While the longer backstory of the events that brought Britain “to the brink of civil war” in 1914 (to quote Irish historianRonan Fanning) has filled many scholarly volumes and inspired many histrionic ballads, here’s the tl;dr on the Home Rule Crisis: It was a double dose of historic...
I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; 23 and there shall be no remnant of
At the Camellia, where Dong-baek has decided to hire Jung-sook, Hyang-mi laments Dong-baek’s tough life. Dong-baek claims her life has been like “cotton candy” lately, but her mom showing up brought her back to reality. Yong-shik’s attentions did move her, but it’s all over ...
When on the bus driving through the square in Ballaghaderreen for the first time to start his new job, he saw a girl with long red hair skipping down the road. He told us later that he thought to himself, “I’ll marry that girl one day,”, and indeed he did, that girl was my...
March 31, 1972 3月31日, 1972 Others spent some time in church today, listening to one or maybe all seven words of the cross. And I wonder what the attended really understood—the great mystery. For we are told when they came to the place called the Skul
听力原文:M: You know these people who want to visit the company? W: Yes. You are meeting them next week, aren't you? M: Hum. Where should I take them, the office perhaps? W: I suppose you prefer this office because it is more comfortable. M: Well. I did think here, yes. But...
Ever since then it has been an important item of British diet, especially in Ireland; during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was the main food of the Irish, and there was starvation and famine when the crop failed, as it did in the 1840s. Also in Ireland, an illegal and ...
It was a hard life at first, but she grew to love it. When the Irish came and took all the jobs up, the wages had already lowered to the point that Shannon quit, and worked full time writing poetry by night and selling dresses to rich ladies by day. She saved enough money to buy...
People probably didn’t care much. They still got bonfires and a night of partying. While churches in other parts of the world had All Saints Day on November 1, not much was going on for All Hallow’s Eve (Halloween) until the potato famine forced Irish immigrants to come to the United...
With prepping and survival comes bugging out and a bug-out-bag. Bugging out is simply quickly fleeing the area that is under threat to go to another place, that you have hopefully planned to go to. It is always a good idea to know where you will be bugging out to and to have a ...