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After the discovery of the New World and the introduction of the potato to Europe, the Irish population found their miracle crop. The potato saved and doubled a once dwindling population to nine million people. Three of the nine million relied on the potato for their sole source of food and by 1846, crisis fell over Ireland. The potato crop contracted Blight, a disease brought over to Ireland accidentally from America. The disease killed all the crops and lead to the great famine of Ireland which

Though most Irish emigrants left their homes in search of a better lives free from persecution, those who settled in the United States typically found equal levels of persecution yet, chose to remain stateside because of the opportunities for work and the new-found sense of community among Irish immigrants in the United States. The first immigrant to enter the United States through Ellis Island, Annie Moore, was a 15-year-old from County Cork. Since the colonial times, Irish immigrants have been

upon years the British have possessed political control over the people of Northern Ireland. I will make it obvious to you that the strong Catholic religion throughout Northern Ireland has forced the people to oppose British control. As most of you know, the official and majority religion of Great Britain is that of Protestantism. And the deeply faithful Irish have always felt that they were looked down upon by the British for refusing to practice their form of

Irish Diaspora and its Musical Consequences In 1845 Ireland was troubled with the devastating famine known as the Great Potato Famine, which ended up destroying 75 percent of all their potato crops and starving millions of people (Madding). In order to survive many were forced to move away in hopes of starting new. Many fled to Scotland, England, South America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The famine brought many changes to the Irish culture, people, and music as well as

This essay discusses modernisation in Irish society and how Irish social policy has evolved and developed from it. By definition, this modernisation in Ireland was the transformation from a traditional agrarian society to a secular industrial society, in other words Irish modern society is Ireland industrial society. Focusing on industrialism, we see how Ireland became today’s modernised Ireland through economic organisation. The earliest social policy in Ireland was the Poor Law, under which workhouses

The English were making the Irish poor to force them into the protestant church. Under the Penal Laws the Irish Catholics were deprived them of any right to be represented in local government, to vote, or to even own land. Under these harsh conditions it is no wonder woman and children of the time bumbled around town just to find some way to survive as a catholic while protestantism is being shoved down one 's thought. Jonathan Swift wrote A

movements in American History is the Irish Immigration. During the 18th century the Irish slowly began their migration to America. Centuries of oppression from Protestant English rule had forced them to live very poor lives under strict rules, in some cases having to renounce their Catholic beliefs and having to abandon their Gaelic

The Irish first began to start immigrating into the United States around the earlier to mid 1800s, roughly 1820. Like most immigrants, they were not treated fairly and stereotypes were assigned to them and they were also discriminated against. Four main stereotypes were assigned to the Irish: catholic, race, inferior, and drunk. The Americans, at the time, did not like that the Irish were catholics because they thanked that they were brainwashed by the papacy. Also they would often times call the

description of the conquered vast territory of the Ireland lands by the English, and how the wealthy protestant English families managed the captured land by abusing the Irish catholic. Accordingly, injustice is experienced by the Irish, as they are prevented from receiving an education and holding prominent positions. The Irish are arranged in a state of oppression by the way of the British; for instance, they are forced to remain in a starving condition. Moreover, the

In Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal” he satirizes Irish politicians, the maniacal ambition of the wealthy, English tyranny and the squalid living conditions Irish citizens were living in. Through the satirizing, Swift hides his inner feelings about the Age of Enlightenment and the exploitation of Ireland. Due to the suppression during the Restoration Period, Swift through his satirizing secretly advises for Ireland’s self-determination as it essential to prevent starvation and drastic situations