Michael Collins Research Paper

The Irish people left Ireland and immigrated to America to enjoy a better life, get away from the poverty and starvation that they were faced with in Ireland due to the potato famine. They face all kinds of discrimination and were forced to take the worst types of jobs, but they never gave up and kept fighting for their freedom. The Irish were brave, courageous, and hardworking and made it possible for all Irish to live happy and free lives in America.

This culminated in the Rebellion of 1798, lead by Wolfe Tone and the Society of United Irishmen, in which Hugh and Jimmy participated: “The road to Sligo. A spring morning. 1798. Going into battle” (445). But, as these characters soon discovered, the rebellion failed resulting in large executions and the passing of the Act of Union in 1800. This piece of legislation, effective from 1 January 1801, brought Ireland under the direct rule of the British Crown.

In the first place, my maternal grandfather instilled a pride and understanding of my Irish roots. Specifically, he brought me over to Belfast to learn and experience the culture. At the time, the hostility between the Protestants and Catholics was evident. Additionally, I saw people living under the threats of terrorism and bombing, propaganda graffiti, and a city under a police state. Similarly, I witnessed families torn apart because a mother was one

After the first world war the leaders of europe came together to discuss the boundaries of europe. British rule decided to separate ireland into two sides. North Ireland was created when the british government of Ireland Act in 1920 divided Ireland into two areas; the Irish Free State and the Northern Ireland Roman Catholics, who made up around one-third of the population of Northern Ireland, were largely opposed to the separation. The British took over , but only after many revolts and riots against them from the people of ireland. In 1969 the IRA (Irish Republican Army) was formed. They were a Catholic Irish nationalist group that used guerrilla tactics like bombings and assassinations to oppose British rule and oppression in Ireland. Their main goal was to fight the british that took over their home. The IRA would Fight using guerilla and terrorist tactics including bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, punishment beatings, extortion, smuggling, and robberies. But over time the IRA became more of a dangerous militia then patriots defending their home.

Stereotypes in the past had a significant impact on the Irish people. Stereotypes such as the religion of the Irish: Catholicism. Catholicism brought new holidays: Ash Wednesday and lent. English-raised Americans were scared of these. Leading to the names “vampire” and baby killer” for the Irish’s belief of wine and bread to represent Jesus Christ: Transubstantiation. Then, the Irish were compared to apes and equivalent to the blacks in the South. Irish were now seen as inferior to those of English-decent. Not only were the women unmarried, all the men were young and single. It was assumed any single woman staying in a tenement was sleeping with all the men. Leading to names “Bridget” and “Paddy” being derogatory for the Irish women and man. Whereas in reality, they were street smart and independent. Traditions were twisted into stereotypes, such as the Irish’s “pub-culture.” The men would drink before and after work in order to relax themselves for the day, but was depicted as alcoholism.

Albeit McGee disagreed with the new Irish party in Canada, he didn’t vocally admit it too often (Burns 21). In fact, he was denied to go to the London Conference due to his lack of power and popularity (Burns 22). It is believed that Welhan assassinated McGee so that he couldn’t advocate against Irish parties; however, McGee didn’t have the power that he had twenty years

The Easter Uprising of 1916 was an event that happened at the tail end of a long list of events that would forever change Ireland. The Uprising or Rising, as some call it, took place mostly in Dublin but was felt throughout Ireland. The point was to gain independence from Great Britain who had ruled Ireland for the past couple hundred years. At the turn of the 19th century England believed that Ireland had too much independence and made the Act of Union. “The result was the Act of Union of 1801: the Irish parliament voted itself out of existence and England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales were formally politically unified for the first time” (Hegarty 2). Around the time of the First World War, Ireland began

• 18 January 1944: Paul John Keating born in St Margaret’s Hospital, Paddington. ( being born at the end of ww2, he great knowledge of it. , he was and is befuddled how good people could not stop Hitler • • • • 1950-57, MOTIVATION: • Helped father with the letterboxing and polling booths, and handing out leaflets in bankstown, during labors split of 1950, “doing this he felt a sense of the palce(of the political game), and a cohesion of doing it” ABC episode 1, he also states how his father always told him that the liberal party, couldn’t do polotics for anything, • • • • • 17 January 1958: joins Bankstown branch of the ALP on the eve of his 15th birthday.

“The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out ("Billy Collins Quotes").” This was written by poet Billy Collins. He was a class clown in the schoolhouse of American poetry. Most of his work was not noticed until 1990 when he wrote questions about angels which was selected for the national poetry series (Cunningham "Billy Collins" 2017).

Charity worker Misha Collins is yet another example who proves humans are good through his actions and speech. In this excerpt from looktothestars.org, it states that, "In response they created Random Acts for the purpose of doing good works in the world...". Misha takes time out his life to create programs for the main reason of helping people in need. He cares for many who he has not met and is doing his part to help in any way he can. Found on Instagram.com, one of Misha's posts says, " 'I asked people coming to the convention to bring a backpack with some donations we could deliver, and in total, you all donated almost three full car loads of supplies...' ". By using his fame and resources, Misha is able to reach out to large groups

Irish American’s had immigrated to the United States in a time of need. The United States weren’t the only ones in need the Irish came to America looking for a “New World.” The Irish left Ireland due to lack of food, their crops weren’t growing. Therefore they wanted a place that they wouldn’t have to be worried about starving. Along with moving to the United States they came to a more racist and not so welcoming place. They were very disrespected for being an immigrant and standing out. Their beliefs and ways of living their life were discriminated against.

Macdonald set up a Committee to examine these charges where he was able to save face with his charisma by stating that “political parties habitually received substantial contributions from their wealthy supporters…there was no real indictable offence” because it was a well-known practice. However, the legal and ethical damage was done because his crime specifically involved accepting funds from a man he was negotiating a contract with on behalf of the Canadian interest, an offence that is difficult to defend in the eyes of the law, and the public. The telegraphic evidence of the Macdonald scandal was published and people were aware of the betrayal, however, Macdonald informed Governor General Lord Dufferin that “he no longer enjoyed a parliamentary majority and therefore,

Ireland has always had religious problems between, Pagans, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish people. Ireland has always been a place of interest in English eyes so Ireland was continually concord over and over by the English and the currency, traditions and religions changed with every English King, Queen or Irish Rebel. Between 1641 and 1691 Oliver Cromwell changed everything, Irish Catholics, Pagans and Jews were killed or shipped off to be slaves. The influence to immigrate was very strong, their options were to go to a new world of which they knew no one and had nothing, be killed for your religion, or be gathered up and shipped away as a slave. It was a hard decision they all were forced to

In 1809, to reward him for his success academically, Peel’s father bought him the Parliamentary seat of Cashel in County Tipperary (Simkin, 1997). Also in 1809, at the age of twenty-one, he entered the House of Commons(Simkin, 1997). Peel used this to his advantage working his way up to higher

Irish independence has been fought for a long time ever since the British occupied Ireland in 1172. The King of England invaded and controlled Ireland. The invasion led to religious and territorial conflicts. There was an effort to create a church comparable to the Church of England in the 1500s. Catholics who live in Ireland were against the idea and a conflict for independence has emerged (Arena & Arrigo, 2004). The suppression of Irish nationalism by the British in the 20th century led to the creation of martyrs for the cause led by the Irish Republican Army (Combs, 2011).