RELIGION AND IRISH MYTHOLOGY IN THE BALLAD OF FATHER GILLIGAN This poem takes a ballad form - a traditional form‚ usually sung‚ with regular‚ short stanzas that tell a story. It has a more overtly religious content than most of Yeats’s poems. As a protestant who turned to theosophy and mysticism‚ Yeats usually stays away from Catholic themes. Yeats also usually stays away from the Irish language‚ which he uses in this poem when he writes‚ "mavrone!" which is the Irish‚ "Mo bhron‚" a cry of grief
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The Irish War of Independence and its Legacy The Irish War of Independence is by no means a cut and dry issue. The legacy of this War‚ which began in 1919 and ended 1921 and its consequences are not confined to this specific time period. It resulted in an immediate Civil War between Irish pro-Treaty and anti-Treaty forces‚ which lasted for one violent and bloody year post independence. It’s legacy can also be seen in Northern Ireland today which has seen acts of extreme terrorism by loyalist
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How did nationalism form or transform Europe during the 19th century? In the beginning of the 19th century‚ 1830s‚ lots of revolutions happened and failed‚ but some succeeded. Charles X‚ the French Monarch‚ tried to take voting rights away from the middle class‚ causing the second French Revolution. It succeeded and a new constitutional monarchy was created. Poland revolted against Russia and Italy revolted against Austria for freedom and failed‚ while Belgium rebelled against the Dutch and became
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When we speak of ’The Necessity for De-Anglicising the Irish Nation’‚ we mean it‚ not as a protest against imitating what is best in the English people‚ for that would be absurd‚ but rather to show the folly of neglecting what is Irish‚ and hastening to adopt‚ pell-mell‚ and indiscriminately‚ everything that is English‚ simply because it is English. This is a question which most Irishmen will naturally look at from a National point of view‚ but it is one which ought also to claim the sympathies
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Anglo-Irish treaty was drafted and signed by representatives of both the Irish and British Governments. After centuries of bitter feuding involving both sides the British Government was for the first time to offer the Irish independence. In this essay I seek to outline how the Irish revolution of 1919 and 1921 was successful in achieving Irish independence. Richard English says‚ “There had never been any chance of a formal military victory… nor in practice of the British recognising an Irish republic
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nationalistic thoughts began to infiltrate Europe‚ which eventually lead up to unifications‚ as well as the First World War. Nationalism began as each ethnicity began to feel a sense of individuality and identity. Nationalism was the start of independence and revolutions‚ even after the Congress of Vienna‚ which sought to continue conservative ways. With the rise of nationalism in the 19th‚ it catalyzed many wars including World War One. At the beginning of the 19th century‚ the Congress of Vienna
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Irish Immigration to America Throughout the 1800s and early 1900s the amount of Irish people immigrating to America increased greatly. The peak of the immigration occurred between 1845 and 1855 due to the spread of famine in Ireland which took the life of near a million people. The Famine was caused from a virus that infected the potato crops causing them to rot and decay. The disease was also known as the “Potato blight.” Because of the great famine a vast amount of the Irish people were forced
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TMA04: The Invention Of Tradition. How selective did Irish Nationalists have to be to establish continuity with the national past? The Invention of Tradition as described by Hobsbawm and Ranger‚ “Is taken to mean a set of practices‚ normally governed by overtly or tacitly accepted rules and of ritual or symbolic nature‚ which seek to inculcate certain values as norms of behaviour by reputation.” (E. Hobsbawm‚ T Ranger‚ 1983. p.3) The concept of tradition is the passing down of practices
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The Irish Impact on the American Economy The Great Famine of the mid 19th century caused a mass exodus of Irish immigrants to the United States. According to Kevin Kenny‚ roughly 2 million immigrants traveled to the Americas within 10 years. This massive influx of immigrants had various sociopolitical effects‚ but arguably the largest impact was on the American economy‚ which was prime for the industrial revolution. Manifest Destiny was a major domestic policy at the time‚ where the United States
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Were the terms of the Anglo – Irish Treaty of December 1921 a realistic to settle the problems of Ireland? First of all signing of the Treaty was a victory for the British government since they achieved what they set out to accomplish. Second and most important settlement in Ireland was impossible because Anglo-Irish Treaty split Sinn Fein‚ those who opposed Treaty led by Eamon de Valera and those who took a pragmatic response to the situation they faced led by Collins and Griffith. The terms
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