forties. This great northward migration of the Afrikaner people‚ involved thousands of cattle and sheep farmers who fled British authority. Leaving the frontier regions of the Cape Colony‚ and founded the independent republics of Natal‚ the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. The struggle of the Afrikaner or Boer people since the 17th century when they arrived in South Africa from Europe was like that of Americans‚ a struggle for freedom from foreign authority. The Boers‚ or farmers
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The Great Migration from Ireland to America 1800-1900 The Irish were among the many people who migrated to the United States of America. The wave of Irish migration happened in the mid – 18th century and started around the early 1840s. Many of the Irish moved to the United States of America and Canada because they wanted to be able to live freely. The majority of Irish people post 1000 A.D were Catholic. In Ireland‚ there were laws enforced by the British government that removed power form the
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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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to technical qualifications) necessary for economic development. In addition‚ the report dealt with considerable socio-economic and regional disparities in participation rates. Investment in Education provided the impetus for the introduction of the free education scheme in 1967. This scheme removed fees for participating secondary schools (to reduce socio-economic inequalities) and introduced a school transport scheme (to reduce regional inequalities). The scheme led to a significant increase in the
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The life of Irish immigrants in Boston was one of poverty and discrimination. The religiously centered culture of the Irish has along with their importance on family has allowed the Irish to prosper and persevere through times of injustice. Boston ’s Irish immigrant population amounted to a tenth of its population. Many after arriving could not find suitable jobs and ended up living where earlier generations had resided. This attributed to the "invisibility" of the Irish. Much of the very early
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The Irish Potato Famine Six long years‚ with over 1 million dead‚ and nearly a quarter of the population missing‚ the Irish Potato Famine left a massive imprint in history (Irish 1). Most people underestimate the destruction of the Potato Famine because 1 million does not look like very many in today’s population numbers. Back in the 1800’s‚ less than 8 million populated Ireland. With their largest food source destroyed‚ the Irish looked upon Britain for help‚ in
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The Anglo-Irish agreement was an agreement that aimed to end the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The agreement between the states‚ the United Kingdom and the Ireland‚ would allow the Irish government to have an advisory role in Northern Ireland’s government. It established the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference‚ where British and Irish ministers could discuss the issues affecting Northern Ireland. Though the agreement failed to end the tensions between both the Irish and Anglo communities‚ it
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The Irish Troubles: A Quest For Peace The Irish Troubles is the name given to the political‚ cultural‚ and civil conflict that enveloped the island of Ireland for decades. The conflict is deeply embedded in the history of Ireland and the cultural difference between the native Irish and the British. As Ireland fell under the rule of England‚ cultural clashes resulted in two completely different societies living amongst one another. The Protestant British and the Catholic Irish make up the clashing
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