Northern Ireland

1515 Words4 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Ireland a nation divided

Northern Ireland

(1) Source C reflects the Good Friday agreement being put into action,

firstly the IRA has shown real attempts to make the agreement work.

The decommissioning of weapons is a major breakthrough, not only are

they showing that they no longer want to take part in violent

republican attacks, but that they are willing to give the peace

process a try. However this could be argued, it is clear in source C

that the IRA have only "...Put a quantity of arms completely beyond

use." This hints that the IRA hasn't fully agreed to the peace process

and that there could be further violence in the future. Plus one of

the main reasons the IRA could have decommissioned weapons is not

because they want peace, but because of the pressures of September 11;

for example, "[some] believe their decision was hastened by the arrest

of three IRA suspects in Colombia. Another key point about this source

is that David Trimble may retake seats at Stormont, this is

significant because it means that devolution can take place and that

both unionists and nationalists can share the power over Northern

Ireland.

(2) Why has it been so hard in the past to find an agreement?

There have been many attempts by both the Unionists and Nationalists

to find peace however neither group has ever wanted to reform. This

has been due to the different attitudes surrounding the two

communities; firstly most Nationalists want Ireland to be united yet

most Unionists want Northern Ireland to stay part of Great Britain.

Unfortunately these strong attitudes have made a compromise very hard

to find. Since the partition of Ireland in 1921 the Nationalists have

suffered severe discrimination; they were largely excluded from

politics and many could not get jobs. This discrimination has led to

ongoing violence in the province, between 1969 and 1999 there have

been over 3,200 deaths and 38,000 people injured as a result of this

violence.

Throughout the first half of 1969 there were many civil rights

Show More
Related

  • Apush Dbq Irish Relations Case Study

    659 Words  | 2 Pages

    “Ireland must be governed in the English interest” as Document 1 states. The Irish and English relationship is one of ethnic superiority over the other and geographical divide. The English feel like it is their duty to make the Irish people like themselves and they believe that their religion is the crux of what makes them inferior and the Irish just want to be left alone. The geographical divide between the nations is the mainly protestant, Ulster, and the Catholic rest of the island as Document 9 suggests. This has caused many disputes because of the fact that Irish Nationalists want the whole island unified.

    Read More

  • The Nature of the Irish Nationalism was Changed by the Act of Union in 1800

    1386 Words  | 3 Pages

    The Act of Union in 1800 was a significant factor to the nature of Irish nationalism in 1800. Prior to the Act, the society of the united Irishmen, a republican society who wanted parliamentary reform and Catholic Emancipation, fought, under the leadership of Robert Emmet, with physical force for their complete independence. Because of their military strand they differed from their predecessors the ‘Protestant Patriots’, this is because the society was heavily influenced by revolutionary events in France and New America in the late 18th century. The rebellion, although unsuccessful, with its leader imprisoned, had major consequential effects; which was the passing of the Act of Union in 1800. The Act set the tone for the rest of Irish history; once emancipation failed to materialize directly after the union, the Catholic issue began to dominate both Irish and English politics.

    Read More

  • Herland

    496 Words  | 1 Pages

    The novel is described as a feminist novel. Yet, this is not exactly acurate. The absence of men in the utopian society may seem extreme to some, and it is. This is how Gilman makes her point. She does not create a world without men because men are terrible creatures who have corrupted the world. The utopia which lacks men is a clean peaceful place, which surpasses in almost every way the competitive societies that we live in. But, it is neither the absence of men nor the presence of women that makes this to be the case. Gender, in this novel, is symbolic for the most part. Gilman does separate the two genders to destroy stereo types, but also to establish a concrete difference between the two worlds. The male world is not bad, and the female good is not good. The world in which people are defined by others and limited is bad, while the world in which people are free to grow without being defined or compared to others, and are able to see the unity of all people is good. Comparing Herland to the real world, Gilman begins destroying gender based stereotypes. Because there are no distinctions of gender in Herland, nor any superficial characteristics which accompany gender, Herland women take on the roles of all people without considering any limitations. These women are strong, agile, nurturing, intelligent, cooperative, and able to rely on themselves. They are not "typical" females. As Gilman explains through the male character Van, "Those 'feminine charms' we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process" (p59). In the same way, stereotypes about men can be thrown up as well. Gilman shows the reader that if people stop basing their identities on what others want, they will no longer be slaves to limitations. They will be free to discover their true selves and will allow others to do the same. Gilman shows readers that men and women are distinct people, but reminds us that they are people first. This can be seen when one of women of Herland named Somel, questions the men by saying, "But surely there are characteristics enough which belong to People, aren't there?

    Read More

  • Was the Cold War Truly a Cold War?

