he was subjected to and blows up the Emerald Isle Firehouse, killing four volunteers in his fit of rage. Regrettably, being a different skin tone or speaking another language was not a benefit during this time, but instead was a heavy burdened that caused many to fail in their attempts to…

They are seen as as poets who reflected the consciousness of Ireland in their respective eras. However, their approaches to expressing and refiguring the important moments, myths, and themes the of Emerald Isle were vastly different. Yeats, a formalist poet, was deeply concerned with the way his poetry and other works would contribute to his legacy. His 1919 poem, “A Prayer for My Daughter,” imagines how Yeats’s daughter might navigate the obstacles she…

an Island that is separated from Great Britain by the Irish Sea. The country is divided between Ireland and Northern Ireland, which belongs to the United Kingdom. The largest river in Ireland is the River Shannon. Ireland is also known as the Emerald Isle, because of its vast hills and plains of green. The climate consists of mild winters, cool summers and consistently humid with overcast about half of the year. The natural resources of the country include natural gas, copper, lead, zinc,…

history is very convoluted and long, yet for Ireland, a very important part of its history lies in the interactions between it and Britain. Over the centuries, there has been much repression, conflict and animosity that to this day ravages the Emerald Isle. These interactions can be looked all the way back to 1169 when the Normans, who later became modern day Brits, invaded and two years later captured the island (Cronin 2001:11). Thus begun a very turbulent history between two groups that never…

blue of the sky gives way to the purples and gold’s that shine from everything. Wonderful shadows frolic from the walls of jasper’s green. Everything is fluid radiating the light of all kinds of precious stones. The sapphire, the quartz, beautiful emeralds, all add their beauty to the waltz of swirling color. The onyx, the yellowish-green sapphire, topaz, the amethyst, and prisms emit a blinding light. “Where am I,” he asks over and over again? Every time he asks, more colors burst into view.…

What’s my complete heritage is it only one or a couple? Heritage has never been an endeavor I have looked into and because of this I know very little about my family’s origin. My grandmother is originally from Ireland and the only reason she ever came to America is because she found a man she really loved. That is the extent of all I know about my heritage and family history on that side. I will now try to explain the way of the Irish people and the traditions they uphold, as well as some…

Research Paper The 1960’s hippie counter culture movement involved a variety of social concerns and beliefs. The hippies’ primary tenet was that life was about being happy, not about what others thought you should be. Their “If it feels good, do it” attitudes included little forethought nor concern for the consequences of their actions. Along with this lifestyle came many musical advances and styles. Psychedelic Rock became very popular and no band influenced this music type more than Jefferson…

The eleventh episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses "The Sirens," finds its Homerian equivalent in the twelfth book of the Odyssey, as Odysseus is leaving Kirke’s island. Kirke takes it upon herself to inform Odysseus of the many sea perils that he will encounter on his way home, specifically warning him of the Sirens, whose beauty has the power to bewitch men. Odysseus then recounts Kirke’s message to his crew. Odysseus instructs his men to tie him to the mast, telling them to ignore whatever he may…

The Early Seventeenth Century of the English East India Company in the Spice Archipelago The English Company's first interest lay in the Malay Archipelago and the Spice islands, although from the start it faced considerable competition from Dutch merchants. The fleet of the first voyage (1600) visited Acheen in Sumatra and Bantam in Java; in both places the commander, James Lancaster, obtained permission to trade and to establish a factory. He also visits the Moluccas. The fleet of the second…