The Republic of Ireland is a beautiful country well known as the “Emerald Isle” because of its rolling green hills. Ireland is full of landforms and accumulates much rain which helps keep Ireland very lush. Since Ireland is an island the climate tends to stay cool because it is surrounded by water. Along its shoreline there are many breathtaking landmarks. Ireland has a very similar government to the United States with similar challenges.
Ireland has an exact location of 53 00 N, 8 00 W. These include the St. George’s Channel, the North Sea and the Irish sea. Also some other bodies of water include the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Ireland is an island so that is why there are numerous amounts of water features surrounding it. Ireland is a little larger than West Virginia and is in the shape of a bear's leg claw.
Ireland is full of different rivers, lakes, and mountains. The Shannon River is the longest river in the British Isles. It extends over 230 miles and empties into the Atlantic ocean. That then forms a long lake and in which serves as the port of Limerick. The Liffey River starts in the Wicklow mountains and flows in a northeasterly direction. The Liffey then cuts through Dublin which is Ireland’s capital and empties into the Irish sea located in the Dublin Bay. Caledonian is a mountain range in Ireland. It extends from the north and the
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South west winds are blocked by mountains in the west coast. Ireland has a temperate maritime which is connected with the sea. It is modified by the North Atlantic Current and has mild winters and cool summers. In the summertime the temperature averages out to be about 60 degrees fahrenheit. In the winter time the temperature usually is at about 40 degrees fahrenheit. Ireland is constantly humid and mostly overcast. Ireland also has a wet mild climate. Winds and the ocean
“Ireland must be governed in the English interest” as Document 1 states. The Irish and English relationship is one of ethnic superiority over the other and geographical divide. The English feel like it is their duty to make the Irish people like themselves and they believe that their religion is the crux of what makes them inferior and the Irish just want to be left alone. The geographical divide between the nations is the mainly protestant, Ulster, and the Catholic rest of the island as Document 9 suggests. This has caused many disputes because of the fact that Irish Nationalists want the whole island unified.
Some of the native foods and dishes that are special from Ireland are, Shepards Pie which is made with meat, vegetables, and mashed potatoes. Plum Pudding is also a dish native to Ireland, it is typically made as part of a Christmas Day feast.
This major environmental factor led the Irish to immigrate to America. To begin, the poor weather stems back to a volcano that erupted the previous year on April 10th, 1815. The volcano came to be known as Tambora and it affected people all over the world. This volcano was not known on a global level until nearly six months after it had occurred. The news went from America and then spread across to Europe. This volcano occurred nearly 8000 miles away from Ireland and yet still caused havoc there. From the months, May to September the country received rain and storms constantly. The rain which accumulated to more than 25 inches made the crops fail and left the Irish with little to no money. As farmers, they had no choice but to leave Ireland and head to America for a better life. Not only did the potato crop fail but the grain crop did so as well. It is crazy that a natural disaster that occurred so far away from Ireland caused so many issues with crops and is astonishing that it took nearly a year for all the issues to occur. It was said that with all the harsh weather “an acre of wheat was hardly expected within 10 miles.” (“1816-The Year Without a Summer”) Not only the crop failure pushed people to emigrate Ireland but disease was introduced and in turn pushed people to leave for America where it wasn’t an
For Gerald of Wales, religion was one of the most essential aspects of being a civilized human being. Therefore, when he wrote, The History and Topography of Ireland, he portrayed its inhabitants as subhuman and barbaric during his apparent travels to Ireland. As a colonizer, Gerald picked a far away place in which many had not been to, in order to establish them as the “other”. Unfortunately, for Gerald, he may have ridiculed the Irish for their lifestyle conveyed in his writing, but his exploitation of them most likely was done because he could in fact relate to them. In the book, The Postcolonial Middle Ages, Jeffery Jerome Cohen’s analysis in his chapter, “Hybrids, Monsters, Borderlands: The Bodies of Gerald of Wales”, closely focuses on Gerald’s cultural hybridity, which mirrors his accounts of the Irish. Although he deemed the Irish as barbaric, they were also hybrids, thus he also shared a feeling of displacement with them. Nonetheless, he still held himself to a higher degree because they did not properly celebrate Christianity, ultimately leading them to make other unpleasant decisions.
