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Essays in Northern Ireland 1965-85 category
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Why did British troops enter northern Ireland in 1969
... 2500 people being disenfranchised . Another example was that of employment . During 1959 , there was lot of unemployment in northern Ireland and so the council decided that employment would become a protestant privilege . The formation of the ...
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Do both Levack and Oldridge support this view of the changing role of the Devil in Early Modern Europe?
... they could do nothing to earn the love of God and lived in devote prayer. The Devil was said to be everywhere, and Martin Luther once described Satan as 'the prince and God' of the earth. Satan was changed from ...
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"How important was Catholic Emancipation in religion and politics in Englandand Ireland between c1820 and 1829?"
... reformists like Canning, who between 1822-1825 had spoken in favour of religious liberty for nonconformists and Catholics alike. It was strongly opposed by reactionaries, like, Duke of Wellington, Liverpool and Peel. Opponents of Emancipation were strong on the whole in ...
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"In the years 1865-1868 the Fenians did not pose a serious threat to British Rule in Ireland" To what extent do the extracts support this view?
... a poor economic situation in Ireland. Throughout these desperate times the British government had not given any help to the Irish and so the Irish felt extremely resentful towards them. The peaceful methods that had originally been used by various ...
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"Mary's marriage to Philip of Spain was her worst mistake" Discuss.
... prepared to risk their lives to prevent Mary from marrying Philip. The Protestantism of most of the leading rebels suggests that the rebellion was aided by a vaguely anti-Catholic thrust, but this was a fairly unimportant cause. Numerically, the rebellion ...
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"Since 1972 the British Government has tried a number of solutions to the crisis in Northern Ireland" How successful has this process been?
... out this problem. They introduced internment, which meant that they could put any terrorist in jail without trial to try to reduce the terrorists. This wasn't very successful and the terrorist groups like the IRA and Ulster Defence Association grew ...
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"Since 1972 the British Government has tried a number of solutions to the crisis in Northern Ireland." How successful has this process been?
... are the most powerful Protestant party. They, like the SDLP are opposed to violence. The Rev. Ian Paisley founded the DUP in 1971; they are not opposed to violence but will not condemn it. The Ulster Democratic Army and the ...
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"The Failure of the British to Solve the Irish Question Arises From Ignorance and A Racist, Imperialist Mentality", How Far Do You Agree With This View of British Policy?
... Until 1886, British policy was to retain the union whilst instituting some reforms but mainly maintaining order. Ireland was ruled from London, and pressures came to give Ireland "Home Rule", specifically from the "Irish Home Rule Party". Home ...
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"The single most important factor in promoting the recent peace initiatives has been the role of ordinary people." How far do you agree with this view?
... worked to achieve peace and showed that ordinary people did want peace and opposed violence. However this was not a very important factor. The Peace People were set up in 1976 and fell apart in 1980, which was 18 years ...
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"Was internment the main cause of the events of Bloody Sunday?"
... took place in the 1840's in which 1,000,000 Irish Catholic peasants starved to death, the 1916 rebellion and the discrimination against the Catholics. The Battle of Boyne was a turning point for Ireland. The hopes of James and the Irish ...
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"Why were British Troops sent into Northern Ireland in 1969?"
... Catholics in Northern Ireland were a disadvantaged minority in matters of employment, housing, education, cultural and political participation. In 1968 a civil rights movement emerged to protest against discrimination, often provoking violent reactions within the protestant community. One ...
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"Why were Ulster Unionists so determined to resist home rule for Ireland in the period 1895 - 1914?"
... and if Home Rule was passed the Ulstermen believed that the out numbered Protestants would suffer at the hands of Catholics. Ulster relied on its increased number of Protestants, which were brought together by the First Home Rule Bill (Presbyterians ...
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“Why has it proved so difficult to reach agreement about what happened on Bloody Sunday? Use the sources and your knowledge to explain your answer.”
... prejudice, was angry. Although the most prominent, the Bloody Sunday march was not the first protesting march against internment. A week prior to the events of Bloody Sunday, an anti-internment march was held at Milligan Strand, County Derry. This march ...
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'Across the Barricades' is a novel written by Joan Lingard.
... the violence and so leave. Kevin and Sadie realize that 'The Troubles' aren't going to go away and that there's no hope for change in the future. In this paragraph the importance of the characters will be discussed. Kevin McCoy is ...
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'Bloody Sunday' 30 January 1972 - source related study.
... Famine more Irish became Nationalists and began to demand Home Rule. This was the right to govern themselves by having their own Parliament in Ireland. This could have made the English upset because before Ireland was governed by the English ...
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'Even if the Saville Enquiry does find out the truth about what happened on Bloody Sunday, why are Protestants and Catholics so firmly set in their views that there will be people in northern Ireland who will not accept the Enquiries finding'
... 1972. The English government allowed the march to carry on, however they put up 27 barricades to stop them marching into central Derry and into more protestant areas. Ironically the majority catholic area 'Bogside' was the place where they marched. ...
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'To what extent did Protestant support for an independent Ireland change in the period 1798 - 1921?'
... struggle for an independent Ireland though we can see that this is not altogether true as Theobald Wolf Tone was as Pelling said the 'father of separatist Irish Nationalism', though he was 'Protestant' lawyer based in the North. Many historians ...
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'What has the Belfast Agreement of Good Friday, 10 April 1998, achieved?'
... European Convention of Human Rights, thus protecting the rights of the minorities3 previously unseen in other agreements. Though it could be argued that this system favours group rights at the expense of 'individual' right and is guilty of entrenching sectarism ...
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(Q1) What Are The Main Differences of Beliefs Between Nationalists/Republicans and Unionists/Loyalists
... The distrust in the Governments has increased due to events such as Bloody Sunday where the British Army murdered fourteen Catholics. The main political are obviously the Nationalists and Unionists. The Unionist parties oppose the involvement of the Irish Republic in ...
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1. Why did the IRB and the ICA continue with the uprising despite the certain knowledge that the British Government knew of their plans?
... They were willing to kill and be killed for this very purpose. "Ireland will not find Christ's peace until she has taken Christ's sword" There were other reasons why the rebels carried on with the rebellion. They believed that they still had ...
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A background to the violence in Northern Ireland
... rebellion and they pushed through the Catholic Emancipation Act that granted full legal equality to Catholics. Although this gave Catholics full political rights in the Protestant dominated British parliament, Catholics were in the minority. The Orange Order was a semi-secret ...
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A Comparison of Across the Barricades and A Shadow of a Gunman
... day-to-day activities. The two plays have a different style of giving information to the audience, for example in Across the Barricades the two main characters, Kevin and Sadie, performed soliloquies to give information about characters and past events, this gives the ...
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A modern world study – Northern Ireland
... there was anti-catholic prejudice in Northern Ireland although they all do have similar patterns. According to source B, which is based on a census, Roman Catholics than by Protestants experience unemployment at a higher level. This might not mean they ...
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A Reflection on the Films
... Devries had a rubber plantation which symbolized the constant sucking of the colony's resources for the sake of France. A cut had to be done every time you want to harvest rubber from the tree, which symbolizes the constant and ...
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Across the barricades.
... been to Ireland and expeirenced the life that people live there or anything like that then you will find more adaptable to the setting. Joan relates to a teenagers point of life quite alot so this may also help if ...