Word: irelands
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Caliban's words to the intruders on his island seem uniquely fitted to one of the bleakest acts of cultural colonization in history: the English subjugation of Ireland, which began with the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169. In the flowering of Irish monastic culture during what were once routinely called the Dark Ages, the visual arts in Ireland had reached a splendor unequaled in the rest of Europe. But war, burning and pillage destroyed most of the relics...
...Book of Durrow, but also two of the four volumes-Mark and John-that make up the Gospel Book of Kells. This 8th century work, originally housed in the monastery of Kells in County Meath and later moved to Dublin for safekeeping during Cromwell's rape of Ireland, is the most famous illuminated manuscript in the West...
...historians would dispute that in the heyday of colonialism the British government consciously cultivated religious antagonisms. A good case might be made that it continued to do so until very recently. Certainly its support of the Unionist political machine which controlled Northern Ireland from its creation with an iron hand until the troubles began demonstrates a very self-benefiting partiality in terms of retaining the province. No honest observer of the situation in Ulster during those years could have overlooked the undemocratic and oppressive nature of the Protestant-dominated provincial government at Stormont, but it is possible--and there...
...meantime, the British Army has emerged by default as the dominant political force in Ulster politics. To speak of the government alone is not a truthful description of British involvement in Northern Ireland. A full account must include a description of the unique role which the army has appropriated itself in the province. One of the most crucial facts in Ulster politics is that the army has not acted with the equanimity the government claims to support. Essentially, the army's role as a "peace-keeping" force has not dissuaded it from adopting a political bias...
There is no final solution in Northern Ireland for the foreseeable future. Those who say there can be a final solution generally are just asserting that their own position is the right one, nor that it should be. The incontrovertible obstacle remains national affiliation. The Catholic side desires unification with the south, while the Protestant side insists on maintaining the link with Britain. The disagreement is absolute with no space for compromise or concession. Power-sharing may succeed on a pragmatic basis and as an effective counter to the 'men of violence,' and the present troubles may even...