... things behind him from his own mistakes in which Frank must overcome. One of the biggest one of these is his bad drinking habit. It is expected that on a Friday night after getting his wages Malachy would go out to the pubs and have a drink or two as "drinking pints is like a religious occasion" in Ireland (Thomason classics). However Frank's father ... was a Protestant from Northern Ireland, which doomed him from the start. This was almost as bad as being English, as "[they] were hated throughout Limerick for invading Ireland in the twelfth century. Protestants are associated with them...

• Word Count: 2041
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... that Cal lives in. One of the main aspects of this is the religious bigotry. Even simple little things, like the union jack flags being kept up long past the twelfth of July, and the kerbstones painted in alternating red, white, and blue are noted by Cal as he walks down the street as a sign of growing anger that he and ... live on a Protestant estate, it is inevitable that either one or both of them is going to get hurt eventually. The first victim however is Cal. Simply walking home one night, three Protestant boys, all about his age, beat him up. He manages to escape with no major in...

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

... race for whom no amount of tutoring would do any good. The blame for this, it was supposed, rested on the Anglo-Irish and English policy as practised from the twelfth century throughout the eighteenth centuries. These policies, by segregating the two peoples socially, racially and religiously had kept them artificially divided. Yet, it was reported in 1847 that the starving ... 's rising, trial and execution. 1823 Daniel O'Connell's Catholic Association founded. 1828 O'Connell elected for Clare. 1829 Catholic emancipation passed. Tithe War began. 1837 Accession of Queen Victoria. 1839 Ja...

• Word Count: 4515
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School