Taking a Look at Ireland

By the mid-800s, the lands of Ireland, Scotland and England were attracting Viking settlers as well as raiders. Viking settlers founded Ireland’s first trading towns, including Dublin and Limerick. They used ports on the Irish coast to launch attacks within Ireland and against English

The book, “The Irish Way” by James R. Barrett is a masterpiece written to describe the life of Irish immigrants who went to start new lives in America after conditions at home became un-accommodative. Widespread insecurity, callous English colonizers and the ghost of great famine still lingering on and on in their lives, made this ethnic group be convinced that home was longer a home anymore. They descended in United States of America in large numbers. James R. Barrett in his book notes that these people were the first group of immigrants to settle in America. According to him, there were a number of several ethnic groups that have arrived in America. It was, however, the mass exodus of Irish people during and after the great

The first Viking attack on Ireland was in 820, and like the monk’s attacked in 793, the people of Ireland had no chance against the powerful Viking army. In the years following the first attack Viking’s gained leadership, and by 839, a brave Viking chieftain named Turges, declared himself king of Ireland. Turges sacrificed the Irish kings Armagh and Clonmacnois, to Thor, a Viking god.

The first and second reason the Irish immigrated was mostly caused by conditions after 1717 that began to grow uneasy. The British encouraged the people of Northern Ireland who were called Scotch-Irish to create a Catholic Ireland. Irish could not live with religious freedom. They were often challenged by the British

Violence, terror, suffering and death. The conflict that has been burning in Northern Ireland seems to be an unstoppable battle and it has flooded over the land of Northern Ireland. The struggle for power and the persistence of greed have fueled the raging fires of the opposing groups. The conflict in Northern Ireland has been discussed continually over the past few decades. Ever since the beginning of the “Troubles,” organizations have been scavenging to find a plan that will cease the violence. Throughout my research for this project, the questions of what are the main sources of conflict in Northern Ireland and why have they continued today guided me to many fascinating pieces of evidence that

The current information regarding Ireland Grace Johnson will walk through seven different assessments to further understand Ireland as a person. Ireland is a 21-year-old graduate student at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, South Dakota. She is a Caucasian American who was born and raised in Spencer, Iowa. Ireland graduated from Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa where she was awarded her Bachelors of Arts in Counseling Psychology. Ireland aspires to become a counselor and make a difference in her hometown. Ireland is currently single and focusing on her education. The following sections will walk through each assessment Ireland completed along with descriptions of each test, test scores, and what it means for Ireland.

Also the course of events is seen as a point of transition from the medieval days to a more modernistic period of Irish political history. The Fitzgerald rebellion showed Henry VIII the dangers of leaving Ireland with delegates being controlled from London. The demolition of the Kildare earldom and the Fitzgerald clan shows the reform in Ireland at this time and for the forth coming years. As well as this, looking at it from a positive aspect, outside of the Pale the Gaelic Irish were still preserving their own customs, maintaining their social system and keep their own language alive even after the rebellion which in turn would change the stability of Ireland in the years to

They had no money to push West and did not have the knowledge and skill to undertake large scale farming in the South.(6) Settling in the urban areas caused great crowding of the cities. The native inhabitants quickly chose to move out of the neighborhoods newly settled by Irish immigrants.(7) Their movement was influenced by the poverty of the newcomers; they did not want to live amongst the immigrant’s squalor. However, the Irish took this unwelcoming behavior in stride,they, “ . . . had a sense of identity and cohesion as a people oppressed by foreigners in their native land,”(8) which helped them to stay together during the rough transition to American life. Irish-Catholics lived in the slums,often cramming 4 families into a 1 family apartment. “Although the basement, attic and tar paper urban dwellings were bleak and depressing, at least American cities provided the company of their own misery-sharing people.”(9) Irish-Catholics depended greatly on their community and so it was a great relief to have support groups in their new home, even if the quality of life was extremely low.

To answer the demand would eventually lead to, “The Gaelic League, the dominant institution of the third revival,” (Hutchinson 484) with the second revival being the Irish Protestant/ Catholic liberation of 1829. With the loss of so many people, religion became a large part of the community. Such a devastating event left the Irish vulnerable to outside influences, especially the British. A powerful nation could easily push its culture, society, and government on a weak country like Ireland in the mid to late 1800s. To counter the British, religion took on a stronghold on Irish living. The Catholic Church, through the work of dedicated priests throughout the southern regions of Ireland, grew in popularity and even united small rural towns. This action rebuilt trust in communities and aided the most devastated of areas. The major Christian groups, Irish Protestants and Catholics, would be among the

1845, was the start of a long period of great trouble for the Irish people. Although through many struggles, the Irish prospered as a community. Starting in 1845 the Irish lost their main crop due to an unknown fungus then got uprooted to immigrate or died of disease. The Irish came to America searching for the American dream but only found hostility and unacceptance. This paper will cover troubles through the potato famine, the journey here and even how they were treated when they got to America.

Long history of Ireland is full of mythology and folklore. The ancient societies of Ireland, the Druids, and the Celts, who believed in the power of magic and many of these beliefs extended to the legends they nowadays told him over and over throughout the country. Stories of warriors with all the knowledge of the world, fairies who play jokes to the owners of estates and goblins hide the gold at the end of the rainbow add to the mysterious appeal of Ireland. The peoples of northern Europe who shared ideologies and policies based on druidism belonging to the Celtic tribes were grouped mainly on the island of Scotland, most of Britain and much of Ireland. (Harris, Shell, et al. “Top 10 Irish myths and legends.” History. Toptenz.net, 17 Mar. 2011. Web. 3 Feb. 2017.)

However, the same cannot be said about his descendants as some did force Ireland’s residents to abandon the religion. Many of the Irish stayed loyal to their religion and refused to surrender against the English, who were driving them against it. The two sides fought harshly, though the English won in the end. The English then foisted severe laws onto the Irish, along with dividing and giving land in Ireland away to Protestants, in England, to settle on. Not too long afterwards, Ireland’s separations became not only religious, but economic as well. The reason why is that the Protestant minority ruled most of the wealth, while the Roman Catholic Irish, triumphed over, fell into a state of indigence. This lasted for quite some time until 1798, which is when the French decided to support a rebellion taking place in Ireland against the English. England retaliated by officially adding Ireland to its territory by annexing it in 1801. An event such as this, can be seen as the climax in the clash between the Catholics and Protestants in

The first step in improving Scotland’s lobbying register is not to make it a high-regulation system but rather to ensure it first meets the criteria of a medium-regulation system. ERS Scotland has identified five key areas in which they would like to see improvements:

The Irish had the motivation to move when, in the mid-1840s, a potato blight, caused the famine. The “late blight”, which is, according to Britannica.com, a disease of potato and tomato plants that is caused by the water mold, Phytophthora infestans, that occurs in humid

Among the green rolling hills of Northern Ireland, lies a dark past, scarred by the violence, injustice, cruelty of war. For more than four centuries, Northern Ireland was abused by the British, which in turn unfolded a brutal sectarian civil war. Violence between Catholics and Protestants ravaged the country throughout the conflict, but the most brutal were concentrated between the late 1960’s and the early 1990’s. However, despite the centuries of bloodshed and struggle, forging peace was possible. The process was not easy and was frequently interrupted; yet peace was still achievable.