Ireland and England's relationship between 1800 and 1916 was tumultuous at best. Politics, nationalism, and religion caused huge rifts between the two countries. England believed they had authority over the country, and that 'Ireland should be governed in the English interest,' as England's history with Ireland went back before Ireland was even an organized state. (Document 1) The Irish obviously felt that they should have control of the land they grew up on and cultivated. They didn't want to be ruled by the king of England, across the sea, in a different country, of a different religion. 'All of civilization, arts, comfort, wealth that Ireland enjoys she owes exclusively to England,' argues John Wilson Croaker. (Document 5) However, most Irish, particularly the Catholics who opposed the Act of Union in 1801, didn't see it that way. 'The land of Ireland belongs to the people of Ireland. Those who cultivate it have a higher claim to its absolute possession than landlords who only use it for profit or pleasure,' declared the National Land League in 1879, certainly repeating what many Irish believed. (Document 6)
Most of Ulster, the northernmost province of Ireland, was Protestant but in the rest of the country, the majority of the Irish were Catholic. (Document 9) This caused clashes with England, which was a Protestant country at the time. William J. Flynn argued that Protestantism in Ireland would ...
" American?" "There were never, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel." Lord Chesterfield, in a letter to his son, February 22nd, 1748. Colonial culture was uniquely American simply because of the unique factors associated with the development of the colonies. Never before had the conditions that tempered the colo...
Vietnam: The War We Should Hav The Vietnam War is one of the most disgraceful periods in American history. Not only did the greatest superpower in the world get bested by an almost third-world nation, but we lost badly. Perhaps this war could have been won, or even prevented in the first place. The United States could have and should have won th...
There were many events that lead up to the Bolshevik Revolution. First off, in 1848, Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels published a thought-provoking book. The Communist Manifesto expressed their support of a world in which there was no difference in class. A world in which the workers and commoners ran the show and there was no high and supreme...
GREAT ZIMBABWE This article which I have chosen to read, is about a ruined city of southeast Zimbabwe south of Harare. Great Zimbabwe is an ancient city on the plateau in sub-Saharan Africa. Great Zimbabwe was supposedly a city that controlled much trade and culture of southern Africa during the 12th and 17th centuries because it w...
Heroes The name Ulysses instantly conjures up images of heroism and adventure. Even modern readers who are less versed in classical literature recognize the larger-than-life character, if not the specific details of this legend. It is with these associations in mind that one approaches the poetic monologue 'Ulysses' by Alfred Lord Tenny...