    1478 Words  | 3 Pages

    Thompson, William R and Rasler, Karen A., ‘War and Systemic Capability Reconcentration’ The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 32, 2, 1988, p. 337

    Read More

  • British Irish Relations over the past 300 years

    1233 Words  | 3 Pages

    British- Irish relations over the past three hundred years have been troubled. There have been many tensions caused by religion in Northern Ireland and Britain's unfair rule of Northern Ireland. The British are guilty of many of the indignities suffered by the Irish people. They are also guilty of causing all of the religious and territorial conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

    Read More

  • The Northern Ireland Marching Season

    2321 Words  | 5 Pages

    Direct rule from Westminster has been re-instated and power now lies again with the British Northern Ireland Secretary. The path to peace is still nowhere near completed. The reason I think for this are the above reasons but I think most importantly is trust, or the lack of it. None of the groups appear to be able to trust each other and unless something drastic happens, they are not going to be able to trust each other in the near future each other.

    Read More

  • Protestant Propaganda

    1046 Words  | 3 Pages

    What do you think of when you hear the name Ireland? Ireland is a relatively small island off the coast of Great Britain with a land area of 32,424 square miles (Delaney 2). There are several things that you may associate with this country such as St. Patrick’s Day, shamrocks, beer, and strife. The source of the bitterness behind this conflict began centuries ago, when Britain came over and forced Protestantism on the Irish Catholic inhabitants. For this reason there has always been an animosity between the Protestants and the Irish Catholics. The island is broken up into two distinct regions. The Republic of Ireland consists of twenty-six counties, which make up the southern region. This area is predominantly Roman Catholic. Northern Ireland is made up of the six northern counties, which are under British rule and predominately Protestant. Both sides use propaganda to spread their ideas and gain support. They each have organizations, such as the I.R.A., in the south, and the U.V.F., in the north, which use peaceful methods such as newspapers and murals along with violence to fight for their cause. In Northern Ireland the Protestants used their position in the government to spread anti-Catholic propaganda and persecute the Catholic citizens.

    Read More

  • Nova Scotia

    2908 Words  | 6 Pages

    provinces of Canada, bordered on the north by the Bay of Fundy, the province of

    Read More

  • Building of the six psychiatric hospitals in Northern Ireland was completed by 1898

    1688 Words  | 4 Pages

    First off, it is important to understand the political and social whereabouts of Northern Ireland from 1898 to gage the changes that have been made in policy. Before 1921, the North and South of Ireland were under British rule. When the government of Ireland Act 1920 partitioned the island of Ireland into two separate states, Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, the North of Ireland remained under British rule while...

    Read More

  • Northern Ireland

    1475 Words  | 3 Pages

    The Irish and British governments fought for many years over the ownership of Northern Ireland. Britain had main control over Northern Ireland, and Ireland did not think that was fair. Be...

    Read More

  • Was the Irish Civil War a ?natural? conclusion to the events of previous years?

    1138 Words  | 3 Pages

    As we see with history, it was almost inevitable that Ireland would experience civil war once she achieved ‘independence’. However, it was not just the history of other countries which dictated this, but also her own. When one person dies they leave behind a hundred mourners. As we can see by the strong words of Mary MacSweeny many of the families of Irish ‘martyrs’ wanted to see their deaths avenged. This was a strong force behind the Civil War and saw it as a ‘natural’ conclusion to previous years. There were also many rifts within the IRA prior to the Treaty and once they had no common enemy they were prone to fight themselves. With all this evidence pointing to the Civil War’s ‘natural’ occurrence it is hard to see how it could not have happened.

    Read More

  • Ripe Moments and Mutually Hurting Stalemates

    3025 Words  | 7 Pages

    Many theorists have tried to explain how any why conflicts end. Some theories have proven to be more successful than others. It is difficult to create a theory that applies to all conflicts because each conflict is different. Conflicts can be ethnic and religious based or they can be about resources and territories. William Zartman advocates a theory of ripeness and mutually hurting stalemates to explain how and why conflict have ended. Throughout this essay his theory will be analyze through the conflicts in Northern Ireland, Cambodia and the Oslo agreement. Through these three conflicts the strengths and weaknesses of ripeness theory can be seen

    Read More

  • Catholic Conservatism

    893 Words  | 2 Pages

    When someone or a group of people see there is a problem they must accept the challenge to try and make a change. As Edmund Burke stated “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”. Step one to make a change is to refuse the status quo so do not just keep following the same old rules because that is how it has always been. The second step is to create a vision, Ireland looked at her laws and her residents and saw several they wanted to change. Therefore the leaders showed the rest of the country which laws/beliefs they were and why they needed to be changed.

    Read More

  • What Are the Causes of Ethnic Conflict?

    2013 Words  | 5 Pages

    White, Robert W; White, Terry Falkenberg. “Repression and the Liberal State: The Case of Northern Ireland, 1969-1972”. The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Jun.,

    Read More

  • Ireland

    554 Words  | 2 Pages

    The capital of Ireland is Dublin. Their flag is divided into three equal parts of green, white, and orange. Their population is 4,109,086 (July 2007 est.). The official languages of Ireland are English and Irish, also known as Irish Gaelic. %100 of the population speak English with about %80 speaking Gaelic.

    Read More

More about Northern Ireland

Open Document