Northern Ireland Research Paper

"Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions" ( ). The History of Northern Ireland and the IRA is a history of oppression responded by terrorism, where there is no clear line between morally righteous actions, and violent atrocities. Both the Irish Republican Catholics and the British/Irish Loyalist Protestants had fought each other for generations before the troubles (Name given to this period) began, since the annexation of Ireland (Tools 94). When Ireland became an independent nation is when the Issue of the mostly British held Northern Ireland became to unravel. The IRA was a response of intimidation and mistreatment by the Protestant Northern Irish government, as a means of fighting back. The reality became …show more content…
The British annexation of Ireland occurred during the reign of Henry the 2nd in the 12th century, when the Unified English king invaded the conflicting warlords who were trying to govern Ireland (Ireland). Additionally, this unfortunately gave Ireland the distinction of being the first colony of England, and thus the country was ruled by English kings for centuries. The significant event that created even more tension between England and Ireland was the split between England and the Catholic Church. Occurring during the reign of Henry 8th, England and the Catholic Church split causing England to become the Protestant Anglican, Ireland on the other hand remained Catholic (Ireland). It could be argued that Ireland remained catholic to go against England, specifically the Anglican sect since the English king was the head of the church. This fundamental difference in religious made England to view Ireland as more of a threat than before, creating more tension between the colony and nation. This all leads to the modern era where the Irish war of Independence finally allowed Ireland to be independent in 1922 after three years of fighting (Ireland). While this allowed most of the nation to become free, in the Northern part of Ireland they remained loyal to England. This became the modern legacy of the tension between Ireland and England, a small Catholic …show more content…
The North Irish Government was a bigoted one, similar to the American South in the 1950s, and the Apartheid government in South Africa they the government let public policy be to condemn a certain group of people, in this case Catholic. As stated in the Book Making Sense of the Troubles the story of the conflict in Northern Ireland by David McKittrick and David Mcvea, “the Unionist establishment, which was to run the state on the basis of Protestant majority rule for the following half-century, actively discriminated against Catholics in the allocations of jobs and housing, over political rights and in other areas” (Mckittirck 4). Again this was similar to other nations at the time making the Irish minority another discriminated group in their own country. This all lead up to the 1960s where there was a civil rights campaign to combat the institutionalized decriminalized by the Protestant government, it was in fact influenced by Martin Luther King and the black civil rights movement in the United States (Mckittrick 39). Unlike the United States where for the most part helped the Black cause and civil rights, in Ireland it gave birth to the violence that would come, the peaceful protests would fail. In Londonderry 5 October 1968 a peaceful march was attacked, the local police overreacted and started

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