Introduction to Irish history and civilization



Introduction to Irish history and civilization

Texts and Documents on Ireland

Édité par Estelle Epinoux

:: Résumé    :: Sommaire    :: Détails


General presentation                                                                           
Map of Ireland- Republic of Ireland- Éire                                           
Map of Northern Ireland                                                                     
Chronological landmarks                                                                     

Chapter I: PRE-NORMAN AND NORMAN IRELAND
Doc. 1 : On The Life of St Patrick (Leabhar Breac)                            
Doc. 2 : The Life of Columba                                                              
Doc. 3 : Map of ancient territorial division of Ireland upon the coming of the Vikings                    
Doc. 4 : The Bull of Pope Adrian IV Empowering Henry II to Conquer Ireland, A.D 1155            
Doc. 5 : The Island of Ireland, 1300 (map)                                         

Chapter II: COLONIZATION                                                         
Doc. 6 : A Statute enacted in Kilkenny, A.D 1367                             
Doc. 7 : The Flight of the Earls, 1607                                                 
Doc. 8 : Act for the Settlement of Ireland, 1652                                 
Doc. 9 : Effect of Cromwell on land ownership in Ireland  
Doc. 10 : A Jacobite Narrative of the War in Ireland (…), 1660        
Doc. 11 : Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery (The Penal Laws)
Doc. 12 : An Answer to a Paper, called 'A Memorial of the Poor Inhabitants, Tradesmen'        

Chapter III: NINETEENTH CENTURY IRELAND       
Doc. 13 : The Act of Union, 2 July 1800                                              
Doc. 14 : Extracts from The Cork Examiner -The Great Hunger-, 1840
Doc. 15 : The Young Ireland rising, 1848                                              
Doc. 16 : A Nation once again, 1840s                                       
Doc. 17 : Orange and Green (Thomas Davis), 1840s                
Doc. 18 : The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland, 1892       

 

Chapter IV: THE PATH TO FREEDOM, TO THE IRISH FREE STATE AND TO THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND                         

 

Doc. 19 : Declaration of the Republic of Ireland, 24 April 1916        
Doc. 20 : Easter 1916: W.B. Yeats                                                                     
Doc. 21 : The Path to Freedom, August 1922                                    
Doc. 22 : The Government of Ireland Act, 1920                                
Doc. 23 : External Relations Act, 1936
Doc. 24 : Bunreacht na hÉireann, Constitution of Ireland, 1 July 1937
Doc. 25 : On Language and the Irish Nation, 17 March 1943                            
Doc. 26 : The Republic of Ireland Act, 1948                                      
Doc. 27 : European Communities Act, 1972                                                      
Doc. 28 : Fifth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1972                

Chapter V: NORTHERN IRELAND                                               
Doc. 29 : Bobby Sands’ Diary, March 1981                                                      
Doc. 30 : New Ireland Forum, 1984                                                    
Doc. 31 : The Good Friday Agreement, 10 April 1998                      
Doc. 32 : The Good Friday Agreement : Decommissioning               
Doc. 33 : Distribution of Catholic population in Northern Ireland
(map)                                    
Doc. 34 : Distribution of Catholic population in Belfast (map)                         

Chapter VI: IRELAND TODAY: FEATURES                                
Doc. 35 : Expenditure on Gross National Income… (chart)                               
Doc. 36 : Estimated Immigration classified by Sex and Nationality
(1996-2002)(chart)               
Doc. 37 :Ability to speak Irish by age group and sex, 2002 (graph) 
Doc. 38 : Percentage of the population age 3 years and over in
Gaeltacht areas….(chart)                      
Doc. 39 : Irish speakers in each province at each census since 1861
(chart)                                   
Doc. 40 : Ireland Votes for Divorce, November 1995                                        
Doc. 41 : Referendum on Twenty-Fifth Constitutional Amendment,
6 March 2002                       
Doc. 42 : Components of population changes, 1926-2002 (graph)    
Doc. 43 : Urban/rural population, 1926-2002 (graph)                                        
Doc. 44 : Population of urban areas, 1996-2002 (chart)                     
Doc. 45 : Population by religious groups, 1991-2002 (chart)
 
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