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The Republic of Ireland cannot be adequately examined without including the large role played by the Catholic Church in political development and policy making. The Catholic Church has validated itself as an influential institution since the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169. The original intent of the invasion served to spread the papacy, and with Ireland, the Church would come to achieve arguably the most Catholic country to exist in the world. The Republic of Ireland evolved through many centuries

The role of the theatre during the Irish Literary Revival was central to Irish cultural nationalism and the political dynamics at the start of the 20th century. As a playwright and a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, Lady Gregory created the backbone of the group that drove the Irish cultural identity towards a more nationalist outlook. Yet as an Irish nationalist, her participation in political causes was often muted; not because of her political views, but because of her gender. Though Lady Gregory

Quite often, people are eager to proclaim whether they are a democrat or a republican, yet many of these people use these political terms because they have been told to, rather than actually resonating with the beliefs of said political party. Preferably, voters should research issues most important to them and figure out their own stances, then commit to the political party with the most similar viewpoint by examining the party’s platform from a reliable source. Political parties are voluntary,

James Joyce's short story "Eveline" is set in Dublin, Ireland during the turn of the 20th century. The suffering was of the Irish was immense during this time in history, due to the struggle of against the English occupation of Ireland. An observation made about Dublin during the early 1900's was that “the Irish capital is paralysed by Catholicism, by the English imperialism, by grave poverty and social injustice” (Boyson). Ireland was still reeling from the famine the occurred fifty years earlier

While the War of Independence was the first time Ireland would be separated from England in over 100 years, Ireland and England have had a parallel history for far longer than that. Since the Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland passed in the parliaments of both England and Ireland in 1800, Ireland has been considered a legal part of the United Kingdom. Prior to this unification by law, Ireland had been under some sort of British control since the feudal rule under the King of Britain started

Other members of the GAA in Dublin were also badly wounded during the Rising and were shown a leniency of sorts by the British Authorities in Ireland. Frank Henderson later claimed "Cathal Brugha had been so severely wounded during the fighting in the South Dublin Union that the British authorities had released him believing him to be physically incapable of further activities."24 While those involved in the Rising were interned at camps such as Frongoch or imprisoned at places such as Dartmoor

This analysis will look at how historians have attempted to explain the relationship between constitutional and physical force nationalism/republicanism. In the book Irish Peasants Violence and Political Unrest 1780 – 1914 editors Samuel Clark and James S. Donnelly Jr. suggest, in the opening paragraph, that poverty related rebellion in Ireland became commonplace during the late 18th and early 19th century that led to the ideas of a separatist republic. These events gave rise to, at first, a constitutional

In Heaney’s “Punishment”, his poem remarks specifically on the case of a young bog person, known as the Windeby girl, and its barbarous nature and the connection to many of the atrocities that were carried out upon Catholic girls at the time. The Windeby girl was an archaeological find in Germany in 1952; she was said to be an adulteress, and she was shaved, “blindfolded and drowned in the bog” (Lange). The Windeby girl was said to be found next to her “lover”, although this is speculated. Heaney

There was significant development of Ireland as an independent country in the first few decades of the twentieth century. Through the examination of Synge’s Playboy of the Western World, Shaw’s O’flaherty, V.C., and Yeats’ Easter 1916 and Sixteen Dead Men readers are able to better understand the violence that allowed for that development to be possible within Ireland at the time. Playboy of the Western World, published in 1907, is a playwright in which John Millington Synge attempts to define relevant

James Joyce and Frank O’Connor are two Irish authors who embrace the theme of nostalgia throughout their works to show this important characteristic of Irish Identity. Nostalgia can be seen in James Joyce’s “The Dead” and Frank O’Connor’s “The Majesty of the Law”. The characters in both stories reflect on the way Irish life used to be. Each of these authors use characters in their short stories to show how nostalgia plays an important role in Irish life. James Joyce and Frank O’Connor express nostalgia