Ulster Essays

The document under study is an excerpt from Robert Peel's speech in the House of Commons. It took place on the 16th of February 1846. Robert Peel was part of the Tory Party. He became Prime Minister for a few months under William IV from December 1834 to April 1835 and for a second time under Queen Victoria from 1841 to 1846. After the Napoleonic Wars, the Corn Laws were passed in 1815 and in 1828. These Acts were protectionist measures, which made possible to maintain a stable and high price for

In 1971 the Ulster Defence Association, who was “an umbrella group for a variety of loyalist groups”, was founded. It became the largest loyalist paramilitary organisation of Northern Ireland with tens of thousands of members at its peak. While the UDA claimed to shield unionist communities from republican paramilitaries’ attacks the reality was far off as the UDA was involved in hundreds of murders during the Troubles while using the Ulster Freedom Fighters as a cover name. In 1992 the British government

Bruce Lincoln, a graduate from Haverford College, has devoted his career to the study of religion and has made a profound impact in the community in regards to the idea of myth. One of his most notable works is “Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship” that focuses on Levi-Strauss, Dumezil, and Eliade’s ideas about the subject of myth and their own perceptions of it. Lincoln goes on to explain the differences between the three regarding their different ideological and political motives

Jeries 1 Asma A. Jeries Professor Ra'ad Ali Research Paper 15 December 2014 Medea as a Feminist Tragedy While researching texts written about Medea the heroine, I found lots of authors highlight the idea that Medea trapped in a patriarchal society, such as, academic journals, articles, and books . These authors looked at the play form unusual perspective which is from a woman's eye. They also found Medea is victimized by her unfaithful husband whom she sacrifices everything

Cú Chulainn in The Táin is depicted as a gifted warrior who accomplishes heroic deeds with his legendary strength. However, The Táin is full of violence, death, and bloodshed, and Cú Chulainn is the perpetrator of a great deal of it. The depictions and stories of Cú Chulainn as a young man in particular are telling of the The Táin’s message that violence is senseless and often meaningless. The almost farcical nature of the violent acts that Cú Chulainn commits is indicative of the text’s desire

Living in a society today makes it hard for many teens and kids our age. We all struggle and stress about this one thing, standing out. This is such a huge thing now because they’re are so much people out there who are doing everything to stand out, We all struggle with this one problem but yet no one really cares talks about it. In this essay I will be talking about the poet Julio Noboa Polanco with his poem “identity”, how different he is to other poets, and lastly how he used his poetic elements

the last Ulster Avenger. Another very powerful moment that affects her maturation is her kidnapping, courtesy of Frank Pemberton. Because Flavia is going through these events, her maturation is greatly impacted and she becomes more grown. Flavia has always been mature for her age, but when her father lies about handling death, it affects her a lot. Flavia knows her father and his personality a lot, so “[she] knew instantly, too, that Father had just told a lie… ”

Debates over this newly introduced bill began and lasted over fourteen nights. The debate also gave doubt to whether Home Rule would provide long term settlement in Anglo Irish affairs. The Ulster unionists were the most against the bill. Colonel Waring saw Home Rule supporters as “potential rebels and traitors”.[1] Ulster unionists would go to great lengths to resist this bill as it would change their connection with Great

because of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the RIC was disbanded in 1922. In the Irish Free State the RIC was replaced by the Garda Siochana and in Northern Ireland by the Royal Ulster Constabulary. In the following I will concentrate on the Police Service in Northern Ireland. Especially on background information about the Royal Ulster Constabulary and also about the Police reform from the RUC to the current Police service, called the Police Service of Northern Ireland, which was concluded after the Good

