becoming unstoppable but he could foresee that the British parliament would not simply grant repeal so he proposed another approach that would force the British to act. He set up different mass public meetings to show the popular support for repeal. He tried not to put the situation at risk by having a violent repression by British forces‚ as he hated violence. O’Connell had to try to convince the British that repeal was the appropriate thing to do‚ but he also had to make sure he stayed within
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Why people were leaving Ireland and why they went to America? The reason for Irish t leave their home to America is to run away from political and religious persecution. Extreme poverty caused by natural calamity of the Irish potato starvation forced people to leave from Ireland to seek a new life in the United Stated. Voluntary Irish Immigration to America began with a small trickle of immigrants in the 1700’s. The largest proportion of the early Irish Immigration to America in the 1700’s consisted
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changes throughout Northern Ireland‚ especially in the three areas of health‚ housing and education. It did this through funding from London‚ as Northern Ireland could not pay for these reforms out of its own income. After Northern Ireland helped the UK in WW2‚ they were looked upon in a better way. In return‚ most of the taxation control was given to the British government. They were also given aid from the Marshall plan. Although at the time Lord Basil Brooke‚ the PM for Northern Ireland‚ was reluctant
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At the time of writing Murmuring Judges‚ the whole of Britain was under the terrifying cloud of the IRA. With bombings going off in both England and Ireland‚ people on both sides feared for their lives. In the eyes of most English people‚ the Irish were seen as terrorists or‚ at the very least‚ co-conspirators. Therefore‚ Hare saw it as crucial that he set the victim of the play as an Irishman‚ with the middle-England judiciary being the abusers. As we see in Act 1 Scene 4‚ Gerard McKinnon is being
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the year and following the crops‚ planting or harvesting other places in Ireland or England‚ Wales‚ Scotland. However‚ the potato famine disaster‚ where a type of fungi destroyed the potato crops‚ which the people depend on‚ forced them to immigrate far to the US. By 1855‚ over 1 million people had died from hunger and sickness. During the great potato famine‚ about 1.5 million people immigrated to United States from Ireland motivated by the need for survival. Migrants sent letters home. Letters
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and the British people have always been very conservative and afraid of new changes‚ phenomena also known as nepotism‚ as we also known from parts of Denmark like Bornholm etc. But since England joined the European Community in 1973 together with Ireland and Denmark‚ England has slowly changed to be a global and modern country. Therefore I think that the transformations of the traditional pub into modern theme pubs are a natural development nobody can fight against. But theme pubs can in my opinion
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the refrains‚ Yeats mentions John O’Leary‚ who was an Irish separatist ’of a different kind’. His political stance was much less self-interested‚ compared with many of Yeats’ contemporaries‚ as he instead focused on getting the greatest good for Ireland. It is clear through the poem‚ Yeats admires this and wishes for a return to the less egotistical and self-driven politics of a bygone era. [3] Yeats does‚ however‚ appear to question whether these great historical figures‚ whom he admired and previously
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Kevin Matthews May 12‚ 2013 ENGL 224 Language in Translations Translations is a three-act play written by Brian Friel set in the small town of Baile Beag‚ a fictional Donegal village in Ireland. The play deals with issues ranging from language and communication barriers to Irish history and cultural imperialism by the English. The clash of cultures coupled with misunderstanding and misinterpretations leads to chaos within the small town. The difficulty of trying to communicate without an effective
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The Death of Ireland in Brian Friel’s Translations In his play Translations‚ Brian Friel addresses his 1980 audience with the intention of warning them of the dangers of allowing their culture to fade. The play is set in 1830s Ireland‚ in the midst of an impending crossroads of the old Ireland vs Anglicized Ireland‚ where the main characters feel the effects of linguistic imperialism. Written 150 years later with the benefit of historical hindsight‚ Friel makes the still relevant points of how critical
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findings from a study of African immigrants to Ireland. The main focus of the study was to look at the experiences of pregnant and post natal African women and to explore questions about their experiences of maternity services in Ireland and also larger issues of integration into Irish society. The research was based primarily in a Dublin maternity hospital. The author also highlights a number of issues African immigrants face when living in Ireland‚ racism‚ family reunification‚ the right to work
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