How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe The author Thomas Cahill was in 1940 in New York City and had Irish-American parents that raised him in Queens and the Bronx. He is said to be a lifelong scholar by the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. He studied ancient Greek and Latin literature as well as medieval philosophy, scripture, and theology at Fordham University where he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree.
Why did Sir John Davies only criticize the inability of Irish people themselves rather than England’s imperial colonization method in explaining why Ireland was never subdued? Why doesn't Davies see a fault in the approach? In the beginning Davies brings up a “defect that hindered” was that “a barbarous country must first be broken by a war before it will be capable of good government; and when it is fully subdued and conquered, if it be not well planted and governed after the conquest it will soon return to the former barbarism.” Davies claimed that the Irish were “like wild fruit trees” in their old traditions to become one with England. When I read the document I expected details such as military faults in leadership and strategy, but it
The Scotch-Irish people were one of the numerous immigrants who looked for shelter and alleviation in America. The Scotch-Irish appeared in the mid-seventeenth century when the English government, on edge to dominate Ireland, removed Lowland Scots as pilgrims to the province of Ulster in northern Ireland. For around a century the Scotch-Irish squeezed out a living in Ireland, yet in the early piece of the eighteenth century their monetary condition endured a progression of grievous inversions. As a result, a flood of maybe five thousand Scotch-Irish moved to America in 1717. Before the end of the eighteenth century, four more influxes of Scotch-Irish withdrew Ireland for America and a few hundred thousand Ulstermen settled in about each area of the English provinces.
In the late 800’s King Alfred the Great was a great influence to Anglo Saxon literature because his “military and political success” (Amodio) led to a period of stability where culture and literature thrived, but that period of time did not last very long. The English were fearful of the Vikings coming to attack
The oppressive past that the Scots-Irish faced in their home country optimalized the isolated geography of the Greater Appalachian region, as they were able to construct a society that was rooted in individual liberty as opposed to materialism. When living in Great Britain, the Scots-Irish were forced out due to a large increase in rent put upon by the landlords. As noted by a Scot-Irish in American Nations, “We having been, before we came here, so much oppressed and harassed by under landlords in our country, from which we with great losses, dangers, and difficulties came [to]... this foreign world to be freed from such oppression” (Woodard 104). Thus, as evidenced, the Borderlanders travelled to the New World in search of a life free of oppression.
To the fellow English conservatives point of view, the Irish culture was just another lucky recipient to be blessed with the advancement of English culture. To conservatives, the Irish were ancient and the English were advanced, therefore England had to make the Irish realize their ancient faults and correct them. The Irish, however, were anything but grateful for this English invasion upon their customs and traditions. The Irish were not fools. After seeing many countries fall under England’s empire, they knew that their culture could not co-exist with England’s, especially when their cultures were so very different (Doc 13).
“We got a dead woman on the merry-go-round.”(pg 21) Right away at the beginning of NYPD Red 2 there is action and suspense. James Patterson’s and Marshall Karp’s book NYPD Red 2 is a fast paced novel where two cops who work for the elite task force in New York City called NYPD Red must find the Hazmat Killer before the the Hazmat Killer strikes again. NYPD Red 2 is one of James Patterson’s best works of fiction and one of Marshall Karp’s best books. The story is told from two points of view.
Gender role is basically an arrangement of societal standards directing what sorts of practices are by and large viewed as satisfactory, suitable or alluring for a man in view of their real or actual sex. In this paper I will focus on the gender roles with reference to the mini-epic” the tain” This piece of Irish literature presents a very good distinction between the old period and the medieval time period. Formerly, men were the protagonists, leaders or the saviors in the literature. A man had to go to the wars and fights, to preserve the territory and honor (women) was their duty.
The British had the “us and them” mindset which goes along with the classification stage. The Irish were mostly apart of the Irish Roman Catholic religion and the British did not suppose that such person existed, which goes with dehumanization. Lord Chancellor Bowes in Dublin made a published ruling that ``the law does not suppose any such person to exist as an Irish Roman Catholic” (Gallagher). The British to this day deny anything happened.
Religion conquered many individual’s opinions and mindset during the 1800’s, but religion became the biggest conflict between the Irish and the Natives. The country at the time possessed mainly Protestants, but with the accumulating Irish population, the Protestants felt their religion would decrease and become the minority. In Nativist New Yorker Disparagers Irish Arrivals, George Strong describes the churches of the Irish and the conflicts they faced, because of the differences in both religions. “Met a Know-Nothing procession moving uptown… They looked as if they might have designs on St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and I think the Irish would have found them ugly customers”
Overall, these elements all aid in emphasizing the vast ‘superiority’ of the Normans. Firstly, when examining their respective feasts the Anglo-Saxons are depicted as immoral while the Normans are depicted as righteous. In the feast Harold and his men are pictured drinking, two of which with drinking horns. These drinking horns were “often shown in the hands of morally weak or evil characters and had become symbols of vanity and sin”.
I chose this chapter for many different reasons. I feel that this chapter is well written, controversial and will always remain relevant within Irish history and among Irish historians.
For Peers, representations of ‘this childlike state confirmed the superiority of the Europeans, a superiority which even the sepoy was alleged to acknowledge’ (134). Yet, the evil-looking sepoy standing in front of Canning has nothing of the innocence of a child or the submission of an ‘inferior’ being. This contrast suggests that being merciful toward him on the grounds that he is not fully
(Bois, 2005 [1903]) But, much of their identity was pressurised by feeling the need to assimilate and conform to religious structures and certain standards in the Anglo-Saxon (Solomos, 2005) society to which they belonged. (Bois, 2005
The planners of the rebellion were Irish landowners that included Gaelic Irish and Old English. In examining the depositions taken at the time, the issues surrounding land is an integral determinant for the outbreak of
