Vocabulary: nihilist, populist, bog, aloof, shillelaghs, itinerant, prevarication, rector, sycophant, arbitrary
Textbook Reading: None
Historical Perspective: None
Assigned Reading:
Nationalism and Irish Peasant 1800-48
Guiding Questions based on the article above:
- Explain four issues that continued to play a role in the devise nature in Ireland
- What advantages and disadvantages did Irish nationalism have in unifying Ireland
- How did education both suppress and promote nationalism
- Explain the meaning behind O’Connell’s statement “poor against poor”
- Explain O’Connell’s legacy both for Ireland and the peasantry
- Explain the Young Irelanders ideals and impact in Ireland
Assigned Videos
The two videos below “The Irish Language and Beauty” and “The Lament for Art O’Leary” deal with the importance of culture and language language. The Irish tradition is but one example of the importance culture drives European thought and action. Watch both videos and answer the following in an essay form.
- Explain the importance of language and poetry as it relates to Irish nationalism.
- Draw historical aspects from “The Lament for Art O’Leary” to show how historical events mix with the language to help create that ideal of nationalism.
Have you ever walked the lonesome hills and heard the curlews cry?
Or seen the raven black as night upon a windswept sky?
To walk the purple heather and hear the westwind cry
To know that’s where the rapparee must die
Since Cromwell pushed us westward to live our lowly lives
Some of us have deemed to fight from Tipperary mountains high
Noble men with wills of iron who are not afraid to die
And who’ll fight with Gaelic honor held on high
A curse upon you Oliver Cromwell, you who raped our Motherland
I hope you’re rotting down in hell for the horrors that you sent
To our misfortunate forefathers whom you robbed of their birthright
“To hell or Connaught” may you burn in hell tonight
Of one such man I’d like to speak a rapparee by name and deed
His family dispossessed and slaughtered they put a price upon his head
His name is known in song and story and his deeds are legends still
And murdered for blood money was young Ned of the hill
And you’ve robbed our homes and fortunes, even drove us from the land
You tried to break our spirit but you’ll never understand
The love of dear old Ireland that will forge an iron will
As long as there are gallant men like young Ned of the hill
A curse upon you Oliver Cromwell, you who raped our Motherland
I hope you’re rotting down in hell for the horrors that you sent
To our misfortunate forefathers whom you robbed of their birthright
“To hell or Connaught” may you burn in hell tonight
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: R. Kavana / T. Woods
Young Ned of the Hill lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Oh who is that minstrel by yonder lone tower?
Whose heart is so tenderly touching with skill?
Oh who could it be but young Ned of the hill?
Who sings, “Lady love, will you come with me now?
Come and live out with me under the bough
I’ll pillow your head where the light fairies tread
If you will but wed with young Ned of the hill”
Young Ned of the hill has no castle, no hall
No bowman or spearman to come at his call
But one little archer of exquisite skill
Has shot a bright shaft for young Ned of the hill
It is hard to escape from this young lady’s bower
For high is the castle and guarded the tower
But the mind knows the way where the heart holds the will
And Eileen is gone with young Ned of the hill – 2013
AP European History 