Northern Ireland peace process

In this essay I will argue that religion is not inherently violent, it is in the nature of the people to be violent. I will do this by showing, through various case studies such as the Caribbean and de la Casas and the troubles in Northern Ireland. I will also use the Holocaust as a case because even though it may not have been religiously motivated, it is still grounded in the context of religion. These will help to further my view that it is the people who are violent because I will show that…

The events that took place during the 1649 re-conquest of Ireland are perhaps some of the most controversial in Irish history. Popular history tells us that Oliver Cromwell was a genocidal maniac who led an army with the aim of wiping out the Irish population. Consequently, the name Oliver Cromwell still brings out negative emotions in Ireland today. Cromwell went to Ireland with the aim of seeking the loyalty of the population to the Westminster Parliament. Attacks on towns such as Drogheda…

to the condition Ireland was in. As a country that was making major profit from the potato and supplying to many, Britain should of naturally supplied a lot of resources in order to continue that economic growth. However, Britain believed that the Irish were lazy because of the success of the potato. So much hatred that they created a generalized persona of how Irish citizens act. (lazy,angry and stubborn) This led to Britain trying to justify their reason for abandoning Ireland as a way of…

liberate Northern Ireland from the UK and to join with the Irish republic. They carried out many bombings during a period colloquially known as the Troubles. Their prime target was members of the British Army and officers of the Irish national police force. They fought a guerrilla warfare against the army and police, rarely confronting them “head on” but using surprise attacks and car bombs. The IRA was an incredibly strong and brutal paramilitary group vying for an Independent Northern Ireland…

Finally, Irish Catholics in Toronto were not completely without support, since Quebec embraced Irish Catholic culture through the dominance of Catholic cultural ideology amongst the Francophone population. This type of political, social, and economic support defined one reason why the Catholic Irish in Toronto was alienated, yet not without some resources to countermand the sectarian oppression of the Orange Order: In time the appearance and plight of these faminites became a lens through which…

when the British Empire had conquered Ireland and Scotland. This forced the inhabitants of both countries to give up their customs and traditions to conform to the British Monarchy for almost 1000 years. Both countries continuously fought the Kingdom of England between the early 14th to the 18th century, to liberate their beloved homeland from British reign and regain their independence and identity. A historical grudge still resonates today in Northern Ireland. Political agenda is an important…

most people think of Ireland, they picture rolling hills, green valleys, shamrocks, leprechauns and rainbows with the pot of gold at the end. The reality is that Ireland has been torn by religion, terrorism, civil wars and British rule. Irish conflict with the English dates from the twelfth century and the Norman invasion to the division of land we see in the Northern and Southern parts of Ireland based on religious differences and years of British rule. The people of Ireland wanted a change;…

As someone who is primarily Scotch Irish, I speak for myself and many other Americans in believing that the First Scottish War of Independence had a large impact in the lives of our ancestors. At the finale of this war was the Battle of Bannockburn, an extraordinary battle and victory for the underdog in numbers, Scotland, a country protecting its land from the massive power that was England. The historical significance of the battle is what keeps it alive to this day in Scotland. This past…

Originally the leaders of the Easter Rising assumed that everyone in southern Ireland were utterly against British rule, this was not true. Even in Dublin, many people relied on the British for work- whether they liked it or not. However, England’s harsh response to the uprising led many to sympathize with the movement. Not to mention…

Irish Independence. The IRA of the early 1900s “fought an insurgency that successfully challenged British rule in the whole of Ireland” (Gregory, 2010), this challenge resulted in an agreement granting Irish Independence in 1921. Independence was agreed upon with a caveat that the 6 northern counties be retained by the British. This agreement resulted in uneasy peace through 1969 when IRA leadership in Belfast split with their Dublin counterparts and adopted a policy of catalytic violence for…