The Social, Economic and Political Differences Between Catholics and Protestants
Protestant politicians tried to explain the differences between
Catholics and Protestants in terms of political, religious and
cultural differences. Politicians like Ian Paisley had very extreme
views on why these differences existed. Whilst others, like Terence
O’Neill, who was a Protestant, were willing to improve things for the
Catholics.
Many Protestant politicians thought that local elections were carried
out fairly, and that the Catholics did not face any political
discrimination, which was hardly thetrue situation. The fact that some
Nationalist councillors were elected was used as proof of this. Ian
Paisley thought differently, he thought that Catholics were not
interested in the politics as their loyalty was with Rome and with
their Head of Church, the Pope. He thought therefore that they could
never be loyal to the government of Ulster; he therefore labelled them
as ‘traitors’. Gerrymandering was done to stop these so-called
traitors from entering local councils where they would probably betray
the people of Ulster. It was also believed that if Catholics had a
greater voice in politics they would make their own laws similar to
those in the Republic. This had happened before in the South when for
example, divorce was banned in 1925. A source tells us how much the
Catholic Church interfered. The source is that of Stanley Mawhiinney,
in Darkest Ireland, European Missionary Fellowship and it states that
“the Roman Catholic Church is undoubtedly the government force in Eire
today..” Not all politicians felt this way, Terrence O’Neill, for
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... Catholics had not been discriminated against, and treated so badly,
there would not have been the Civil Rights protests, which often led
to, and ended in violence. Violence was a major reason why troops were
sent in. Thirdly are the Civil Rights marches, which led to the
violence, and were the final, main, contributing factor to why the
troops were sent in. The British troops were sent in because of all
the factors in this essay, but most of these factors would not have
existed if Ireland had not been partitioned in 1921, which led to both
sides fighting each other to try and get what they wanted. The
partition also allowed for there to be discrimination by the
Protestants against the Catholics in Northern Ireland as the Catholics
were in the minority and could easily be controlled by the large
number of Protestants.
Document 4 says, “The curse of the Popery, with its degrading idolatry and corrupting priesthood, is the root of Irelands misery.” The English Presbyterian that states this represents what the English people thought of the Irish. The Irish were not as developed as the English and the English did go in and industrialize in certain areas such as Ulster and parts of Dublin. Even though Ireland did gain wealth as Document 5 states, most of the money stayed within the Protestant population that came from England and Scotland. Document 5 blames it on the Irish character and the in general stupidity of the Irish people. The English also felt that if the Irish were given “Home Rule” then they would persecute against the Protestants in the north. Document 7 says that the worst people of Ireland (Catholics) will be under control of the best people of Ireland (Protestants). Eventually this was resolved when Ulster stayed a part of the United Kingdom. The Irish Catholics partially got
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