Northern Ireland Assembly

The main idea about all of the articles about Ireland in the book are about recent history in Ireland. It is about a time period called the Troubles, which its roots go all the way back to around 1170. The Troubles started with Henry II declaring himself the king of Ireland as well as England. It was bad because this was against the wishes of the native Irish people. In 1609, King James I offered land to Scottish people, which was taken from the Irish. When the Scottish got there, there was a religious

With the whole world watching Scotland take their chance to become independent, many were shocked at Ireland’s vote to reject this independence. With a 55% vote, Scotland has decided to stay a part of the United Kingdom. On September 18, 2014, Scotland held a vote to decide if they were to become an independent country or continue being a part of the United Kingdom. The people have spoken, and they have spoken to reject independence. This close poll has shocked many people around the world, including

settled in large numbers in Ireland and began to systematically dis-enfranchise the native population. Through land ownership and legal discrimination, the Irish lived as sub-citizens in their own country; this mistreatment by the British culminated in the Great Famine of 1845, which created the atmosphere of ant-imperial nationalism, which laid the groundwork for the troubles. In the early1600s with the support from the British Government, English Protestants settled in Ireland that enticed a conflict

The fight for independence was not simply to challenge Edward I’s overlordship of Scotland. After Balliol’s abdication of the crown in 1296 and his subsequent imprisonment, the country was left to the English administration. The Scot’s continued to fight against the English, however, they were not a united front. The circumstances of Balliol’s ascension to the crown in 1291 had created civil disputes in Scotland. The Great Cause of 1291 had seen seven families attempt to claim the throne. Edward

happened to everyone in Ireland. When faced with this problem, many people had a life-changing choice. They could either try to move or stay in in Ireland and endure it. At least 1,000,000 people died from the famine. The Irish Potato Famine was a blight that influenced millions of lives and killed many innocent people. In 1845, a blight started in Ireland. Ireland’s prime crop was potatoes, being nutritious and easy to cook, so they didn’t grow much else. About 40% of people in Ireland only ate potatoes

The Legacy that Britain left for Ireland is that Ireland is and is not better with England. In this you will find out about Ireland and its history. Before England took over there was the founding of Ireland and the Vikings. During British rule you will hear about the Potato Famine and how few survived. Then After the British left Ireland alone and the Protestants and the Catholics try to show their dominance over the other. Finally you will read a paraphrasing of a short story by Mary Beckett in

tactics including ambushes, raids and sabotage in the effort to rid British armed forces in Ireland to be able to establish the Republic of Ireland. They operated with and without political control and took the upper hand in the independence movement by becoming a violent organisation in both Ireland and Britain. The Provisional IRA formed in 1969 when the original IRA was split

The spark that ignited Maguire’s discontent into open rebellion was the appointment and ensuing depredations of Captain Humphrey Willis. This was the same Willis, who had previously been driven out of Donegal by Hugh Roe O’Donnell in February 1592. He was appointed sheriff in the spring of 1593 and quickly re-established his pattern of raiding and spoiling that was familiar to the inhabitants of Tirconnell the previous year. Willis had no legal reason for spoiling Maguire’s lordship, and the authorities

During the novel ‘CAL’ written by Bernard Maclavery that takes place in Northern Ireland. The young Irishman Cal lives with his father Shamie who are both catholics. They live in a town near Belfast in which mainly Protestants live. Cal's mother died when he was 8 years old.Cal faces many hardships and life difficulties throughout. Maclavery uses ways in which we feel the innocence of Cal and that we feel sympathetic towards him. The book first introduces his relationship with his father

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