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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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… ”

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.

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

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

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

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

for a better life by moving to the United States only because of the circumstances that had occurred in their homeland. Scots-Irish left Ulster, which was their homeland, for different purposes. Religious persecution and economic factors were reasons that pushed them away, which according to The Scots-Irish Journey to the New World, “…Between 1714 and 1719 Ulster suffered a succession of bad harvests and by 1718 the linen industry was also in recession” (“The Scots-Irish Journey…”). As the Scotch

Introductory Paragraphs When the First World War broke out in 1914, Home Rule was postponed, with many believing the war would be over by the winter. The Irish view on World War I was a mixed one. Ulster Unionists, who wanted to show devotion to the monarchy and the Union, favoured it. In what would become the Free State, the story was quite different. Many Nationalists did not sign up, despite this, over 250,000 Irish men fought in the war, many of these men were Nationalists. The draw of the “King’s

One very brave woman who fought for Women and racial rights! Born in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, around 1797. Sojourner Truth was what she named herself, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree. She is an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activists. Sojourner was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. She had at least 3 of her children sold into slavery, but she escaped with her daughter to freedom in 1826. After she has escaped slavery, she became a women's rights activists

Since the creation of Northern Ireland in 1921, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) had held power, being the dominate lawmaking body in Ireland. Supported by a largely Protestant unionist and loyalist community, the UUP passed many policies that discriminated against the Catholic and nationalist minority. “As time went on, Catholics and nationalists began to examine and retaliate against the issues they were faced with due to discrimination in hopes of gaining equality, and by 1964 the Campaign for