How far was the 1981 hunger strike successful in achieving democratic status for the Irish Republican Movement? Robert Kee argues that the 1981 hunger strike failed to achieve democratic status for the Irish Republican Movement‚ because of the British government refusing the strikers’ demands‚ which Eric Black states caused ten deaths. David Beresford supports this view by arguing that the refusal was due to the then Prime Minister‚ Margaret Thatcher’s‚ political ideology. In contrast‚ Paul Wilkinson
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The idea that discrimination on the grounds of pregnancy should be construed as sex discrimination has been the subject of passionately debated controversy since the idea was first proposed. Honeyball contends it should be dealt with as sex discrimination yet other legal academics have recommended the introduction of specific rights. It is necessary to analyse the concept in order to establish which would be most appropriate. While some people advocate that discrimination on the basis of pregnancy
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What is a Single Malt Scotch Whisky ? | | A Single Malt Scotch Whisky is the product of one specific distillery and has not been mixed with whisky from any other distilleries. The greatest concentration of malt whisky distilleries can be found in the Speyside region of north-east Scotland‚ with Highland‚ Lowland and Islay being the other main malt whisky producing zones. Each of these regions has its own particular distinctive style of malt whisky and although it is not possible for two malts
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critically. Mary Kate Danaher is a representation of the emigrant fantasy of return. From her first appearance in the picturesque fields of Innisfree to her eventual marriage to Sean Thornton Mary Kate fulfils the stereotypical Irish maiden role portrayed so many times in Irish Cinema. When first viewed by Thornton she is portrayed as a typical Pastoral Maiden from the a Rococo painting‚ dressed in royal blue and red and tending to her sheep: “a red- haired shepherdess in a verdant glade” (Screening
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The Irish Political Party System Introduction One major reason why the Irish political party system has been very stable for the past 77 years is because it has effectively served the needs of the country. For the purpose of this paper the term effective will mean that the parties in combination have been able to meet the demands of the people and provide for a stable and democratic political system. The Irish party system and the major parties are very difficult to classify. The Irish party
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Introduction This Irish prison system consists of 15 different institutions. This is made up of eleven traditional ‘closed’ prisons‚ two ‘open’ prisons‚ a training prison and a prison for young offenders. All of our prisons are termed medium-low security‚ apart from Portlaoise prison; a male only prison and our countries only high security prison. The purpose of a prison is to retain those legally committed of a crime as punishment or whilst they await trial. ‘The mission of the Irish prison service
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Olivia Barragree Mr. Green Irish Literature 3 17 February 2013 Irish Love In 20th Century Ireland‚ the practice of marriage remained very strict due to the religious standards of the time. The majority of the Irish population remained strictly Roman Catholic while a small population in the north remained Protestant. The Roman Catholic view on marriage remains to be that marriage should stay within the religion and be life-long‚ or until death due you part. With divorce removed as an option
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why Eveline would want to stay in Dublin. Everything seemed right in place for her to begin a new life with a man she supposedly trusted and wanted to be with. The interactive orals gave me a better understanding of how much of an impact the ’Irish Diaspora’‚ ’Roman Catholicism’‚ the ’Role of Women in Ireland’ and ’Ireland in the New World’ contributed to her paralysis and seeming inability to give up her old life and start a new one. The first presentation in the interactive orals was about
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incentive that explains why people from Korean diaspora left their country and settled down in the territory of Russia‚ China and the United States without hesitation. In both articles “Korean Emigration to the Russian Far East‚ 1860s-1910s” and “The Early Korean Immigration‚” the authors discuss some typical issues that people from Korean diaspora and early Korean immigrants had encountered. Moreover‚ both authors analyze how people from Korean diaspora and early Korean immigrants built their relationship
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"Endangered Masculinities in Irish Poetry" examines the dynamic response of early modern Ireland’s hereditary bardic professional poets to impinging colonial change. Having for generations validated the power of their patrons‚ policed communal norms and acted as self-conscious cultural custodians‚ these elite master-poets were both professionally obligated and personally motivated to defend both their community and their own way of life from renewed English aggression in the sixteenth century. Endangered
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