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    Irish Prison System

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    Introduction This Irish prison system consists of 15 different institutions. This is made up of eleven traditional ‘closed’ prisons‚ two ‘open’ prisons‚ a training prison and a prison for young offenders. All of our prisons are termed medium-low security‚ apart from Portlaoise prison; a male only prison and our countries only high security prison. The purpose of a prison is to retain those legally committed of a crime as punishment or whilst they await trial. ‘The mission of the Irish prison service

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    Irish Literature Paper

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    Olivia Barragree Mr. Green Irish Literature 3 17 February 2013 Irish Love In 20th Century Ireland‚ the practice of marriage remained very strict due to the religious standards of the time. The majority of the Irish population remained strictly Roman Catholic while a small population in the north remained Protestant. The Roman Catholic view on marriage remains to be that marriage should stay within the religion and be life-long‚ or until death due you part. With divorce removed as an option

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    A Nation of Immigrants

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    A Nation of Immigrants at a time when the issue of immigration and immigrants has taken center stage in this country‚ the message of President John F. Kennedy’s classic essay A Nation of Immigrants is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago.  That is why the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and publisher Harper Perennial have reissued this landmark essay on the contribution of immigrants to American society. With a new introduction by Senator Edward M. Kennedy‚ A Nation of Immigrants (Harper Perennial)

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    The Irish Potato Famine

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    Great Irish Famine Ireland 1847 Approved by the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education on September 10th‚ 1996‚ for inclusion in the Holocaust and Genocide Curriculum at the secondary level. Revision submitted 11/26/98. 0. DEDICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This curriculum is dedicated to the millions of Irish who suffered and perished in the Great Starvation. It is also dedicated to those who escaped by emigration‚ and to the great Irish Diaspora worldwide. The Irish Famine

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    Latino Immigrants

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    Latino Immigrants and Social Welfare Policy Page 1 of 6 Latino Immigrants and Social Welfare Policy Overview of the Issue This essay will examine the plight of Latino immigrants; review the opposing opinions concerning providing social welfare for Latino immigrants; and explain and justify the authors’ opinion concerning this urgent national concern. Immigration is an increasingly divisive issue in the U.S. Significant numbers of immigrants working and living in the U.S.‚ combined with mounting

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    Irish Politics 1922

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    Between 1922/32 what steps did the Cosgrave govt. Take to establish the IFS on firm foundations? The IFS was officially established on the 6th of Dec 1921. The IFS under the Anglo Irish treaty obtained dominion status. This meant that Ireland had full economic autonomy‚ the British army would leave the state‚ we would be entitled to have our own foreign policy. Although these were incrementally positive to the Ifs we still had connections with Britain that had to sustain‚ such as the kings representative

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    "Endangered Masculinities in Irish Poetry" examines the dynamic response of early modern Ireland’s hereditary bardic professional poets to impinging colonial change. Having for generations validated the power of their patrons‚ policed communal norms and acted as self-conscious cultural custodians‚ these elite master-poets were both professionally obligated and personally motivated to defend both their community and their own way of life from renewed English aggression in the sixteenth century. Endangered

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    The great number of Irish immigrants from this period‚ however‚ decided to try to make their new life in the United States of America‚ especially the American Northeast. Millions of Irish came into the United States during the nineteenth century with a vast percentage of them arriving in New York City; from the year 1852 to 1857 there was 582‚140 Irish that emigrated to the United States and of them 444‚960 arrived in New York City‚ which is over 76% of all Irish immigrants during this period.

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    Anglo Irish Bank

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    Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited: Overview Introduction Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited (UK Branch) provides business banking‚ treasury‚ and private banking services. The company is based in London‚ United Kingdom with operations in Ireland‚ the United Kingdom‚ Germany‚ Austria‚ the Isle of Man‚ Jersey‚ and the United States. Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited (UK Branch) operates as a subsidiary of Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited. 1964 – Anglo

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    .2. The Revival of the Irish Language The Gaelic League was founded in the year 1893‚ a cultural movement whose aim was to promote and maintain the Irish language. By that time‚ Irish had become a minority language‚ spoken by no more than 15.2 per cent of the population of the whole of Ireland‚ or 19.2 per cent of the population of the area which was later to secede from the United Kingdom to become the Irish Free State. In 1911‚ those figures had declined to 13.3 per cent and 17.6 per cent respectively

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