The history of Dublin & Dublin Castle
The headline of this essay is Ireland. Ireland is split in two parts, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Ireland is a great country with a beautiful nature and a lot of history. The principal religion of the Republic is Roman Catholicism which con-stitutes over 91% of the population. The remaining 9% are mainly Protestant and Jewish with an increasing representation of Islamic and other world religions. The Irish people have two languages – Irish (Gaelic) and English. Irish (Gaelic) is the first language of the Republic and is compulsory in all schools up to secondary level. A few areas speak Irish fluently, and as a new thing all teachers in the Republic must pass an oral examination in Irish in order to be allowed to teach. Ireland is a country that is not like other EU-countries. On our study tour this spring, we were in Dublin. Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and it has 3.6 million people. Below I will tell about Dublin’s history and the most historic ground in Dublin, the location of Dublin Castle.The history of Dublin dates back to approximately 8000 BC, corresponding to the Middle Stone Age. The first farmers on the site appeared in the New Stone Age, and archaeologists have found stone
“The Great Hunger” lasted from 1845 -1849. It was the worst famine in Ireland ever. 1.5 million Irish died and a similar number emigrated mainly to Britain, the USA and Australia. At that time the political responsible was Charles Trevelyan who was in change of economic and social policy. He did not want to interfere with market forces and this caused many deaths. He believed that the famine was God’s will – and so did many starving Irish. This has something to do with the fact that they were Catholics. In school we have read the book Angela’s Ashes. It deals with two Irish emigrants who meet in New York – Angela and Malachy. She gets pregnant and so they have to get married. They do not have a lot of money so they live in a small flat in a poor neighbourhood. After short time they are a family of seven. Malachy uses all their money in bars. Then suddenly the youngest child dies. Angela can not han-dle it and they have to move back to Ireland. There after story deals with the hard terms in Ireland, among other things because they are Yank’s. In my opinion history looks very much alike from 1350-1640. That is why I have cho-sen to “jump” in history, because I want this essay to be as exciting as possible. In 1348 a far more deadly enemy stroke Dublin. The Bubonic Plague also known as the “Black Death” hit the town. At that time Dublin had suburbs that were not sur-rounded by city walls. People inside the walls thought that the plague came from the outside so the city gates were closed. That was a terrible mistake, because rats spread the plague inside and coursed even more infection and death. It left the town to suffer for decades to come.
Some topics in this essay:
Dublin Castle,
Bubonic Plague,
Gunpowder Tower,
Citizen Army,
Michael Collins,
River Liffey,
Westminster London,
Irish Gaelic,
Angela Malachy,
Continental Europe,
dublin castle,
citizen army,
republic ireland,
michael collins,
irish citizen army,
stone age,
irish gaelic,
gunpowder tower,
leaders rebellion,
cork hill,
british empire,
cork hill gate,
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Approximate Word count = 1860
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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