Ireland. A history. Part II. Иностранный язык. Фомина И.В. - 7 стр.

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plantation in Ulster – its scale or its systematized attempt to avoid former
failures by its part provision of capital through the City of London companies?
5. The Irish Society, that was made responsible for colonizing, changed the name of
one of the cities. What city was it? What was its new name?
6. One of the many colourful things carried by Orange Lodges in 12 July processions
through Belfast to this day vividly depicts what happened on he bridge at Portadown
on a cold November day in 1641. What thing do you think it is – a portrait of William
of Orange, a banner, an icon?
7. There is a story about an incident of those days: “ A party of some 100 Protestant
men, women and children who had been seized from their homes, robbed, and
stripped of most of their clothes, were herded together onto the bridge. They were
then thrown or driven over the parapet into the water below where they were
drowned or if they could swim were shot or knocked on the head as they came to
shore. Some of the Irish even took to boats and bashed them with oars as they
floundered in the waters. There was said to be a ghostly figure which arose from
waters for months afterwards – a woman naked to the waist, very white, her hair
dishevelled, ‘her eyes’, it was said, ‘seeming to twinkle in her head as she cried,
“Revenge! Revenge!” When could these events happen?
8. ‘There is a famous story of one fat man who felt ha had to stay indoors because he
thought he noticed his neighbours eyeing him greedily. Not that it can have been any
sort of joke at all to have been in the city at the time.’ What time is this joke about?
What city was the place of those events?

                         Make a summary of Chapter One.

                                    Chapter Two

                                 TWO NATIONS?

                                       Unit IV.

    1. Read and translate the text.
   Roman Catholicism, for better or worse, is so much part of the atmosphere of
Ireland that Irish national identity can seem inseparable from it. The Pope himself
apparently assumed that it was inseparable. The constitution which republicans wrote
for Ireland in 1937 actually went out of its way to suggest that this was so, formally
recognizing the Catholic Church to be the Church of the majority of the people. Yet
here is a strange paradox: the very nationalists who wrote that Constitution also
insisted that the people of the whole island were members of one ‘nation’. The fact
that about a quarter of the Irish people do not want to be part of the Irish nation just
because they do not like Roman Catholicism has somehow always been blandly
ignored by such nationalists as if it were an irrelevant fact.
    The eventual establishment of the Reformation in Ireland had given all church
buildings to a triumphant Protestant State. By the mid-nineteenth century, churches
specifically for Catholics had already been built again, though there were still some