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Northern Ireland since 1960

From source A, amongst the first line of the text, it says, "Catholics

regularly suspected anti-catholic prejudice among foremen or personnel

managers". Out of the 10,000 workers in the Belfast shipyard which was

the biggest source of employment in the city, only 400 of the workers

here were Catholics. This shows a massive minority of jobs went to

Catholics. The Fermanagh County Council itself employed 370 people:

Protestants filled 322 of the posts, including the tops ones, the rest

Catholics. Out of the 75 school bus drivers in Fermanagh, all but

seven were Protestant. This was very surprising considering that the

population of Fermanagh was more than half Catholic. Because of

Gerrymandering in the area of Northern Ireland, a lot of aspects of

the running of the city were made by Protestants. For example in the

County Council of Fermanagh, the number of Catholics was kept minimal.

I think this was so that the Catholic population did not have any

chance at all to over run the Protestants. Doing it this way

Protestants stayed in control of Northern Ireland. This information

possibly could be biased as it was from a British Newspaper- "The

Sunday Times". This means that because it was British and possible

biased, the numbers may have been exaggerated in the aspect that it

could have been far more Catholics employed. From the evidence I have,

this proves the disadvantages faced by Catholics, and shows how hard

it was for a Catholic to be able to get any jobs, which were

predominately taken by Protestants. This did not only apply to

Catholics in the rural areas, urban areas were too at risk of the

gerrymandering (boundary fixing) and as a result Catholics would be

discriminated wherever they lived in Ireland.

2. Study sources B and C. How useful are these sources in helping to

assess the extent of discriminations against Catholics?

From source B, this shows a clear discrimination on religion and jobs.

Billy Sinclair is speaking about how the football clubs chose their

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