Republic of Ireland

as evidenced by their winning of individual Nobel prizes seventy years apart. Like Yeats, Heaney was recognized globally, as likely to lecture at Harvard as to read at Dublin City University. British colonization ravaged both Yeats’s and Heaney’s Ireland. Both poets acknowledge the violence either in the Irish Civil War or in the Troubles, Northern Ireland’s nationalist guerrilla war fought in the…

Factually, Northern Ireland’s Loyalist character has continuously been centered on the belief in “Protestant peoplehood,” as James Craig, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in 1934 stating that the Belfast régime was “a Protestant Parliament and Protestant state” in stark contrast to the non-Protestant nation in the south. Northern Ireland was created out of anxiety and distress of and opposition for an independent Irish nation and the “Home Rule” which Northern Loyalists considered “simply an…

Irish Volunteers, was formed with the purpose of using armed forces to turn over British rule in Ireland. The IRA, or Irish Republican Army, fought for independence from Britain through the employment of guerilla warfare and vicious war tactics to force the British officials to reconsider their rule. After negotiations with Great Britain, two autonomous political entities were formed: Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. However, this result was unacceptable to the majority of IRA members,…

independence. After the war, Great Britain and Ireland signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The treaty concluded the war and turned Ireland into a free state. It also gave Northern Ireland an opportunity to secede from the Irish Free State and become a part of the United Kingdom, an opportunity they quickly grasped. The treaty was supposed to help Ireland, but it didn’t help at all and there are several reasons for this. The treaty dissolved the republic that was founded in 1918 and forced them to…

Background on Ireland and the Conflict The history of Ireland can be traced back extensively with various groups laying claim to it. This history is very convoluted and long, yet for Ireland, a very important part of its history lies in the interactions between it and Britain. Over the centuries, there has been much repression, conflict and animosity that to this day ravages the Emerald Isle. These interactions can be looked all the way back to 1169 when the Normans, who later became modern…

Ireland has an interesting background of mythology and folklore. Ireland, although heavily influenced by the Christian ethos of the monks, the original pagan magic and majesty are not entirely lost in the tales of the irish countrymen. The roman catholic beliefs of the irish are strong and unbreakable, but they still somewhat believe in the old folklore. A wide range of beliefs and practices were concerned with the issues of death and burial and, in former times, the waking of the dead was an…

viewed themselves as solely upholding the British Protestant traditions. Laird believes that the BBC and the Northern Ireland civil service are partially controlled by Irish nationalists. He views himself and other Ulster-Scots as a minority, oppressed by Irish republicans. He is proud of his people, seeing them as an obstacle to the nationalists who seek to dominate Northern Ireland. Further, he sees the Ulster-Scots people as voiceless against those in the Irish government wanting to stifle…

educated well on The Troubles or Irish politics, past and present. In comparison to the current antics of American politics, Ireland and those a part of the United Kingdom are facing similar topics, though on a different scale. One of the most prevalent issues the former Lord Mayor talked about were gender rights, branching off briefly on women’s rights to abortions in the Republic. Within the walls of what is considered Londonderry, however, a pristine museum was created by a group connected…

On the one hand, IRA control over crime and violence could gain support from the community, as a means to an end, as such a high volume of crimes committed in a majority Catholic area would have a negative impact on the Catholic community across Ireland as a whole, and by using extreme measures they could act as a deterrence. However, on the other hand it could have acted to almost undermine the movement itself, as an organisation which couldn’t control its members and supporters, and reverted…

Ireland has many very unique aspects in its culture that help shape the country to what it is today. Some of those aspects include symbolism, linguistic affiliation, food customs, food in everyday life, trade, gender roles, marriage, religion, industries, holidays, and special clothing. Ireland is a very interesting country and culture. The Irish have a similar diet to other Northern Europeans. They eat things like meat, cereal, bread, and potatoes at most meals. Some vegetables they eat…