The Irish occupy a unique place in the history of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade‚ being white Europeans who were both slaves and slave owners‚ depending on which way the political and economic winds were blowing from the seventeenth century onwards. From the ruled to the rulers the Irish played a significant and almost universal role in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and their story is one which is deserving of a greater knowledge both at home in Ireland but also worldwide. In relation to the question
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TMA04: The Invention Of Tradition. How selective did Irish Nationalists have to be to establish continuity with the national past? The Invention of Tradition as described by Hobsbawm and Ranger‚ “Is taken to mean a set of practices‚ normally governed by overtly or tacitly accepted rules and of ritual or symbolic nature‚ which seek to inculcate certain values as norms of behaviour by reputation.” (E. Hobsbawm‚ T Ranger‚ 1983. p.3) The concept of tradition is the passing down of practices
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violence the main reason for Irish independence 1801-1922?” Violence has always been a part of Ireland‚ fuelled by religion‚ politics and nationalism. While it did play a significant role in Ireland being granted independence at the end of 1922‚ it was the motives behind the violence that arguably had more of an impact. Ireland entered the century with violence in the county of Wicklow‚ with prisoners still being shipped to Austrailia. Due to the violence the Irish Parlement and the British government
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The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) was formed in 1969. The Official IRA declared a cease-fire in the summer of 1972‚ and subsequently the term IRA began being used for the organization that developed from the ’Provisional ’ IRA. Organized into small‚ tightly knit cells under the leadership of the Army Council the IRA has remained largely unchanged. It is difficult to know the exact number of IRA members because of the political and economic persecution that comes with publicly endorsing
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with the past.’ (Hobsbawm‚ p. 176). This cycle of cause and effect is clearly apparent in Irish history‚ both preceding and following independence in 1922‚ indicating their tradition is carefully crafted‚ as a result of radical change‚ to acknowledge only the past they wish to align themselves with. Incensed at hundreds of years of oppressive English rule (an unsuitable past they chose to forget)‚ Irish nationalists sought to reinvent the past to suit the needs of the present and ‘a potent set
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Week 5 Check Point: Full Sentence Outline I. The Irish migration was not just because of the potato famine. A. There was more than just one potato famine in the 19th century. 1. The British government helped the Irish out of the first famine. 2. How they helped during the first famine. B. The British government did not help during the second famine. 1. The reason they did not help was political. 2. The result was
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The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has sought for a unified Ireland for decades through the use of violence and intimidation in the form of terrorism. Britain’s occupation of Ulster (Northern Ireland)‚ has been a controversial reign with a primarily Protestant influence on a previously Catholic area. This has led to various civil right issues and activism in the most affected parts. Politically‚ the feud is primarily about land and the unification of Ireland‚ thus the disputes over who Northern Ireland
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The Liberals wished to solve the Irish problem to benefit the Irish people whereas the Conservatives attempted to solve the Irish Problem to fulfil their own aims and to bluster their Irish Nationalist support. Both parties had little success though the conservatives had more than the Liberals as they had a more practical approach. As an attempt to solve the Irish problem‚ Gladstone implemented the Second Land Reform in 1881‚ where in which he gave the Irish farmers most of the rights and securities
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Although there are parallels between Irish and Welsh sagas of elopement‚ the powerful self confident women depicted in these narratives do not represent the real women of Medieval Ireland and Wales. Proinsias Mac Cana has suggested that the dominant roles of Deirdre and Gráinne in their respective tales (Longes mac nUislenn and Toruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne) are ‘literary variations on the exemplar of the sovereignty goddess’ (Doan‚ 1985: 90). Bitel (1996: 2) asserts that Celticists have been
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The Real Irish Republican Army Introduction In July of 2012‚ a member of the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA) approached a journalist in Derry City with a statement about the future of the organization. The statement outlined the purpose of the organization‚ and called upon the British government to remove all British military presence in “their” country. Additionally‚ the statement indicated a merger between several republican sovereignty organizations by stating that “In recent years
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