Influential United Kingdom and the influenced Ireland

Author: Andrew McGregor, April 10th, 2010

Just as the magnetic ends attracting each other, simple things have been able to attract the complex life structure of some people and complex things have been able to attract the hearts of the people who lead a simple life. How ironic this concept seems? However, this concept has been proved so many times by many people, that there is no way of denying this inevitable truth. Likewise another instance for this piece of truth is the influence which the Irish have for the British ways of living and vice verse.

Though much of the past has seen feuds between these two great nations and they were due to the simple living styles of the Irish people. The Irish had been too trusting and they had paid a huge price for this action with the lives of many, in the wars that ensued after this. The English found the living style of the Irish amusing and thereby came to a decision that they are not worthy to rule themselves effectively. They also saw that the Island was rich and was having almost all of the riches in the world. This brought about the conflicts between the Irish and British people which resulted in the British conquering all of the Irish lands.

Domination of English over the Irish had started from time unknown, but the actual beginning of the feud may have started in the fifteenth century, when Henry the eighth resolved to bring Ireland under the control of the English government. This was initiated due to several groups of the Irish clan beginning to oppose the English rules and dictatorship and such the Island would not become a base for future rebellions or foreign invasions of England. In 1541, Henry converted Ireland to a full Kingdom and proclaimed himself as King of Ireland at a meeting of the Irish Parliament that year.

The fire of the feud between Ireland and England was fueled by this action and many rose against this preposterous activity by the English people. Later on, the immigrants in England were subjected to various forms of insult and most commonly referred incident is the order by the government which prompted English people to place plaques outside English bars and pubs which read, “No Dogs, No Irish”. But they had the nerve of copying and plundering the valuable resources from Ireland during their period of reign there.

In the mid sixteenth and the early part of the seventeenth century, England’s crown governments made it possible of the people of England to migrate to Ireland and take care of the plantations there. But in 1791, there came a new era for the people of Ireland which was the introduction of the society of the united Irishmen and in 1800, they were brought under the Act of Union with the United Kingdom.

During the period of the Englishmen in Ireland, they had made several finest English architectural examples across the Irish lands which were admired by the Irish in spite of their hatred for Englishmen. But by the introduction of the Act of Union, the Irish and the Englishmen have been able to share their knowledge and live in peace after the eighteenth in a slow and steady manner. The Irish are now enjoying the same rights that an Englishman gets in England and the same prevails in Ireland too.

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