Ireland

The Great Ireland Potato Famine Effects The Great Ireland Potato Famine was a horrible event that had many lasting effects. Some of these effects were starvation, disease, poverty, emigration, and lost traits. These effects plagued mostly western Ireland, but had an overall effect on all of Ireland. Many of the traditional ways of economics and society changed drastically because of the famine. Many people also blamed the British for letting the famine get so bad. These effects will be discussed

unfortunately for the Irish it was not the case. Ireland during the nineteenth century was identified to be a religious-oriented, in which Catholicism was important to Irish national identity. Because ethnicity is partly based on religion, during the nineteenth-century majority of America was Protestant. The Irish immigrants underwent ethnical and racial discrimination especially those that were Irish Catholics. Based on their transmitted social status from Ireland as deprived immigrants, the Irish were the

between the Protestant British and Catholic Irish, Ireland was relatively peaceful for the next century, other than a rebellion led by Theobald Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen in 1798. 30,000 people were killed in this rebellion, which laid the groundwork for the separatist republicanism to come and caused the Act of Union of 1800 to be passed, closing the Irish Parliament in Dublin and giving Protestant London full control over Catholic Ireland. The population quadrupled during the peaceful century

In Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”, Ireland is not constituted of people but statistics (296). The projector is invested in the computation of its population. He counts and classifies Irish bodies. The emphasis, however, does not stay on the bodies but on a quantitative transmutation of them—on all that takes to efface them. This paper charts the implications of this transmutation. The projector uses calculation to advance an economic circulation that will produce considerable wealth. The guise

Migration has fundamentally changed the nature of Irish society. Ireland has recently become a country of immigration; nonetheless the changes have been rapid and have changed the country significantly both north and south of the boarder. It is one of a number of peripheral European countries which has transformed from having a lengthy history of emigration, to becoming a recipient of substantial inward migration. In Ireland today, migration “Is one of the topics under discussion” (Gilmartin &White

Northern Ireland has been, for as long as it has been a country, a deeply divided society. A society rife with ethno political conflict between the Nationalist Catholics (who want a united Ireland) and the Loyalist Protestants (who are loyal to “the crown” and thus wish to remain a part of the United Kingdom). This division cumulated in what is now known as “the Troubles”. This conflict has spanned over three decades, from (debatably) 1969 until the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, and

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

potatoes as basic rations aboard their ship”(Chapman). From then on, the expansion of potatoes grew, slowing spreading to other European countries such as Spain, Italy and Ireland. Especially in Ireland, often potato has been the only food and many Irish survived on those and milk alone. “What the eight million people who lived in Ireland at the time did not realize was that the potato crops would fail for the next four years and that the disaster would lead to the deaths and the emigration of millions

For Gerald of Wales, religion was one of the most essential aspects of being a civilized human being. Therefore, when he wrote, The History and Topography of Ireland, he portrayed its inhabitants as subhuman and barbaric during his apparent travels to Ireland. As a colonizer, Gerald picked a far away place in which many had not been to, in order to establish them as the “other”. Unfortunately, for Gerald, he may have ridiculed the Irish for their lifestyle conveyed in his writing, but his exploitation

troubles of Northern Ireland The Troubles of Northern Ireland has a long history. King Henry VIII brought Ireland under British rule during the ninth century. Some hundred years later, King James I sent settlers to the northern part of Ireland, Ulster. Those settlers were protestants, while most of the Irish were catholics. During the years, the tension between these two religious groups led to the division of Ireland. This happened in the start of the 1920s. Most of Ireland was now free from British