In the novel, Patriot Games, the author Tom Clancy introduces the reader to a diverse set of characters.While the Ryan’s are vacationing in London, Jack Ryan saves the Prince and Princess of Wales from an Irish terrorist group named Ulster Liberation Army (ULA) during a kidnapping attempt on the in broad daylight. Sean Miller, a ULA terrorist captured by Ryan but not killed, is convicted of a federal crime and sentenced to life imprisonment for killing the royal driver. Later on, he is freed by ULA

arguments. As stated above, there are a number of question marks surrounding the reliability of any source from the medieval period. The key writings for answering this question are: The writings of St. Patrick (Confessio & Epistola), the Annals of Ulster and the Book of Armagh.

course of action, as the alternatives could have had far greater consequences (Kauffman 128). Firstly, Britain could have granted Home Rule to a united Ireland and forced the Ulster Unionists into submission (Kauffman 128). However, this creates several issues, primarily that this would have created more violence. As in Ulster, they had created a Volunteer Fighting Force, which by 1914 had 85,000 to 90,000 members and was constantly improving training and equipment (Kauffman 128). As a result, it was

Although, violent protests hugely contributed to the Civil Rights Movement, the group known as the Shankill Butchers also majorly affected the outcome of the movement. The Shankill Butchers was an Ulster loyalist gang and many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) but were believed to have been acting independently of the UVF . This gang was active in the 1970s in Belfast and was based in the Shankill area. The Shankill Butchers acquired a reputation for indulging in pathological

Why the Scotch-Irish left Ulster The Scotch-Irish trace their ancestry to a few hundred thousand Scottish Lowland Presbyterians who were coerced to move to Ulster, a region in northern Ireland, by the British government in the 1600s. Hoping to augment its control of Ireland, England tried to increase the number of Protestant citizens in Ulster. Resentment from “natives”, however, maintained the group’s distinct cultural identity. Economic pressures, such as: growing rents, multiple crop failures

paramilitaries, such as the Irish Republican Army and the Irish National Liberation Army, had the aim of using force to achieve a united Ireland, with equal rights and no connection to Britain. Whilst the Loyalist paramilitaries, such as the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Defence Organisation, had the aim of protecting and acting upon the violence that had been placed upon the Protestant civilians. Both paramilitary organisations participated in numerous acts of terrorism throughout the 1970’s, 1980’s

Having already established the UVF (Ulster volunteer force) to oppose home rule and secure a union with Great Britain in 1912, they couldn't exactly stand by and allow Great Britain itself go to war alone. A substantial portion of the UVF enlisted and formed the 36th Ulster division which was almost wholly Protestant. Nationalists, mostly Catholic, joined the other two of lord kitcheners " new army " divisions

A Heaney Commentary Heaney’s collection of poems, North, solidifies the connection between myth, history, and the modern conflict in Northern Ireland. As a native from Ulster, the county where the conflicts spurred, Heaney feels responsible in trying to cease the violence of the ongoing war through paper and pen. The poet delves deeply into the history of his people with hopes to find redemption for his ancestors’ sins, and an epiphany to the violence enclosing him. The Grauballe Man, a literary

Osborne and R.J. Cormack from the University of Ulster and the Queens University of Belfast, includes various data collections and gives a view on the unemployment rate between 1971 and 1981. 13.9 percent of the catholic population were unemployed, while only 5.6 percent of the protestants had no work

unsuccessful, including the plantation of Ulster in 1609. The newcomers who were planted into Ireland at the time brought many attributes with them. They desired to change the Irish landscape thoroughly, by bringing with them new agricultural and economic practices they thought to be improvements over more traditional Irish methods. Protestantism, however, was introduced to Ulster somewhat successfully, this success was soon diminished as the native Irish living in Ulster remained Catholic, despite the small

descendants of Lowland Scots, who moved to the northern Irish province of Ulster. They are called 'Scots from Ireland' or 'Ulster Scots,' since few of them had native Irish ancestry. These immigrants founded Truro and Londonderry in Nova Scotia.  Others settled at Chignecto and in Granville, New Dublin, New Donegal (Pictou) and in parts of Hants County. Some common Irish family names: Archibald, Allison, Parks, Fulton and Creelman. The 'Ulster Scots' are often considered part of the larger New England Planter