"The Constant Revolution"-- Summary of Important Events that brought Ireland to the political turmoil that it is today.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:52:27
Category: / Society & Culture / Environment
Length: 3 pages (797 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Environment
Length: 3 pages (797 words)
Northern Ireland, IRA, Sinn Fèin, Belfast, The Civil Rights Movement, Bloody Sunday, Derry, British Army, Valhalla, Black and Tans, Michael Collins, The Orange Order, terrorism, Catholics fighting Protestants: these terms come to mind when one reflects on the years of violence and struggle that have plagued Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland for so many years. "For centuries, a bloody conflict has raged in Northern Ireland between extremist Protestants, loyal to …
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…disarm, the British Army to agree to stop attacking Catholic villages, and for both parliaments to reach a diplomatic agreement in which both sides are satisfied.
"All this is necessarily futuristic. It is a tragedy for Ireland that its sense of nationhood is still not realized and must be talked of in terms of some future time. But until that time comes, Ireland, North and South, will experience the deforming effects of frustrated nationhood." (Holland 204)
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