What is the impact of European Union membership for the Republic of Ireland? Ireland’s decision to join the European Union has had quite an impact on the county. Firstly it provided the Republic with a stage on which to assert its independence from Britain‚ which it relied upon (almost to fault) too heavily for trade. Having said this‚ many believe that it put the final nail in the coffin of the Ireland in which De Valera had envisaged‚ that being the God-fearing rural people who eschewed the excess
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Liberation of Ireland The 1916 Easter Rising The Easter Rebellion‚ was an armed uprising of Irish nationalists against the rule of Great Britain in Ireland. The uprising occurred on Easter Monday‚ April 24‚ 1916‚ and centred mainly in Dublin. The chief objectives were the attainment of political freedom and the establishment of an Irish republic. Centuries of discontent‚ marked by numerous rebellions‚ preceded the uprising. The new crisis began to develop in September 1914‚ following the outbreak
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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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Ireland is a republic and like all republics they rely on a system of government that contains both elected and appointed officials in the hopes that the will of the people will be represented. It is after all a representative democracy. While Ireland has a president and a prime minister and is now an independent state‚ that was not always the case. Ireland once belonged to Britain and had little say in how they were governed. However‚ in addition to the problems inherent in colonial rule‚ there
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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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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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this massive disparity in Irish and English power stemmed from a troubling set of circumstances. This dualistic era was predated by social havoc‚ excessive penal oppression‚ and military suppression of the Irish. Thus‚ the English who resided in Ireland were allocated esteemed positions in society‚ at the expense of the Irish population. While they constituted the bulk of Ireland’s Population‚ the Irish possessed less than 30% ownership of the land‚ granting English a distinct‚ social advantage.
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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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(the official residence of the lord Mayor) in Dublin‚ its main objective was to declare the condition of complete freedom for the Irish People‚ to repudiate the military occupation of English troops and also to state the independence of the Republic of Ireland. It was written both in English and in Irish Gaelic‚ it was also adopted in French. This document can be considered as the achievement of the hard struggle carried out by the Irish people while trying to obtain the complete independence from
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For quite some time now there has been conflict in Northern Ireland between the two religious groups‚ the Catholics and the Protestants. The fighting going on among these two groups is not over religion but over power of Northern Ireland. At one point the fighting had gotten so bad that they issued a peace treaty. Though the Peace Treaty is currently in place‚ there is still contention between Catholics and Protestants because the past is still affecting the two assemblies. One past event that
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