... , because Jake in Catholics and Chuckie is Protestant. They defend each other and realize that their differences are few and far between. The author is trying to tell their fictional story in a way to show people that there is no reason that Catholics and Protestants can't get along. Throughout the book there is an escalating feel that the cease fire is ... . The book uses incidents of similarity to real life occurrences that gives it an accurate feel of the complexities surrounding cease-fire Belfast and Northern Ireland. The people of the story are still so affected by the times of turm...

• Word Count: 1310
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... day that quickly was known as Bloody Sunday. I believe that we will never know the full story, or one non-differential one. Because as time goes by, the least likely this chapter of the big story will be finished with no error. When I speak of the "big story" I of course mean the conflict between Ireland and N. Ireland (and the British). And this big ... story is one that seems to be a never-ending one. It all started back in Tudor times when ... not all, Irish nationalists marching that day were angry at the IRA for not going to defend them. All those people who died due to Bloody Sun...

• Word Count: 1794
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... Protestant elite. Castle Rackrent indicates Edgeworth's hybridity in regards her "Anglo-Irishness" and heralds the beginnings of a reflection on nationhood and the salient function of women in the story. Both the women and the servants are represented as victims in the novel, however they are oppressed in many ways and this is expressed through Thady's male voice as a narrator ... up in bed and said "Now I understand my Irish subjects", this is because Maria Edgeworth's novel tells its readers about the entire History of Ireland and tells the story of the four generations of the Rackren...

• Word Count: 1620
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the event would later be proven true the words he used were just as violent and incentive as those spoken by the British army, the only difference being its alternate story. The use of the word "massacre" is especially incentive and it seems now that this man was actually attempting to create anger among Catholics and incite violence and ... ...

• Word Count: 2235
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate

... 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. During the First World War Dublin Castle was used as a Red Cross military hospital for British ... ...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... desparate need for both goverments to take a strong hand and give Northern Ireland the political reform it needed and had been protesting for. The British Army and Government had their story, however, marchers, residents of Bogside and Irish journalists, such as Mark Farnan, who were there to cover the march, challenge this account. Many of them claim that the soldiers fired ... ...

• Word Count: 1861
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... today to express my grave concern for the most ominous humanitarian issue facing Northern Ireland today: abortion. Abortion in Northern Ireland is not just a simple issue; it is the shameful story of a democratic society that has not allowed women to access their fundamental human rights. Abortion in Northern Ireland is not a religious issue; it is a humanitarian issue about our social and ... ...

• Word Count: 1614
• Approx Pages: 6

... between the Protestants and Catholics at that time. In my opinion, the novel itself is three different types of book all merged into one. As well as being part love story part thriller, it also carries a moral meaning as well. Northern Ireland's troubles as a whole are also talked about, alongside it's connection to Britain and the way both the Catholics and ... ...

• Word Count: 1649
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School