This gentleman is six foot two, short black hair, black eyes, and with no real distinguishing marks. He is heterosexual, African American, and is An Atheist. His name is David, and he is walking home while wearing sweat pants with a ripped up t-shirt that was from home. Some people would consider this gentleman to be poor and have a horrible education with nothing good on his mind. However David is a part-time firefighter, with a part-time job, and also being part time college student. There is a difference between people hardcore supporting their culture or beliefs, compared to individuals who get stereotyped like David for example. In the article, “Sticks and Stones: The Irish Identity”, by Robert McLaim Wilson and published by Grand Street.
In order to legitimise a regime or cause, traditions may be constructed around historical or mythological events, people or symbols that reinforce the image required to focus people’s conception of the past. People can be encouraged to invent a cohesive view of their shared ‘traditions’ by what could be called cherry picking bits of history.
In 1912 British parliament gave home rule to Ireland. Home rule is when a country who is ruled by another country is giving the ability to govern its self. However some people in Irelands Northern counties did not want home rule. They wanted to remain governed by Britain. So the people in the Northern Counties (Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone) remained under British rule while the Southern Counties formed the Republic of Ireland. Shortly after the formation of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland hostilities pushed these two countries to the brink of civil war. This was prevented by the start of World War I.
Fats: The irish diet has a lot of fats in it, most unhealthy sources of fats are foods such as butter, margarine, Milk, mainly dairy products. There are also healthy fats such
The nationality is Irishman or men and woman are Irishwoman. Overall, 84.5 percent of the population is Irish. 9.8 percent are other white people. 1.9 percent are Asian, 1.4 percent are Black, and 0.9 percent is other people. Once you lived in Ireland for a couple years you will pick up their Gaelic accent of the Irish citizens. The Gaelic or Gaeilge is the language spoken by 38.7 percent of the population as their first or second language. Here is the beautiful country of Ireland you will find that 84.7 percent are Roman Catholics. The Church of Ireland and other Christians are 2.7
In May 1921 the first elections held under the Government of Ireland Act took place. The election was held between the Northern and Sothern parliaments, which were established by the Ireland Act. Proportional representation was used during the voting to demonstrate that minorities had protection using the single transferrable vote system that was an English invention. This was new to British politics and fairly uncharted territory in the voting system since its first introduction in the 1920 local elections. The northern parliament was victorious in the elections; this made the British work harder to promote their military campaign. The Irish Republican Army on the other hand was far from defeating Britain and needed to regroup and come
Since the 1950s Ireland has moved from an old fashioned rural conventional country to a modern economy and society moving from church authority to a confident diversity. It has moved from an emigrant society. Where 1/3rd of a generation emigrated to find work to a diverse society.it has moved from a country with marginal social services to a modern welfare state. While the Irish social security system was initially considered as a pale copy of that of its nearest neighbor, the United Kingdom.
Cork derives from the Irish ‘Corcah Mor Mumham’ and means the ‘great Marsh of Munster’ and refers to the fact that the center of Cork city is built on islands, surrounded by the River Lee, which were marshy and prone to episodes of flooding. Some of the waterways between the islands were built over to form some of the main streets of present day Cork. The oblong shape of the city center island, bounded by the north and south channel of the Lee give Cork much of its physical charm. Spencer even immortalized the unusual topography of the city when he wrote:
Primary sources used by historians The photographs used in the book, between the pages of 140 and 141. They show pictures of the Shankill butchers gang members, the gang leader or as he was referred to “Mr Butcher” Lenny Murphy and The Windsor bar. This was the meeting place for Murphy’s rivals in the United Volunteer Force (UVF). It is where they planned their murders and where often enough there were also executed.
During the twentieth century, Ireland was suffering through a time of economic hardship. “Economic growth was stagnant, unemployment was at a historic high and exceeded anywhere in the EU, except possibly Spain, and the state was one of the most indebted in the world” . Irish men and women who had received a formal education had immigrated to other nations due to the unavailability of jobs at home. This left Ireland in a state of further economic downfall, and the lack of skilled workers left Ireland stuck. The 1990’s were a turning point for Ireland. A rise in industry within the nation, as well as an increase in exports, led Ireland to become the “shining nation” in Europe. It became internationally linked with one of the biggest power nations, the United States, and international trade became Ireland’s new source for a booming economy. This brought the rise of what was known as the Celtic Tiger in Ireland.
Foster, R.F.,ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Oxford University Press: Oxford, New York, 1989.