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A group for cross-disciplinary discussion of topics related to Irish history, literature, and culture.

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Christian Case edited the blog post Works Cited in the group Irish Studies: 7 years, 8 months ago

Yeats, W. B. The Celtic Twilight. Macmillan and Co., 1893. Print.

Yeats, W.B. “The Song of Wandering Aengus.” The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Springer, 1991. Pp. 59 – 60 […]
Emilio Garcia wrote a new blog post Remembrance Day Bombing in the group Irish Studies: 7 years, 8 months ago

The Remembrance Day Bombing, also known as the Poppy Day Massacre, occurred in late 1987 in the town of Enniskillen. The bombing resulted in the death of ten people, nine civilians and one police officer, and the […]
Carina Chanthabandith edited the blog post About the Authors in the group Irish Studies: 7 years, 8 months ago

ABOUT US

Jade Chang: Hi! I’m second year Social Studies Adolescent Education Major at SUNY Geneseo. I’ve been interested in Irish history since I took an Immigration history class with Professor Mapes. Whi […]
Olivia Schmidt edited the blog post Works Cited and About Us in the group Irish Studies: 7 years, 8 months ago

Bloom-Cooper, Louis. “Bloody Sunday: Was the NICRA March Illegal or the Ban
on Marches Unlawful?” Political Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 2, Apr. 2006, pp. 227–
237. EBSCOhost, 10 Nov. 2018.

Brod […]
Hailey Merry edited the blog post Bloody Sunday 1972 in the group Irish Studies: 7 years, 8 months ago

On January 30, 1972 a shooting in the Bogside are of Derry in Northern Ireland occurred. In January of 1972, a ban on marches was put into place, and was extended into early February. The Northern Ireland […]
Eamon Danieu edited the blog post Glenfada Park in the group Irish Studies: 7 years, 8 months ago

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“Jim Wray fell close to the alleyway, immobilized by a gunshot wound in the back…To the horror of eyewitness, Wray was approached by a Para who shot him again in t […]
Eamon Danieu edited the blog post Shooting of Jack Duddy in the group Irish Studies: 7 years, 8 months ago

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In previous centuries, walls were breached with battering rams and siege towers. In Derry, in 1972 the Paras Support Company used armored personnel carriers, four […]
Carina Chanthabandith edited the blog post Borders, Boundaries, and their Function in Northern Irish History in the group Irish Studies: 7 years, 8 months ago

Timeline of the Protestant and Catholic tension in Northern Ireland

First, there is the cultural boundary created by English colonists within Ireland. On one side is the Catholic Irish who resented the […]
Christian Case edited the blog post Evolution of Irish Stereotypes in the group Irish Studies: 7 years, 8 months ago

Negative stereotypes in Ireland trace back to their Celtic ancestors who were once openly criticized by outsiders as barbaric heathens with crude traditions and little understanding of the world. Druid traditions […]
Olivia Schmidt edited the blog post Terence O’Neill Becomes Prime Minister in the group Irish Studies: 7 years, 8 months ago

Terence O’Neill was a member of the Ulster Unionist Party, however, he was constantly involving himself in Catholic affairs–meeting with them, attending events, and actively trying to reverse statutes excluding a […]

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