Northern Ireland may well be British, but it's Irish too. Many people in the country want to remain British, many want to be reunited with the rest of Ireland, and that caused years and years of civil war, known
While Irish involvement on both sides of the Spanish Civil War has been comprehensively accounted for by historians, there remains the issue of the Irish government's non-intervention in the conflict, even by way of moral support, for the democratic mandate of the Spanish Republic, including the...
The potato was brought to Europe after Europeans made contact with the Americas in 1492; in some places, it largely replaced native cereal crops like barley and wheat, especially for the poor. The large calorie count and ease and quickness of its growth made much of the Irish population ...
The second isPat’s analysis for the The Irish Times on the poll findingsand how it might translate into government formation: that’s if the findings are borne out by the reality of the count. And if that was not enough, there is also thisexcellent piece of anal...
What was the Irish Rebellion of 1641? What is the Sagebrush Rebellion? What rebellion followed Nat Turner's? What was Nat Turner's Rebellion about? What was Nat Turner's rebellion? What were the issues surrounding Dorr's Rebellion?
Since a truce in the Gaza war collapsed after a week last November, ceasefire negotiations have repeatedly failed. Qatar, a major mediator between Israel and Hamas, announced earlier this month it was quitting its role until both parties showed “willingness and serio...
the culture and keep costs low. Many college towns are like this. Austin was once a humble university town with a kind of funk that felt more like Berkeley than stereotypical Texas. Many of the longtime locals I’ve met are livid about how aggressive development and the influx of wealth ...
In each poem, however, Tolson, who was ethnically both African-American and native American, continued to opine about race, and about the difficulty of squaring the actual experiences of American minorities with the idea of equality promised by the American experiment. True, the form of Harlem ...
Known as Changing the Guard or Guard Mounting, the process involves a new guard exchanging duty with the old guard. The soldiers are drawn from one of the five regiments of Foot Guards in the British Army: the Scots Guards, the Irish Guards, the Welsh Guards, the Grenadier Guards and the...
Reviving the study of Greek and Roman history, philosophy and arts,the Renaissance humanists developed an image of “Man” more positive and hopefulthan that of medieval ascetic Christianity: rather than being a miserablesinner awaiting redemption from a pit of fleshly corruption, “Man” was a ...