Language as a Cultural Indicator There are over 3‚000 languages in the world. The major language groups are: Chinese | 950 million speakers | English | 550 million speakers | Hindi | 350 million speakers | Spanish | 330 million speakers | Portuguese | 180 million speakers | Language and Culture Language is a powerful expression of culture and is closely associated with identity. * Language is a means of uniting people. * Language is also a means of controlling people. (Gaeilge)
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Anglo-Irish treaty was drafted and signed by representatives of both the Irish and British Governments. After centuries of bitter feuding involving both sides the British Government was for the first time to offer the Irish independence. In this essay I seek to outline how the Irish revolution of 1919 and 1921 was successful in achieving Irish independence. Richard English says‚ “There had never been any chance of a formal military victory… nor in practice of the British recognising an Irish republic
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influenced emigration. New immigrants and industrial growth transformed American society. The Irish “began at the lowest levels of the American workforce. Men dug canals; laid railroad track; mined coal‚ copper‚ gold‚ and silver; cleaned stables; drove horses; and laid building
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There were many factors that contribute the Irish to immigrate to America in the 17th century. Religion‚ oppression‚ and famine are some of the reasons that pushed the Ireland to overseas to a new land‚ America. Before the 17th century‚ the English crown besieged Ireland‚ but because both countries where associated by the Roman Catholic Church the colonization was not as though among the civilians; however‚ that change when the pope excommunicate King Henry because of his divorce. This cause a new
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more notorious groups like ISIS or Al-Qaeda‚ be it in current activity or geographic location‚ the Provisional Irish Republican Army serves as a good example of a more tightly knit terrorist group that covers only a small geographic region. The Provisional Irish Republican Army is a paramilitary group located in Northern Ireland‚ who used to operate throughout‚ Northern Ireland‚ the Irish Republic‚ Great Britain‚ and Europe‚ with their tactics consisting of the use of bombings‚ assassinations‚ kidnapping
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violence the main reason for Irish independence 1801-1922?” Violence has always been a part of Ireland‚ fuelled by religion‚ politics and nationalism. While it did play a significant role in Ireland being granted independence at the end of 1922‚ it was the motives behind the violence that arguably had more of an impact. Ireland entered the century with violence in the county of Wicklow‚ with prisoners still being shipped to Austrailia. Due to the violence the Irish Parlement and the British government
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struggles of people of Ireland. What interests me most about this work is how Swift is able to show compassion through context in a work whose words would normally shock and anger any sane person. It is interesting to see how his careful use of language and imagery manages to both sicken and illuminate the reader. His shock value grabs the careful attention and scrutiny of the reader and‚ in doing so‚ accomplishes it’s goal‚ to awaken and alarm those who ignore the tragedy of Ireland’s plight.
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The Irish occupy a unique place in the history of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade‚ being white Europeans who were both slaves and slave owners‚ depending on which way the political and economic winds were blowing from the seventeenth century onwards. From the ruled to the rulers the Irish played a significant and almost universal role in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and their story is one which is deserving of a greater knowledge both at home in Ireland but also worldwide. In relation to the question
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with the past.’ (Hobsbawm‚ p. 176). This cycle of cause and effect is clearly apparent in Irish history‚ both preceding and following independence in 1922‚ indicating their tradition is carefully crafted‚ as a result of radical change‚ to acknowledge only the past they wish to align themselves with. Incensed at hundreds of years of oppressive English rule (an unsuitable past they chose to forget)‚ Irish nationalists sought to reinvent the past to suit the needs of the present and ‘a potent set
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The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) was formed in 1969. The Official IRA declared a cease-fire in the summer of 1972‚ and subsequently the term IRA began being used for the organization that developed from the ’Provisional ’ IRA. Organized into small‚ tightly knit cells under the leadership of the Army Council the IRA has remained largely unchanged. It is difficult to know the exact number of IRA members because of the political and economic persecution that comes with publicly endorsing
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