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Writer Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry, Northern Ireland, 1939. The beginnings of the Second World War therefore aligned with his upbringing and he was witness to conflict from a young age. In addition, Northern Ireland was a divided country which saw disunity within between protestants and catholics but also unionists and loyalists, with unionists calling for independence against British rule. Requiem for the Croppies is a poem published in Death of a Naturalist (1966) which primarily deals

his thesis will examine the role of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising and the impact the Easter Rising had on the GAA in Dublin after April 1916. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the background of the GAA in Dublin from it's formation in 1886 up to 1914, including the nationalit aspect of the Association at that time. The formation of the Irish Volunteers will also be examined in great detail, as will the involvement of the members of the GAA

‘‘One of the first functions of a poem, after all, is to satisfy a need in the poet’’ (Seamus Heaney) In his essay Poetry, Language and Identity: A Note on Seamus Heaney, Kearney writes that Heaney ‘‘has been criticised for refusing to adopt a fixed unambiguous position, for not nailing his colours to the mast, particularly about the national question (i.e. his attitude to his native North)’’. Although not disputed, Heaney’s poetry maintains an objectivity that neither condemns nor accepts the turbulent

The text under consideration is a letter written by Mr Nicholas Cummins, a magistrate of Cork, on 17 December 1846 imploring the Duke of Wellington to be aware of the precarious conditions in which Irish people are living and to start acting. This period of “mass starvation” is mostly known and called as “The Great Irish Potato Famine”. In line with the previous we could say therefore that this text is first addressed to the Duke of Wellington by taking advantage of his Irish origins but also keeping

Martin McGuiness, the current Education Secretary, has openly admitted to being an ex-IRA member. Also Gerry Adams, a leader of Sinn Fein is believed (by Unionists) to have close connections with the IRA. There are very recently problems with area boundaries. In September 2001, Catholic families were walking to school through a Protestant area. This caused problems for Protestants

The Easter Uprising of 1916 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

War, oppression, and massacres. All three took place in English-led Ireland during the Victorian Era, and all three were caused by a few differences in beliefs on how to worship the same God. Mainly due to the evangelization of St. Patrick, the Irish people were devoutly Catholic while their English rulers followed a Protestant Church called the Anglican Church of England. Since the Anglican Church was so dominant in England, the Irish Catholics received very poor treatment from the Protestants in

Irish Nationalists attempted to establish continuity with what they believed to be appropriate or suitable aspects of Irish history and culture. These attempts lead to both the revival and invention of a culturally distinct Irish heritage not associated with British rule in order to justify a sense of nationhood and to support the Irish struggle for Independence (Hobsbawm in Laurence, A p176) (Laurence, A p.160). Whilst there is no single definition of Irish Nationalism, as the various groups and

Near the turn of the twentieth century, Ireland had a crisis of identity. In 1890, the most influential Irish Nationalist politician and champion of home rule, Charles Stewart Parnell, was denounced by the Catholic Church of Ireland over the Divorce Crisis, something the church saw as an immoral affair. The issue of Parnell’s morality split the Irish public’s opinion on what was fundamentally most important: Religion or State Freedom. The political progress that was made towards a freer Ireland came

The nativist social and cultural revival preached antagonism towards the social and cultural forms of Great Britain. In this way, the Irish language and literary movement can be seen to have not only encouraged Irish nationalism and separatism, but also fed the flames of Anglophobia which can thus be interpreted as a catalyst in inspiring the imaginations for those who later led the 1916 Easter Rising. The revival of Irish language and literature had a notable effect on the course of Irish politics