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1. Abbey Theatre -- Irish Renaissance
   The Abbey Theatre is an institution in Ireland. Established in 1912 it has housed some of the best known and best loved Irish and International, actors and productions. The Arts in Ireland are as popular as ever at the moment and theatre going is an ever-increasing pastime for many. To have any contact with The Abbey is a privilege that many have had and few will forget.
2. Republic of Ireland -- Irish Catholics
   According to the Central Statistics Office, the Jewish population of the Republic of Ireland (Eire) in 2002 numbered 1,790 out of a total population of almost 4 million. The first mention of Jews living in Ireland occurs in the Annals of Innifallen of 1079. However, most of Ireland’s Jews arrived in the 1880s, mainly from Lithuania. The Jewish element of the Irish population reached its peak in the 1940s when it numbered about 5,500. At that time the capital city Dublin had an area that became known as ‘Little Jerusalem’.
3. Irish History -- Northern Ireland
   Subject: 4) Chronological list of dates from Irish History c.3000BC Megalithic tombs first constructed. c.700BC Celts arrive from parts of Gaul and Britain. Ireland divided into provinces. (This according to a contributor is reconstructed folk history and not based on the archaeology.) c.AD350 Christianity reaches Ireland. 400-800 Kingdom of Dalriada extends from Northeastern Ireland to Scotland. Christianity brought to Scotland by St. Columcille and others.
4. Easter Rising -- Irish Volunteers
   The Easter Rising was an insurrection by Irish Republicans against British rule, which took place over the Easter weekend of 1916. The goal of the rebel forces was to take over the city of Dublin using the element of surprise. They hoped to instigate a national uprising in Ireland, which would replace the British government with an independent Irish one. The uprising was badly mismanaged and quickly suppressed. But Britain was at war with Germany and had no tolerance for insurrection. The severe British reprisals had the major impact of undercutting the moderate "home rule" position and moving most Irish nationalists into demands for an independent republic.
5. Northern Ireland -- Irish Catholics
   The strife in Northern Ireland can be traced back 800 years. In fact, there's an apocryphal story about a phone call between two friends -- an Irish politician and an English parliamentarian -- at the start of the Irish civil war in the 1920s. According to lore, the Englishman asked his Irish friend, "Is it true that there's an uprising in Ireland?" and the Irishman replied, "Aye, 'tis true." "When did it start?" the Englishman asked.
6. Easter Rising -- Irish Republic
   This was the major flaw in Connolly’s strategy for the Easter Rising. On the one hand, he was engaged in day-to-day struggles of the working class through the Irish TGWU. On the other he was training a much smaller and select group, separately from this, in the Citizens’ Army, with the goal of an insurrection, with or without the support of the masses.
7. Oliver Cromwell -- Irish Catholics
   Oliver Cromwell was a snake and gave no one his mercy. He and his troops enthusiastically slaughtered the Irish people and destroyed everything in their path. He would rather kill the Irish than even lay eyes on them - and he did. He and his troops ravaged and devastated the land. Defenseless people (men, women and children) were murdered by the scores with absolutely no regard whatsoever. Basically, if you were in his path you were a goner.
8. Warren G. Harding -- Republican Party
   Warren Harding was a handsome, amiable man who looked like a President but hardly acted like one. He won election by a landslide but did nothing with his mandate. A conservative Republican, he favored a return to “normalcy” after Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom program of business regulation. Scandals rocked Harding's Presidency and contributed to his untimely death in office.
9. Oliver Cromwell -- Army
   Cromwell, though greatly disliking the policy of the Presbyterians, yet gave little support at first to the army in resisting parliament. In May 1647 in company with Skippon, Ireton and Fleetwood, he visited the army, inquired into and reported on the grievances, and endeavoured to persuade them to submit to the parliament." If that authority falls to nothing,"he said," nothing can follow but confusion."The Presbyterians... now engaged in a plan for restoring the king under their own control, and by the means of a Scottish army, forced on their policy, and on the 27th of May ordered the immediate disbandment of the army, without any guarantee for the payment of arrears. A mutiny was the consequence. The soldiers refused to disband, and on the 3rd of June Cromwell, whom, it was believed, the parliament intended to arrest, joined the army." If he would not forthwith come and lead them,"they had told him," they would go their own way without him."The supremacy of the army without a guiding hand meant anarchy, that of the Presbyterians the outbreak of another civil war.
10. Terrorism -- United States
    Terrorism is the use of force or violence against persons or property in violation of the criminal laws of the United States for purposes of intimidation, coercion, or ransom. (FEMA) Learn more

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