Northern Ireland The problems between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland started a long time ago and more political than religious. For centuries the English had tried to gain control of Ireland. Until the sixteenth centrury‚England controlled only a small area of Ireland around Dublin. English rulers‚ including King Henry VIII‚ Queen Elizabeth I and Oliver Cromwell gradually conquered the whole of Ireland. Ireland became a British colony in 1607. The last area to resis the English
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Tourism in the Republic of Ireland Tourism in the Republic of Ireland is one of the biggest contributors to the Economy of the Republic of Ireland‚ with over 6.2 million people visiting the country in 2011‚ about 1.4 times Ireland’s population. Each year about €5bn in revenue is made from economic activities directly related to tourists‚ accounting for about 4% of GNP and empolying over 200‚000 people. In 2011 alone‚ Ireland was voted ’Favourite holiday destination in the World’ by readers of Frommer’s
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of Rome 1957.The main aim of this act was to establish a single market within the EU by the 31st of December 1992.This act was signed in both Luxembourg and the Hague. The act came into effect under the Delors Commission on the 1st of July 1987. Ireland has witnessed a changing environment since the introduction of the single market‚ beforehand many Irish industrial sectors were dominated by state owned enterprises. In 1993‚ state aid to specific entities was outlawed. This meant that there was more
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establish what globalisation is. Globalisation connotes the stretching and intensification of social‚ economic and political relations across continents (Held et all‚ 1999). Capital is the first actor which I am going to look at. In the early 1950s Ireland was a closed economy. However from the late 1950’s on it slowly began to open up. By the 1960’s 25% of national output was being exported (O’Toole‚ 2003)‚ which although still comparatively low it showed that the Irish economy was changing. The effects
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History Ireland was far from Europe‚ close to England‚ and now it’s torn between the two. Far from Europe meant that only a small assortment of plants and animals managed to colonize the island before melting glaciers flooded any land routes to England and the mainland. One result - no snakes in Ireland. They just didn’t make it here in the short space of time between ice and island. The handful of species that did arrive thrived. The native landscape was dominated by mature oak forests. About
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Q.1: How did Nationalism and the idea of the Nation-State emerge? Ans: Till mid-eighteenth century most of the people around world did not have concept of nationalism i.e. about their nationality‚ their national identity etc. This is because at that time nations did not exist in their modern form. People lived within kingdoms‚ small states‚ principalities‚ chiefdoms and not within nations. The first clear expression of nationalism came with the French Revolution in 1789. Thus‚ the idea of nationalism
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“The Celtic Tiger was the phrase most associated with Ireland since the 1990s‚ describing its dramatic growth from one of Europe’s poorest states to one of its richest.”[1] The government‚ thinking that the economy was growing‚ increased wages and pensions‚ extended the public sector. They used money that they didn’t own‚ as the growth they thought was real‚ was in fact a bubble. This led to a huge deficit in the Irish economy. Ireland was bailed out because the countries within the EU knew the extent
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Hindi Nationalism This piece on Hindu nationalism‚ written by Alok Rai‚ deals with the coming of modern Hindi in the late 90s and the early 20s. Alok Rai who is also known as a critical thinker‚ theorist and also the grandson of Premchand makes his readers aware of the process of modernization in the case of language. In this essay we get to witness a connection between Hindi (old Hindi) and “Hindi” (new Hindi). Making of Hindi as a modern language connects to the programme of the imagining the
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Economy of Ireland I. Introduction The economy of Ireland has transformed in recent years from an agricultural focus to a modern knowledge economy‚ focusing on services and high-tech industries and dependent on trade‚ industry and investment. Since the mid 1990’s‚ Ireland has experienced consistent growth rates of up to 10% per annum. This has been attributed to years of strong government planning through the implementation of five-year National Development Plans. These plans provided for large-scale
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Nationalism and After * * * Edward Hallett Carr NATIONALISM AND AFTER Books by Prof. E. H. Carr INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SINCE THE PEACE TREATIES MICHAEL BAKUNIN THE TWENTY YEARS’ CRISIS‚ CONDITIONS OF PEACE I919-1939 NATIONALISM AND AFTER BY EDWARD H A L L E T T CARR PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE UNIVERSITY COLLÈGE OF WALES LONDON MACMILLAN R & 945 CO. LTD COPYRIGHT PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN B Y R. it R. CLARK‚ LIMITED
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