Northern Ireland / Belfast during World War II Northern Ireland’s strategic importance / Use by British When World War II was declared in September 1939‚ Northern Ireland immediately entered on the British side‚ seeing it as an opportunity to stress their loyalty to Britain in contrast to the neutral Irish Free State. Lord Craigavon affirmed their intention to “place the whole of our resources at the command of the government of Great Britain” (4 Sept) Northern Ireland’s strategic importance
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Exile in Mary Beckett ’s “A Belfast Woman” and Liam O ’Flaherty ’s “Going Into Exile” Ireland has a great history that goes back ages ago. There are many stories written about Ireland. Liam O’Flaherty’s “Going into Exile” and Mary Beckett’s “A Belfast Woman” are short stories written about Ireland. “Going into Exile” and “A Belfast Woman” have historical elements. “Going into Exile” and “A Belfast Woman” have sociological elements. “Going into Exile” and “A Belfast Woman” have psychological elements
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Garai Merino Bilbao Leaving Belfast by Andrew Motion Focused on a conflictive time for Belfast‚ Andrew Motion tries to express the devastation that Belfast suffered during the economy’s decline years and the influence that the political issues had in the society. The narrator’s sadness for having to leave his beloved city can be felt all over the poem. The poem was published at a very difficult time for Belfast. Conflicts and violence were present in all the streets. On the one hand
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How does the poet present the effects of conflict in the Belfast Confetti? The poem ‘Belfast Confetti illustrates the aftermath of a bomb during the troubles that people in Belfast experienced. The title ‘Belfast Confetti’ is a heading that has a dual meaning. On one had the homemade bombs that the IRA used are referred to as Belfast confetti due to the nuts and bolts they put in the shrapnel. The second is more complicated. Confetti is usually used in times of celebration such as weddings‚ which
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accessed online on 21-03-13‚ available at: http://soc.sagepub.com/content/28/1/143 Back‚ L.‚ Solomos‚ J (2009) Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader (2nd edn) Routeledge: New YorkGarner‚ S (2010) Racisms: An introduction‚ Sage publications Ltd: London Belfast Counterfire (2011) Racist attacks on the rise in Northern Ireland‚ 28th October‚ accessed online on 07-03-13‚ available at: http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/articles/international/15078-racist-attacks-on-the-rise-in-northern-ireland Booth‚ R (2010)
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Why was Stormont Dissolved in 1972? Eighty- seven years have passed and partition within Ireland still remains the island’s defining feature. Since the six county country of Northern Ireland was formed under the umbrella organisation of the United Kingdom in 1921‚ Northern Ireland has experienced two periods of its history that are so extreme in their differences. For the first fifty or so years of Northern Ireland’s existence the situation between both sides of the community‚ the Protestants
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Hugh Leonard Thompson Murphy‚ who commonly went by the name Lenny‚ was born on 2nd march‚ 1952 Shankill Road‚ Belfast‚ Northern Ireland. The Shankill Road is the arterial road leading through west Belfast‚ Northern Ireland. It runs through the predominantly loyalist working-class area known as the Shankill. He was an Ulster loyalist and was also a part Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) from Belfast‚ Northern Ireland‚ which was a political group that supports the preservation of Northern Ireland and opposes
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Regarded by many as one of the finest novelists of his time‚ Belfast-born Brian Moore left Ireland a young man‚ and spent more than fifty years in Canada and the US. However‚ as Martin McGinley found out (belatedly)‚ he had strong links with Donegal. The great Brian Moore and the Donegal connection So I mention to Muriel that I’m doing an article about Brian Moore‚ the writer‚ and she says‚ “His mother was from Donegal‚ wasn’t she?” It seems that the world has been aware for some time that
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Every aspect of my life has been a result of the horrifying past of Northern Ireland. I was born on August 16th 1997 to my incredible parents Sean (John) Haughey and Angela Dempsey in Belfast‚ Northern Ireland. My parents‚ although faced with every obstacle imaginable‚ sought out the best life possible for myself‚ and my two siblings. War strays from all sorts of different reasons‚ from religion to land or anything in between. Regardless of the situation‚ we all have some sort of relevance to war
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Across The Barricades From the module‚ conflict‚ the responder learns about the context and values central to what is euphemistically known as ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland and the complexity of life in Belfast in the 1970’s. Conflict in the context of Across The Barricades by Joan Lingard (Oxford 2003) is revealed as never acceptable as an option in conflict and resolution because conflict often has no bounds and grows to be indiscriminate. Joan Lingard states that
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