Introduction to Ireland

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Introduction to Ireland

• Maureen Loughnane
• Associate Director
• Human Rights Program
• The University of Chicago

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Exhibit A
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Exhibit B
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Exhibit C
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Exhibit D
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What were going to talk about

• Geography/history of Ireland
• Irish culture
• The Irish diaspora

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Where is Ireland
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Europe
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Ireland
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Really Quick History of Ireland

• Pre-history
• Celts

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Megaliths

• Stone circle in County Cork, ca 3500BC

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St. Patrick and Catholicism

• Sent by Pope Celestine to Ireland in 432 A.D.

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Irish Catholicism
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The English!

• 1171 - King Henry of England declared
  sovereignty, English colonization begins
• 1509 - Henry VIII, suppression of Catholicism,
  erasure of Irish

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• A mantrap!

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The Potato Famine

• 1847 - Tens of thousands died, many more migrated
  to America

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Irish revolt

• 1916 - Easter rebellion
• 1921 - Peace treaty

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Ireland and Northern Ireland
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The Troubles
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Irish Culture - Music
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More music
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Irish Literature
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Ulysses

• I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the
• rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or
  shall I wear a red yes and
• how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I
  thought well as well him as
• another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask
  again yes and then he
• asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain
  flower and first I put my
• arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he
  could feel my breasts
• all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad
  and yes I said yes I will
• Yes.

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Famous Irish Americans